Which used to be Smyrna, where Alec Issigonis was born. (For those who like useless information....)

Wikipedia is our friend - note the VW connection at the end.

"Alec Issigonis was born 18 November 1906, into the Greek cosmopolitan community of the Ottoman port Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey).. The son of Greek and German parents, he inherited British citizenship via his father and developed very "English" attitudes. His grandfather Demosthenis migrated to Smyrna from Paros in Greece in the 1830s and through the work he did for the British-built Smyrna-Aydin Railway managed to acquire British nationality. Demosthenis's son (Alec's father) Constantine Issigonis, was born, with British nationality, in Smyrna in 1872. Constantine studied in England. Alec's mother, Hulda Prokopp, could trace her origins back to Wurttemberg (now part of Germany). It was through his mother's kinships that Issigonis was a first cousin once removed to BMW (and more briefly Volkswagen) director Bernd Pischetsrieder."

Edited by Avant on 03/10/2019 at 15:48

Did the EU lend VW the funds for the move like they did for Ford and the Transit? Or is it only the UKs jobs they pay to export to non EU countries.

VW say the plant is in Turkey....but where is it really? :-)

I think Snakey is being humorous, it put a smile on my face.

You can't trust anything VW say !!!

I was trying a little bit of humour!