Volkswagen rethinking plan to move Golf production to Mexico

Delay to new EV platform, financial pressure and employee unrest could keep it at Wolfsburg

Volkswagen may cancel its plan to move Golf production to Mexico, Autocar has learned.
The news comes as the company reviews key elements of its global production strategy announced last year.
This is down to delays in the development its Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) for EVs, growing financial pressure and employee unrest.  
A decision to transfer production of the ICE Golf from its traditional home in Wolfsburg, Germany, to Puebla, Mexico, in 2027 was announced in December last year as part of a job security deal made with Volkswagen’s works council.
Simultaneously, Volkswagen confirmed its Wolfsburg manufacturing headquarters was to gain two EVs – the upcoming facelifted Volkswagen ID 3 and its Cupra Born sister – from the Zwickau factory, ensuring production capacity at the historic plant remained utilised.
However, Volkswagen’s supervisory board has now postponed its multi-year investm