Volkswagen

Volkswagen (pronunciation in German: [f:lks contaminavaκ]に] (hearing)) is a car manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Baja Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen is the original and most sold brand of the Volkswagen Group, the world's first automobile manufacturer in 2021.

Volkswagen also owns the German football club “VfL Wolfsburg”, the brands Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT and Škoda, as well as the truck manufacturer Scania and MAN.

Volkswagen means "people's car" in German. The company's international slogan was "Das Auto" ("The Car"), although due to the emissions scandal it sought to change its slogan to something humbler and less pretentious, so in early 2016 the slogan was simply changed to "Volkswagen".

Volkswagen in the last 25 years, has been involved in several fraud scandals, (very high-profile), in the automotive world. The first of them in 1996, with the "Lopez de Arriortua" and GM, where VW had to indemnify the American brand, for industrial counter-espionage of which the media gave a good account of it. Then in 2015, with the so-called "Dieselgate" also discovered in the United States, and that affects all brands of the VW Group, worldwide related to the false emissions of gases into the atmosphere through fraudulent devices mounted on their cars. In some states, as of November 2020, the VAG Group is still to be prosecuted, legally.

Volkswagen has three cars on the top 10 best-selling cars of all time list, namely the Golf, Beetle and Passat. This information can be found on the website called 24/7 Wall St. With these three cars, Volkswagen has more cars on the list of those still in production than any other manufacturer.

History

Factory Beginnings

The name Volkswagen is due to the fact that in Germany in the 1930s a project arose to build a car that was accessible to the greatest number of people. When Adolf Hitler rose to the expected power in 1933, he decided to launch a plan to promote the automobile industry, with the aim of relaunching its factories and making them more competitive compared to the English and French ones. In this way, a competition was launched for businessmen for the concession to manufacture the so-called people's car (Volkswagen). Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned to carry out the project whose aim was to build a simple and cheap vehicle that could be within the reach of most Germans.

Hitler intended to build the largest factory in Europe for the manufacture of the people's car. For this, the requirement was to have access to a navigable waterway. It was also necessary to have its own power plant, which would supply both the factory and the new city. Hitler chose the town of Fallersleben, on the banks of the Mittelland canal. Since the 14th century, the site was part of the Schloss Wolfsburg county, owned by Count von Schulenburg. According to Hitler's ideas, the factory should have its own city attached to it, to house the workers and their families.

The name chosen by Hitler for the car was Kdf-Wagen (Kraft durch Freude: 'strength through joy') and the city, Kdf-Stadt. However, neither in the factory nor in all of Germany did anyone use a name other than Volkswagen to refer to the Beetle. The name Kdf-Wagen was only used in catalogs and by the Nazi military. The "Beetle","Beetle" or "Käfer", was the first Volkswagen. Ferdinand Porsche drew up the plans and designs for the car, but it was Hitler himself who polished it, modernizing the front and rear headlights and adding a side rod that gave it a sportier air.

The Nazi party provided Ferdinand Porsche with the necessary infrastructure for the construction of what would later be the factory in charge of the project. For the realization of this project, the new city, Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben, was founded on May 26, 1938. The ceremony of such an important event for the Nazi regime clearly sought to impress the German people, a people who He was confident with his leader. More than 70,000 people from all corners of Germany attended the ceremony. Logically, Ferdinand Porsche was present, together with the Nazi generals and the Führer himself. At the ceremony, Hitler climbed aboard a Kdf-Wagen convertible, driven by Ferdinand Porsche.

World War II

Two KdF-Wagen on a Reich Highway in 1943.

Volkswagen Mounting Chain in Wolfsburg in 1960.

In order to finance this entire project of providing the German people with a low-cost car, the German government devised a system in which savers wishing to own a Volkswagen (people's car) contributed five marks weekly. Thus about 286 million marks were collected. None of these people received their Kdf-Wagen, as military projects monopolized the country's attention after the start of World War II in September 1939. The Fallersleben factory was put into military production, and after six years of war the money from the Kdf-Wagen was requisitioned by the Russians as war reparations.

Hitler never got to see his Kdf-Wagen roll off the production lines. With the end of the war, Ferdinand Porsche was jailed for his links to the Nazi regime and the British took control of the factory. On December 27, 1945, series production of the Beetle began.

