Manufacturing

Automakers race to Mexico as rising quality spurs factory gold rush

A Volkswagen Beetle rolls along the production line at the company's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico. Volkswagen has produced cars in Mexico since 1967, and the VW Group's Audi unit will open the country's first luxury assembly plant by 2016. (BLOOMBERG)
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By:
Brendan Case Alan Ohnsman Craig Trudell
November 17, 2012 05:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s plan to source cars from Mazda Motor Corp.'s Mexican plant starting in 2015 highlights global automakers' growing reliance on the Latin American nation for quality production as well as lower costs.

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