Volkswagen | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen


00:00:44 1 History
00:00:53 1.1 1932–1938: People's Car project
00:07:13 1.2 1945–1948: British Army intervention, unclear future
00:12:41 1.3 1948–1961: Icon of post war West Germany
00:19:03 1.4 1961–1973: Beetle to Golf
00:25:59 1.5 1974–1990: Product line expansion
00:30:53 1.6 1991–1999
00:32:50 1.7 2000–2016: Further expansion
00:40:16 1.8 2017–present: Focus on electric vehicles
00:42:01 2 Operations
00:43:30 2.1 Worldwide presence
00:45:01 2.2 Work–life balance
00:45:45 2.3 Relationship with Porsche and the Volkswagen Law
00:51:35 2.4 AutoMuseum
00:52:16 2.5 Global sales figures, 2006–2018
00:52:28 3 Current models
00:52:37 3.1 Chinese models
00:52:54 3.2 GTI models
00:53:03 3.3 Electric models
00:53:12 3.3.1 GTE models
00:53:32 3.3.2 e-models
00:53:45 3.4 R models
00:53:58 4 Historic models
00:54:07 5 Electric and alternative fuel vehicles
00:54:19 5.1 Pure ethanol vehicles
00:56:20 5.2 Flexible-fuel vehicles
00:58:37 5.3 Hybrid vehicles
01:00:30 5.4 Plug-in electric vehicles
01:03:21 6 Controversy
01:03:30 6.1 Environmental record
01:05:40 6.1.1 Diesel emission fraud
01:11:39 6.2 Collaboration with dictatorship
01:12:19 7 Awards
01:13:07 8 Motorsport
01:13:16 8.1 Formula racing
01:14:34 8.2 World Rally Championship
01:15:23 8.3 Dakar Rally
01:16:18 8.4 Volkswagen motorsport worldwide
01:19:08 9 Literature
01:20:46 10 See also



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Volkswagen (German: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡn̩] (listen); English: ), shortened to VW (German: [faʊ̯ ˈveː]), is a German automaker founded on 28 May 1937 by the German Labour Front, a Nazi labour union, and headquartered in Wolfsburg. It is the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group, the largest automaker by worldwide sales in 2016 and 2017. The group's biggest market is in China, which delivers 40% of its sales and profits.Volkswagen translates to "people's car" in German. The company's current international advertising slogan is just "Volkswagen", referencing the name's meaning.