Since the fifties

Volkswagen in Israel in 1969

Although its first steps began before World War II, it was not until the fifties when the Beetle became a vehicle with great social acceptance both in Europe and America. In 1955 the one millionth copy left the factory, and in 1972 the Beetle, as it was already known throughout the world, surpassed the record for units manufactured of a car, held by Ford with its model "T" 34;, reaching the figure of 15,007,034 Volkswagen manufactured.

In 1978 the Beetle ceased to be manufactured in Germany as demand dropped in most countries, since equivalent cars had appeared on the world market, but with much more up-to-date design and technology. It continued to be produced, however, in Brazil it continued its production until 1985, being reintroduced in that country by presidential mandate in 1993, discontinuing in 1996. At Volkswagen de México, production of the sedan continued uninterrupted until June 30, 2003, when the "Ultima Edición" model was produced, which carried distinctive equipment. The last unit produced is in the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg and another of these coveted copies was given as a gift to Pope John Paul II by a group of dealers of the brand in Mexico.

During the turn of the last century, the Volkswagen Sedan (Beetle) was considered "the car of the century."

After long years shut down in the production of its archaic air-cooled, opposed-cylinder rear-engined models, Volkswagen fortunately picked up the thread in the evolution of its automobiles, and after the takeover of Auto Union, and the old car manufacturer NSU Motorenwerke in 1969, based on the technology inherited from this last brand, was able to catch up with other manufacturers, and develop their own models with four-cylinder in-line and water-cooled front-wheel drive engines. After the initial Volkswagen K70 (Developed entirely by NSU), and Volkswagen Passat, the Golf was presented in 1974, which adopted the same mechanical configuration as the advanced Fiat 127, considered at the time as the standard car in its segment, and which was the best-selling model in Europe for many years. Thanks to this injection of technology, Volkswagen gradually expanded its range of models, abandoning its previous policy of an obsolete single model. This is how the Passat was first incorporated in 1973, a little before the Scirocco sports car, and then the Golf and the smaller Polo model. In 1998 the New Beetle appears, offering a design based on the old Beetle, but totally modernized, like the technology. This car is primarily intended for the US market, where a large number of Beetle nostalgics continue to exist. The appearance of this model, together with a decrease in demand also in Latin American countries, led to the closure of the manufacture of the classic Vocho in Mexico in 2003. Previously, other new models have been coming out, such as the Phaeton, a ship flagship of the brand, the Sharan, the Touran, a seven-seater minivan, and the Touareg, a luxury SUV for use in the city, highway and on difficult terrain.

In 2002 the number of employees was 325,000. Also in 2002 and after 28 years of production, the Golf outsold the legendary Beetle.

In 2012, Volkswagen delivered 5,738,000 vehicles, giving it a global market share of 12.8%.

In September 2015, it came to light that Volkswagen had illegally installed software to change the results of technical pollutant emission controls on 11 million diesel-powered cars sold between 2009 and 2015. As a result of this fraud, its engines had successfully passed the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. The vehicles involved emit up to 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen oxides.

Historical evolution of logos

Logos over the years.

Logo until 1995. Logo in 2000. Logo in 2017.

Factories

Volkswagen factory in Dresden.

The group has 45 factories in 21 countries: Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Spain, Slovakia, United States, United States, Hungary, India, Italy, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Peru, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Russia, Portugal, and South Africa, and is present in 153 countries with its own commercial organizations.

Wolfsburg is currently the headquarters of the Volkswagen Group. The city's coat of arms (which would appear on export versions of Volkswagens between 1951 and 1963) was designed by a cartoonist named Kern. It was made up of the figure of the traditional castle with two towers and a drawgate with a stylized wolf on the battlements. At its vertex some wavy lines symbolized the Mittellandkanal.

Volkswagen has built a completely new factory in Dresden in recent years, made of glass, which allows visitors to see the entire manufacturing process in detail. In Wolfsburg he has built the Automobile City, a set of buildings for the public, where you can see exhibitions on the history of the company and the world of the automobile, and where buyers can personally pick up their Volkswagen cars.

In 1994 VW overcame the crisis due to a drop in demand by applying a model in which employees agreed with the employer to reduce working hours and wages by 20%. The immediate result was that nearly 20,000 jobs were saved. However, in recent years the measure has proven counterproductive.

