SAIC Motor, which operates joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen posted a 400% rise to 18,000 sales of its own-brand passenger cars in the first quarter of this year. SAIC also makes MG and Roewe cars after acquiring brands and technology from the defunct British MG Rover group four years ago. It launched two new models in Shaghai today.
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The Volkswagen Routan minivan, which arrived in showrooms in September, is selling so slowly that no units have rolled off the assembly line since December. VW has not decided whether to build a second-generation Routan.
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Bernd Pischetsrieder, ex-CEO of Volkswagen, could be a suitable head of a new Opel company independent of U.S. parent General Motors, an Opel dealer group in Germany said.
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Bernd Pischetsrieder, ex-CEO of Volkswagen, could be a suitable head of a new Opel company independent of U.S. parent General Motors, an Opel dealer group in Germany said.
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The popular and recently redesigned Volkswagen Golf has lost its stranglehold as Europe's most popular model, handing the accolade to Ford's new Fiesta, according to JATO Dynamics' analysis of March European new car sales.
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Ford's new Fiesta small car outsold the Volkswagen Golf to become Europe's most popular model in March. Helped by scrappage incentives, the Fiesta had its best March sales in Germany since 1998.
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Volkswagen may have become the world's top selling automaker in the first quarter of 2009, ahead of Toyota, according to a media report on Friday.
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Volkswagen group may have overtaken Toyota Motor to become the world's top-selling carmaker in the first quarter, thanks to government incentives that fuelled demand in VW's major markets.
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Volkswagen group may have passed Toyota Motor Corp as the world's top selling automaker in the first quarter, helped by robust demand in its main markets, while its Japanese rival suffered sharp declines, partial company data suggests.
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Volkswagen group may have overtaken Toyota Motor to become the world's top-selling carmaker in the first quarter, thanks to government incentives that fuelled demand in VW's major markets.
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Consumers looking for a four-seat convertible around $30,000 have plenty of options. Nearly a dozen models are available on the market, all producing 200 horsepower or so. The Ford Mustang V6, Pontiac G6, Mitsubishi Eclipse and Toyota Solara are just a few examples.
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At the 24-Hour Race on the Nürburgring on 23/24 May, Volkswagen will field two Scirocco cars with innovative natural gas engines. Following the historic one-two victory at the Dakar Rally in January, which Volkswagen won as the first automobile manufacturer using diesel technology in the event, the Wolfsburg brand is now taking on another technical challenge - the use of EcoFuel engines in the endurance test twice around the clock on the world's most demanding race track.
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Paris/Wolfsburg, 16 April 2009 - Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, was named "Man of the Year 2008" by a jury of 38 representatives from France's most eminent media in Paris on Thursday.
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Volkswagen expects China to overtake Germany as its biggest market this year.
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The European Commission has not ruled stepping up legal action against Germany over a law that has shielded Volkswagen from takeover, a Commission official said on Wednesday.
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The European Commission is keeping the door open to stepping up legal action against Germany over a law that has shielded Volkswagen from takeover, a Commission official said.
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Volkswagen has said that it sold a record number of cars in mainland China and Hong Kong in the month of March, as demand for its products boomed amid official measures to encourage the new car market there.
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Volkswagen today said it will boost production in China after its sales in the country increased by 9 percent in March. VW said it sold 112,466 vehicles in China, up from 103,204 units in March 2008.
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Volkswagen today said it will boost production in China after its sales in the country increased by 9 percent in March. VW said it sold 112,466 vehicles in China, up from 103,204 units in March 2008.
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