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VW in chattanooga!
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That's a home run! They have been trying to sell Enterprise South for a long time. There should be Champagne corks popping.
There were major environmental issues about building on the old Volunteer TNT plant. I hope they didn't give away the farm. Should be interesting to watch.
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Great news for East Tennessee!!!
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official press release is airing at 11:30 a.m.
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Glad they are coming, too bad they said they will have a deal going with the UAW though.....
 We want VW here, but we do not want any part of the UAW in this city.I wonder how many new engineers they will hire? I might consider going to VW for the right price.
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Bad news for North Alabama.........the local politicians were way too confident last week that VW was coming to Huntsville/Madison area.
Congrat's to Chattanooga!
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Of course, most of the cars built there will be missing a few pieces of their grills...
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Bob "the builder" Corker shoots & scores. The word is that he was the driving force on this.
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Oh man, great news for East Tennessee!!! Chatanooga is a great town! much more on the ball than Knoxville as a whole...downtown Chatanooga is really fun.
may need to check into a job @ VW ;-)
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And while VW expands, GM announces today they will stop production of the Hummer line. While it will really put a damper on the local GM plant, the "poser-mobile" was a bad idea (they were even tooling up for an H3 pickup to begin prduction soon).
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I am a manufacturing/quality engineer so there might be something there for me. (Odd but it seems everyone I went to school with works in disciplines so far from what we were best at in college.  ) But I like where I am at now so it's all good. 
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They recently opened a huge Hummer dealership here in Sacramento; those guys have to be crying in their beer right now...
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