For the moment, Volkswagen announced that it will buy a 19.9 percent stake in the Japanese Suzuki for an amount of 1.7 billion euros (about 2.5 billion dollars), thereby significantly strengthening its position in Asia.

Factories

News

R&D

According to the 2014 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, Volkswagen ranked first among the companies that invest the most in R&D in the world with 11,743 million euros in 2013, or 6 % of your bill.

Environmental Record 1974

Volkswagen XL1, yields 326 km/l (261 miles per gallon) ^{[chuckles]required]}. It's the most efficient fuel car in the world ^{[chuckles]required]}.

In 1974 Volkswagen paid a $120,000 fine to settle a complaint filed by the Environmental Protection Agency about its use of so-called "tampering devices" make certain pollution control systems disabled. The complaint said the use of the devices violated the Clean Air Act.

Volkswagen first implemented its seven environmental objectives in technical development in 1996. The plan contains topics related to climate protection, resource conservation and health care, through objectives such as reducing greenhouse emissions and fuel consumption, enabling the use of alternative fuels, and avoiding the use of hazardous materials. The original objectives since 1996 have been revised in 2002 and 2007. Volkswagen was the first car manufacturer to apply the ISO 14000 standard, during its processing phase and re-certified under the standards in September 2005. In 2011 Greenpeace began to criticize Volkswagen's opposition to legislation requiring stricter controls on emissions CO2{displaystyle {ce {CO2}}} and energy efficiency, and an advertising campaign was launched parodying recent series of Star Wars-based commercial VWs.

In 2013, the Volkswagen XL1 became the most fuel efficient production car in the world, with a claimed combined fuel consumption of 261 mpeg (0.90 litres/100 km). Driving style has a huge impact on this result - a "normal" Driving yields mileage in the 120 mpg range (1.96 liters/100 km).

As of 2014, VW has posted a Company Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of 34-38 mpg in the US.

Diesel Emissions Violations

Logo of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

On September 19, 2015, the United States EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) accused Volkswagen of having implanted software in its diesel vehicles to falsify pollution tests. car was under review, limiting the emission of toxic gases below the permitted limit. However, during normal driving conditions, the emission control software would cut out in order to achieve greater fuel economy and additional power, resulting in as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by law.

Volkswagen initially admitted to putting such software in the more than 400,000 diesel vehicles sold in the United States. The head of Volkswagen USA, Michael Horn, admitted the facts and apologized publicly. However, a few days later it became known that said software had also been installed in vehicles sold in Europe, and thus the number of cars affected amounted to 11 million vehicles worldwide. Over the next two weeks, Volkswagen lost market value, falling from a price of $161.35 at the close of Friday the 18th to $101.15 on Friday, October 2, which represents a negative variation of -37 %. However, as of the close on October 7, shares of Volkswagen AG (VOW.DE) were trading at USD 118. The recovery trend is attributed to the early actions of transparency, acceptance and apologies offered by the corporation.

On September 23, 2015, Martin Winterkorn, president of Volkswagen, resigned as a result of the crisis of the distortion of polluting gas emissions.

On September 25, 2015, Matthias Müller is appointed as the new president of Volkswagen

On Wednesday, January 11, 2017, Volkswagen agreed to plead guilty to the emissions cheating scandal and agreed to pay $4.3 billion in penalties. Six Volkswagen executives were charged.The following day, one of the accused executives received a search warrant to be held without bail pending trial as it was feared that he might flee to Germany and extradition would be impossible. For this reason, VW's senior management personnel were warned not to travel to the US. On January 23, 2017, a US judge approved a $1.2 billion settlement of which $650 million was for American dealers "who, like consumers, were blindsided by the outright fraud that VW had perpetrated," they would receive an average of $1.85 million.

False advertising

In March 2016, the US Federal Trade Commission sued Volkswagen for misleading advertising, having found that "clean" from Volkswagen were less environmentally friendly than advertised.

Global sales figures

Country	City	Models	Foundation
Germany	Wolfsburg	SEAT Tarraco Volkswagen Volkswagen Fox Volkswagen Sportvan Volkswagen Touran Volkswagen e-Golf Volkswagen Tiguan	1938
Mexico	Puebla	Volkswagen Tiguan Volkswagen Taos Volkswagen Jetta	1964
China	Changchun	Audi Q45 Audi A4 Limousine Audi A6 Limousine Audi e-tron Volkswagen Tacqua Volkswagen Bora Volkswagen B SMV Volkswagen Magotan Volkswagen CC	1988
Brazil	Anchieta	Volkswagen Saveiro Volkswagen Polo Volkswagen Nivus Volkswagen Virtus	1957

Agreements in other continents

Outside Europe Volkswagen has partners to expand to other continents:)

• FAW-Volkswagen: Since 1991 for the Asian market, more specifically in China, manufacturing and marketing specific models for this market.

