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Volkswagen publishes iPad customer magazine
* First automaker to develop app specially for iPad
* Free download in iTunes Store coming soon
Wolfsburg, 28 May 2010 – Volkswagen is the first automaker to develop a digital customer magazine as an app specially for the iPad. The innovative digital product which goes by the name of DAS. lines up in good time for the launch of the new Apple product in Europe. The title stands for “Digital Automotive Space”. The magazine will be published quarterly in five languages and will be accessible throughout Europe.
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Volkswagen Group takes majority shareholding in Italdesign Giugiaro
- Volkswagen takes 90.1 percent stake in internationally renowned design and development services company
- Expansion of capacity and competence for global model initiative
- Volkswagen Board of Management Chairman Winterkorn: “New era in strategic partnership between these two companies”
Wolfsburg/Turin, 25 May 2010 – The Volkswagen Group and Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. (IDG), Turin, are to intensify their successful cooperation, putting it on a new footing. This was announced by both companies at a joint press conference in Turin on Tuesday. The Volkswagen Group will take a 90.1 percent stake in IDG, including the brand name rights and patents. The shares are being acquired by AUDI’s Italian subsidiary Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. The remaining shares will stay in the possession of the present owner family Giugiaro.
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Worldwide deliveries by Volkswagen Group up 21 percent in period to April
• Volkswagen and Audi brands grow by over 20 percent
• Skoda and SEAT also report appreciable increase
• Group Board Member for Sales Klingler: “Sales situation well developed – but we remain cautious about full-year assessment”
Wolfsburg, 17 May 2010 – The Volkswagen Group continues to steer its successful course on global automotive markets, delivering 2.34 (January to April 2009: 1.93)* million vehicles worldwide in the first four months of the current year. This corresponds to growth of 20.9 percent. Europe’s largest automaker has therefore once again outperformed the global market (+18.1 percent).
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To the point: Golf GTI-Meet at Worthersee 2010: World premiere of the GTI adidas and GTI Excessive
Golf GTI adidas: Customised Golf GTI launches in June
Golf GTI Excessive: Concept adds precise motorsport look for series production
Flashback: Golf GTI 1 and Golf Citi Mk1 as tributes to their origins
Wolfsburg / Reifnitz, 13 May 2010 – There are automobiles, and then there are automotive icons – classics with a glorious past and an exciting future. The Golf GTI is such an icon. Over 1.7 million have been sold since the car’s debut in 1976. In just the sixth year after the launch of the Golf GTI, its community of fans had grown so large that it sought a common platform, or to put it simply an event, to talk shop, showcase and drive the GTI. That is how the GTI-Meet in Reifnitz at W?rthersee came into being in 1982. Since then, fans have been meeting in the Austrian state of K?rnten for five days of Mardi Gras in May. It is already time to meet again. One of the traditional highlights: unveiling of the new GTI variations. Debuting as world premieres this year are the Golf GTI adidas – an exclusive model whose sales will launch in June – and the Golf GTI Excessive, a concept car implemented in a stylistically refined motorsport look.
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To the Point: The New Polo GTI – Extremely Strong and Exceptionally Fuel Efficient
180 PS Polo GTI with 5.9 litre consumption is 25 percent more fuel efficient
229 km/h fast Polo GTI debuts with standard 7-speed DSG
Wolfsburg / N?rburgring, 10 May 2010 – The Polo GTI is back. A powerful 132 kW / 180 PS comeback! And this GTI too lives up to its legendary name with superior handling properties combined with uncompromising engine responsiveness and a maximum of safety. The highlight: Never before has such a powerful Polo come even close to its fuel efficiency. Thanks to clever downsizing of the twincharged 1.4-litre TSI engine (turbo plus supercharging) and the extremely efficient 7-speed dual clutch gearbox (DSG) as standard equipment, the development team was able to reduce combined fuel consumption to 5.9 l/100 km. That is equivalent to CO2 emissions of just 139 g/km. By comparison: Its direct predecessor in terms of power – also equipped with a 180 PS 1.8-litre turbo engine – consumed 7.9 litres per 100 kilometres (equivalent to 188 g/km CO2). This means that the new car is 25 percent more fuel efficient.
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Summer luxury: Eos with new exclusive equipment package
Wolfsburg, 05 May 2010 – The Eos can now be ordered with an exclusive equipment package. Known as “Volkswagen Exclusive”, it includes two-tone nappa leather combinations, elegant alloy wheels and black “piano lacquer” trim inlays.
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Golf blue-e-motion – Presentation at Foundation Event for a “National Platform for Electric Mobility”
Volkswagen Presents Golf blue-e-motion Concept to German Chancellor
Golf powered by zero-emissions electric motor to launch in 2013
Golf blue-e-motion with 150 km range will also satisfy driving needs of commuters
Wolfsburg / Berlin, 03 May 2010 – Today, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel will have a close look at a concept of the future Golf blue-e-motion in Berlin. Volkswagen is forging new links to the era of electric mobility with this pure electric drive version of the most successful European car ever produced. In 2013, after the debut of the Up blue-e-motion (a new city specialist), the Golf blue-e-motion and the technically closely-related Jetta blue-e-motion will launch on the market. In the same timeframe, the Lavida blue-e-motion will also launch in China. The stated objective: Volkswagen wants to use bestsellers such as the Golf to take electric vehicles out of their niche model status and to become the market leader for a new type of sustainable mobility by 2018. This strategy coincides with planning by the German federal government, which would like to see about one million electric vehicles on the streets by 2020.
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Volkswagen presents new 3-cylinder turbodiesel
Experts discuss the future of powertrain technologies
Wolfsburg, 29 April 2010 – Along with the presentation of a new 3-cylinder TDI, Volkswagen will be represented by a contingent of engine experts at the 31st International Vienna Motor Symposium. Its presentations in front of an international audience of engineers will focus on top values in CO2 emissions and fuel efficiency. However, another key issue that will be addressed is what conditions are crucial to achieving market penetration of alternative drives.
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Phaeton debuts with new design and new technologies
Initial Facts: World Premiere at Auto China 2010:
Flagship of the Volkswagen brand with fundamentally new front design
Online services and dynamic main beam control arrive in the Phaeton
Wolfsburg / Beijing, 22 April 2010 – At the Transparent Factory in Dresden Volkswagen produces one of the finest automobiles in the world: the Phaeton. The limousine’s quality and comfort (four-wheel drive and air suspension as standard) set a unique benchmark. Volkswagen, the most successful carmaker in Europe and China, has now made the Phaeton even more perfect. The company’s new flagship is being unveiled for the first time at Auto China 2010 (27th April to 2nd May) in Beijing.
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World Premiere of the Milano Taxi
Volkswagen presents concept of a taxi that is driven emissions-free
Milano Taxi is potential prototype for a new generation of taxis
Innovative taxi concept could be implemented in all of the world’s metropolises
Wolfsburg / Hanover, 19 April 2010 – Volkswagen has announced that it will launch its first production electric vehicles in 2013. Electric cars that are driven emissions-free will revolutionise mobility over the mid-term, especially in urban areas. However, Volkswagen is not just thinking of individual mobility here, but is also considering its possibilities as a vehicle in public transportation. That is why Volkswagen is now showing – in a world premiere at the Hanover Trade Show – just how a large-scale production taxi driven by an electric motor might look. The “Milano Taxi” concept car that has been created is a city MPV tailored to the needs of taxi drivers and their passengers in its many innovative details such as a swivel-sliding door that opens in a forward direction and customisable taxi touchscreens.
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