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Last week,
Porsche announced production plans for its upcoming Cajun sport-ute at its Leipzig plant in Germany. Now, sister-company
Seat is following suit with preparations to build the
Audi Q3 at its facility (pictured above) in Martorell on the outskirts of Barcelona.
If you're wondering what
Audi has to do with Seat, allow us to fill in the blanks. Most essentially, the two are sister brands fall under the larger
Volkswagen Group umbrella. Seat's flagship
Exeo is essentially a re-bodied version of the previous-generation Audi A4. And when Audi was looking for the right place to build its upcoming Q3 compact crossover, it turned to the Spanish subsidiary.
In preparation for Q3 prduction to start, Seat is hiring over 700 new employees. Overall the company has undertaken the training of 1,200 new personnel, and if production requirements demand, could hire some or all of the remaining 500.
Hit the jump for the full details in the press release.
[Source: Seat]
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