• Sovac S.P.A and Volkswagen: Des 2017 for the African market in Algeria where a new factory was built.

Models

All models

List of models from 1919 to present at Volkswagen in German or in the AutoAmpel Car Annex.

Current models

Up!		City car
Fox (South America)		Supermini	Finca
Polo		Supermini	Sedán Sharing Finca
Beetle		Cupé
Golf		Small family car	Estate Kabriolet
Jetta		Medium car of the family	Sedán
Passat		Great family car	Sedan Finca CargoAll field)
CC		Small official car
Arteon		Family car coupé	Sedán
Phaeton		Great official car	Sedán
Eos		Convertible	Convertible
Scirocco		Compact sports car	Sharing
Golf +		Small MPV	MPV
Touran		Small MPV	MPV
Sharan		Great MPV	MPV
Tiguan		SUV small car	MPV
Suran		Small MPV	MPV
Touareg		Big SUV Car	SUV

GTI models

Polo GTI		Supermini	Small car city
Golf GTI		Small family car	Small family car

It is also worth noting the Golf GTI W12-650, a prototype presented in 2007, which is known as the most radical Golf of all time and unfortunately never reached production.. Contrary to what many believe, the Golf was not the first car to use the GTI acronym, this was the Maserati 3500 GTI introduced in 1960.

Electric models

VW e-smartConnect is the robotic charging system for VW electric cars.

GTE model

GTE cars with electric motors to convert; GTEov engine, engine and transmission are fully shared by the recently launched Audi A3 e-tron:

Polo GTE		Supermini	Limusina	Plug-Hybrid: 8 kWh, with lithium ion battery; 60 kW electric motor and the TSI turbo with a capacity between 1.0 and 1.4 liters.
Golf GTE		Small family car	Limusina	1.4 litres and an electric motor can travel a total of 50Km a la current.
Passat GTE

E-Models

VW e-Models are electric powered vehicles only.

e-up!
e-Golf

R-models

Golf R		Small sports car	Limusina
Scirocco R		Small sports car	Sharing

Historical models

Volkswagen T1

KDF-Wagen		1936-1945.
Kübelwagen		1940–1945.
Schwimmwagen		1942–1944.
Sedán		1938-2003
Karmann Ghia		1955–1974.
1500/1600		1961-1973.
181		1969-1983.
Country Buggy		1967-1969.
411		1968-1972.
K70		1970-1974.
412		1972-1974.
Brasilia		1973-1982
Scirocco		1974-1981.
Derby		1977–1981.
Corrigendum		1988-1995.
Lupo		1998–2004.
New Beetle		1998–2010.
Sharan	volkswagen-vw-sharan_2000_Minivens_1629110602_3	1995-2021.
Routan		2009-2013.

Models outside of Europe

Brasilia		1973-1982
Gol/Parati
Fox
Suran

Contemporary Volkswagen nomenclature term

The names of some Volkswagen models refer to winds:

Since the name "golf" is also used for a sport, later Volkswagen models are named after a sport:

The company's only vehicle with the name of a capital is the Volkswagen Brasilia.

Volkswagen innovations

Pure Ethanol vehicles

VW pure ethanol prototype developed by Volkswagen de Brasil 1978.

Volkswagen do Brasil has produced and sold vehicles powered by pure ethanol (E100), in Brazil, and production stops after Flex Fuel is created. In response to the oil crisis in 1973, the Brazilian government began promoting bioethanol as a fuel, as well as the national alcohol program Pro-Alcohol (Programa Nacional del Alcohol), which was launched in 1975. Forced into the energy crisis in 1979 and subsequent development and testing with a government fleet by the Brazilian General Command for Aerospace Technology (CTA), in São José dos Campos and further testing of various prototypes that have been developed in cooperation with local car manufacturers, including Volkswagen do Brasil, ethanol-networked vehicles are available in the Brazilian market. Gasoline engines are modified to support ethanol characteristics hydrated, and changes including compression ratio, fuel injection quantity, a replacement material that will oxidize on contact with ethanol, the use of a cold dissipation plug, enough to heat a higher temp flame erature, and the auxiliary cold start system that injects gasoline from a small tank into the engine compartment at cooler temperatures. For six years, around 75% of all Brazilian passenger cars were produced with an ethanol engine.

