LAST AUTO NEWS – SO MUCH FOR THE ROUTAN BOOM
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Canada’s Windsor Star letters that Volkswagen has asked Chrysler to stop architecture the VW Routan — the minivan Chrysler builds for the German company, “in adjustment to abate inventory.” The Routan is congenital at a Chrysler-owned bulb in Windsor, Ontario. A letter to associates acquaint on the website of the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union “said VW had asked Chrysler for a ‘no build’ ages ‘in adjustment to acclimatize their inventory,” admonishing workers that layoffs may be coming. “Sales are apathetic beyond the lath and VW is no different,’ the letter read.
Kicking Tires reports, “An estimated 29,000 Routan vans accept been broadcast to VW dealers, and alone a few thousand accept sold.”
It’s not difficult to accept why. The Routan, as the New York Times explains, “Is alone a rebadged, hardly rebodied, agilely retuned Chrysler minivan. Volkswagen afflicted alone the exoteric lights, rear glass, foreground grille, baddest locations of the autogenous and some settings for the abeyance and steering.”
But the Routan is added big-ticket than a similarly-equipped Dodge Grand Caravan, or even the Toyota Sienna – our 2009 Best Minivan for the Money.
Although, with so abounding Routans growing dried on banker lots, we’re accommodating to bet you could accommodate a abundant amount on one. You know, if you’re one of those humans accepting a babyish for Chrysler-engineering.
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