Volkswagen is looking to over over three times as many cars as they do today in the US each year. Chattanooga, TN seems to be ground zero for this expansion. Information of the VW Chattanooga manufacturing plant have been found at VW GoA (Volkswagen Group of The States). This new car manufacturing facility will produce a new VW automobile designed specifically for the US market. Volkswagen is expected to invest $1 billion dollars into the economy creating 2,000 new jobs, and is expected to possess a 150,000 vehicle production capacity at this new plant. Production is currently expected to start in 2011 at this new American car plant. It’s been said that VW’s target is to triple their US consumer base within the next ten years.

You will no doubt have heard of NASCAR, but do you know what it means and how much do you know about it? In this short article I will give you a short history of NASCAR.

NASCAR is an acronym for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Amazingly, it was begun as a family business in 1947 by Bill France Sr. and is still family owned and family managed. It is by far the largest sanctioning business for stock car racing in the United States and the three largest racing series that it approves are: the Sprint Cup, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series. In deed, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,500 races at more than a 100 race tracks in thirty-nine states.

South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway is an egg shaped terror that has become known as the track too tough to tame. If thats true, David Pearson came pretty close–during his illustrious career, he posted 10 victories and 12 poles at Darlington. These are both records for one of NASCAR’s most unforgiving tracks. Pearson’s ability at Darlington bordered on the unreal, and he was able to follow the conventional wisdom about performing well there better than anyone. The old saying is that you need to race the track, not the other drivers, but that’s a lot easier said than done. Pearson, however, made it look easy.