Word: volkswagen
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...cars? One possible clue is the renewed popularity of imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel saving and weight reduction. For example, front-wheel-drive systems already are standard equipment on many Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat and Honda subcompacts. Thus, if the nation's consumers do not like the new cars that Detroit produces, they will have somewhere...
When Toni Schmücker became chief executive of Volkswagen werk A.G. in February 1975, a reporter asked him what he thought of his new office. "Great!" replied Schmücker. "Great rugs, great pictures, a great many workers and great losses." It was an accurate description at the time, but since then Volkswagen has turned around sharply enough to enhance Schmücker's growing reputation as the Herr Fix-It of German industry. Two weeks ago, Schmücker, 56, reported that in 1976 the company had cleared a profit of $425 million, which, with tax credits...
Look across the street. Do you see that girl's Volkswagen bumper sticker: Make Love Not War. That is certainly the motto of the age. Is there anything wrong with...
...there or we will put sauerkraut in the gas tank of your Volkswagen. Und to not think we are kidding...
...Volvo announced that it would become the first foreign auto manufacturer to build an assembly plant in the U.S.A site had been selected at Chesapeake, Va., to start production in the spring of 1977. But with that deadline at hand, Volvo has postponed start-up indefinitely, leaving Volkswagen as the only foreign carmaker with firm plans to assemble in the U.S., beginning in early...