- The Volkswagen Group plans to open seven new plants in China in the years to come, one more than originally planned. In total, nineteen plants will therefore be available for the Volkswagen group production in 2018. In addition, the group plans to build three more plants in the world (India, Russia, Mexico), including two Audi ones. Currently, the Volkswagen Group benefits from 100 plants worldwide.

- The construction of seven new plants should allow the Volkswagen Group to achieve its goal to increase its production in China by half by 2018, to 4 million vehicles (against 2.63 million in 2012).

- The first three new plants in China - Urumqi, Foshan and Ningbo- should be operational by the end of 2013. The following three ones should open between late 2014 and late 2015. The seventh one should be operational by the end of 2016. The seven plants will each have a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year (1.4 million in total).

- Thanks to these new plants, Volkswagen will increase its  production capacity to more than 4 million vehicles a year in China in 2018. Such a capacity exceeds the sales planned in China in the same year.

- Volkswagen group Chinese production accounted for 28% of its global production last year.

- The Western Europe imported vehicles in 2012 mainly from Eastern Europe (2.3 million units), which makes sense since this neighboring region is the main area of relocation of manufacturers located in Western Europe. The Western Europe has imported many vehicles from Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovenia.

- The Western Europe also imported in 2012, but in smaller quantities, vehicles from the NAFTA region (Canada, USA, Mexico: 336,000 units), South Korea (312,000 units), Japan (202,000 units) and India (159,000 units). Other countries (such as China or Russia) account for  much less vehicles.

- Imports from Eastern Europe represent 70% of total imports of Western Europe. The total of imports from all countries to Western Europe represent 28.5% of the registrations in Western Europe (71.5% of sales come from plants located in Western Europe).