Brazil's 1956 Development Plan designated what city as the site of the country's foreign-led automobile industry beginning with Volkswagen?

(A) Belo Horizonte

(B) Curitiba

(C) São Paulo

(D) Rio de Janeiro

Answer: (C) São Paulo.

Explanation:

The 1956 Development Plan assigned greater Sao Paulo as the most suitable place for Brazil's first car assembly facility, developed by Volkswagen. This would also be the first Volkswagen's plant away from Germany. After one year, the Volkswagen plant in São Bernardo do Campo, close to São Paulo, was finished and it began the production of the Kombi model.