Production and sale of pure ethanol vehicles were suspended in early 1987 due to several factors, including a sharp decline in the price of gasoline as a result of the oil glut of the 1980s and the high sugar price on the world market, displacing ethanol production from sugarcane into sugar fuel. By mid-1989, the lack of ethanol fuel supply in local stores had left thousands of vehicles in lines at gas stations or out of fuel in garages, forcing users to abandon vehicles on ethanol.

Flexible fuel vehicles

The 2003 VW Gol 1.6 Total Flex was the first full flexible fuel vehicle launched in Brazil, capable of running with any gasoline mix and E100.

In March of that year, on its fiftieth anniversary, Volkswagen do Brasil launched in the local market the Gol 1.6 Total de Flex, the first commercial flexible fuel vehicle in Brazil, capable of running on any mixture of E20-E25 gasoline and up to 100% ethanol-fueled hybrids (E100). After the pure ethanol fiasco, consumer confidence in ethanol-powered vehicles was restored, allowing for rapid adoption of flex technology. This was facilitated by the existing fuel distribution infrastructure throughout Brazil, with more than 30,000 fueling stations, a heritage of the Pró-Álcool program.

Due to the success and rapid consumer acceptance of the flex-fuel versions, by 2005 VW sold 293,523 flex-fuel cars and light trucks, and only 53,074 gasoline-powered cars, jumping to 525,838 flex-fuel vehicles and only 13,572 gasoline cars and 248 gasoline trucks in 2007, and reaching new car sales of 564,959 flex-fuel vehicles in 2008, representing 96% of all new cars and light trucks sold in that year. VW do Brasil stopped manufacturing gasoline-only vehicle models for the local market in 2006, and all remaining Volkswagen gasoline models sold in Brazil were imported. The flex fuel models currently produced for the local market are the Gol, Fox, CrossFox, Parati, Polo Hatch, Polo Sedan, Saveiro, Golf, and Kombi. By March 2009, Volkswagen do Brasil had reached the mark milestone of two million flex-fuel vehicles produced since 2003.

Hybrid Vehicles

Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid gets 48 mpg on the road.

Volkswagen and Sanyo have teamed up to develop a battery system for hybrid cars. Volkswagen head Martin Winterkorn has confirmed that the company plans to build compact hybrid electric vehicles. He has stated "There will definitely be compact hybrid models, like the Polo and Golf, and without much delay", with gasoline and diesel power. For example, the Golf is the ideal model to go hybrid, as the Golf 1.4 TSI was recently awarded the "Certificate of the Environment Car" by the Oko-Trend Institute for Environmental Research, and was considered one of the greenest vehicles of 2007. Also underway at Volkswagen's Braunschweig R&D facility in northern Germany is a hybrid version of the upcoming Touareg generation.

VW intends for all future models to have the hybrid option. "Future VW models will fundamentally also be able to build on hybrid concepts", said VW development chief Ulrich Hackenberg at Automobilwoche in an interview. Hackenberg mentioned that the car was based on the Up! seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show, as well as all future models, it could be offered with either full or partial hybrid options. The rear engine of Up! it will go into production in 2011. Nothing has been said about plug-in hybrid options.

Volkswagen announced at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show the launch of the 2012 Touareg hybrid for 2011. VW has also announced plans to introduce hybrid electric versions of its most popular models to its diesel vehicles in 2012, starting with the new Jetta, followed by the Golf Hybrid in 2013 along with hybrid versions of the Passat. In 2012, the Jetta Hybrid managed to set the world record for fastest hybrid car at 187 mph.

Electric vehicles

The fully electric Volkswagen E-Up! Emissionless vehicle (ZEV).

Main Articles: electric car and the E-Up!

Volkswagen hired Karl-Thomas Neumann into one of its electric drive CEO groups. VW's head of research, Dr. Jürgen Leohold, said the company decided that fuel cell automation were not viable options.

