
High ranking Volkswagen officials have confirmed that the company is planning to launch a third generation Golf Cabrio in spring of 2011. The announcement came during David McAllister's, Lower Saxony's Minister President and Volkswagen Supervisory Board member, visit at the Volkswagen site in Osnabr�ck on Friday.
Set up earlier this year on the former site of the Karmann holding company and integrating its know-how, the Osnabr�ck factory will initially employ a workforce of over 1,000, with plans to create a total of 1,800 jobs by the end of 2011.