Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly

Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly was a manufacturing complex located 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near New Stanton — and noted for manufacturing 1.15 million Volkswagens from 1978 until 1987. When VWoA began manufacturing in the unfinished Chrysler plant, it became the first foreign automobile company to build cars in the US since Rolls-Royce manufactured cars in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1921 to 1931.
The factory manufactured a range of fuel-efficient small cars with gasoline and diesel engines, all variants of Volkswagen's Golf: the Rabbit ; Rabbit GTI ; Rabbit Pickup ; the Golf Mk2 and GTI and the Jetta . Built with the largest incentive package the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had ever offered, the factory had an estimated annual capacity of 240,000 cars, and reached production of 200,000 in 1980. Engines and drivetrains for Westmoreland production were sourced from Germany. Employment, projected at 20,000, reached its highest level in mid-1981 at 6,000 and by 1984 had dropped to 1,500.

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