The electrical concept of the E-Up! -two-door debuted at the 63rd Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009. E-Up! it is 3.19 m long electrically driven due to start in 2013, and uses 1+3 seating configuration. It uses a 60 kW (82 HP; 80 PS) with small electric integration motor (in stall continuously at 40 kW (54 HP; 54 PS)) it is mounted forward and loads the front wheels.

Plug-in electric vehicles

Volkswagen Golf GTE with hybrid load plug-in.

In November 2009, Volkswagen announced that it had hired Karl-Thomas Neumann as its group chief officer for electric drivetrain. Volkswagen's head of research, Jürgen Leohold, said in 2010 the company had reached the Conclusion Hydrogen fuel cell cars are not a viable option.

As of May 2016, the Volkswagen Group offers customers retail sales of nine plug-in electric cars, of which three are fully electric cars: the Volkswagen E-Up!, E-Golf and Audi R8 e-tron, and six are plug-in hybrids: the Volkswagen Golf GTE, Passat GTE, Audi A3 e-tron, Q7 e-tron quattro, Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid and Cayenne S E-Hybrid. In addition two limited production plug-in hybrids were manufactured as of 2013, the Volkswagen XL1 (250 units) and the Porsche 918 Spyder (918 units). Cumulative total sales of all Volkswagen brands in electrified vehicles It was expected at the beginning of its productions to reach about 103,000 by the end of 2016.

In order to meet increasingly stringent carbon dioxide emission limits in major markets, the VW Group expects to sell around one million fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles per year throughout the world. the world by 2025. The Group plans to expand its plug-in range with 20 new plug-in hybrid cars, including two cars to compete with Tesla Motors, the Porsche Mission e fully electric cars and the Audi e- tron quattro, which is expected to become the brand's first mass-produced electric vehicle. According to Thomas Ulbrich, the head of production for the VW brand, the automaker has the capacity to build as many as 75,000 battery electrics and plug-in hybrids in a year if demand increases. Volkswagen announced in October 2015 that it will develop a modular architecture for battery electric cars, called the MEB. The standardized system will be designed for all body structures and vehicle types and will enable the company to build emotionally engaging electric vehicles with a range of up to 310 miles (500 km)". As of June 2016, VW launched a program to develop 30 all-electric cars over 10 years, and sell 2 to 3 million electric cars per year by 2025. Due to the lower labor requirements for electric motors than for piston engines, VW expects a gradual downsizing as numbers of electric cars increase. VW considers factory-owned battery too expensive.

Awards

Volkswagen Polo in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Volkswagen up! won the 2012 World Auto event.

Volkswagen is marked as the fourth most influential car of the XX century in the "Car of the Century" 3. 4; in 1999 for his Volkswagen Type 1 "Beetle" model. It was stopped only by the Ford Model T, BMC Mini and Citroën DS. Volkswagen has produced three winners of the 50-year-old 'European Car of the Year' award.

• 1992 - Volkswagen Golf
• 2010 - Volkswagen Polo
• 2013 - Volkswagen Golf

Volkswagen has produced five winners in the US s Motor Trend Car of the Year awards - the original name was Car of the Year, which began in 1949.

• 1985 - Volkswagen GTI
• 1999 - Volkswagen New Beetle (subgroup COTY imported)
• 2004 - Volkswagen Touareg (subgroup SUV COTY)
• 2012 - Volkswagen Passat
• 2015 - Volkswagen Golf Line

Volkswagen has already produced four newly developed World Car of the Year award winners.

• 2009 - Volkswagen Golf
• 2010 - Volkswagen Polo
• 2012 - Volkswagen up!
• 2013 - Volkswagen Golf

Literature

• Jonas Kiefer: VW Type Atlas, production vehicles. 2nd edition. Delius Klasing " Co. KG, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-7688-1271-5.
• Rudi Heppe: VW cars. Podszun, Brilon 2001, ISBN 3-86133-209-4.
• Halwart Schrader: VW passenger cars since 1945, Volume 1, Typenkompass. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02105-6.
• Halwart Schrader: VW passenger cars since 1945, Volume 2, Typenkompass. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02186-2.
• Werner Oswald: German cars, Volume 2, 1920-1945. 2nd edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6.
• Werner Oswald: German cars, Volume 3, 1945-1990, Ford, Opel and Volkswagen. 1.a edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02116-1.