The Volkswagen Sedan will be used as a taxi in Mexico City until 2013.

Full-cycle production of Volkswagen Jetta and Škoda Octavia will start in 2013.

The car is also cheaper to build than its predecessor ; Volkswagen claims it consequently will be able to pass these savings on to the customer.

New on the Golf, is the optional Volkswagen Adaptive Chassis Control ( not available in the North American market ), which allows the driver to select between ' normal ', ' comfort ' and ' sports ' modes, which will vary the suspension, steering and accelerator behavior accordingly.

Export vehicles will be offered with a 2. 0 L turbocharged common-rail diesel made by Volkswagen and the 2. 0 L GEMA engine.

Under the agreement, full-cycle production of the new Volkswagen Jetta, Škoda Octavia, and Škoda Yeti will be organized at GAZ.

In May 2010, Volkswagen announced that production of the current body of the New Beetle will cease in 2011.

More recently, as Volkswagen assumed ultimate control of Porsche AG, that agreement fell through, and the production of both Caymans and Boxsters after 2012 will be in the former Karmann plant in Osnabrück, Germany, now owned by Volkswagen and used for production of the new 2012 Golf Cabriolet.

As an example, on the Volkswagen Golf Mk5 GTI, sixth gear will be engaged around, when initially using the DSG transmission with the ' default ' ECU adaptation-although with an " aggressive " or " sporty " driving style, the adaptive shift pattern will increase the vehicle speed at which sixth gear engages.

" We feel that Volkswagen salesmen will be able to interest the purchaser of a Sapphire I player in a complementary model for his home ," Stanton said.

A facelifted Volkswagen Eos appeared in late 2010, and will go on sale as a 2012 model outside Europe.

A number of automobile manufacturers — Citroën, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, General Motors ( including Daewoo, Holden, Opel / Vauxhall, Saab ), Maruti Suzuki, Peugeot, Renault ( including Dacia ), Skoda, Tata Motors, Toyota, Volvo, and more recently Volkswagen — have OEM bi-fuel models that will run equally well on both LPG and petrol.

The company has always had a close relationship with, initially, the Volkswagen ( VW ) marque, and later, the Volkswagen Group ( which also owns Audi AG ), because the first Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

He initially came to Springfield an eager, idealistic, guitar-playing, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia-driving young man in the seventies, only to become cynical and disillusioned about his flock and ministry, mostly due to Ned Flanders, who constantly pesters him with religious non-emergencies such as " coveting his own wife " or sometimes non-religious non-emergencies such as thinking he " swallowed a toothpick.

One of the very early planners for SMI has stated that technical affiliations for SMI were initially considered with either Volkswagen or Honda.

The Volkswagen Type 2, known officially, depending on body type as the Transporter, Kombi and Microbus, and informally as the Bus ( US ) or Camper ( UK ), is a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 ( Beetle ), it was given the factory designation Type 2.

Offered initially only as a nine-passenger version called the Volkswagen Combi, and from 1973 also its cargo van version called the Volkswagen Panel, both variants were fitted with the 1. 5 L air-cooled boxer engine and four-speed manual gearbox.

The latter was initially only offered on the Citi but was later transferred to other Volkswagen models as well.

UK sales of the Horizon ( which went on sale there in early 1978 and was badged as a Chrysler until 1 August 1979, when it became a Talbot ) were initially quite strong, but within five years of its launch it was starting to lose sales in a segment dominated by an increasing number of newer models including the Ford Escort Mark III, Vauxhall Astra, Austin Maestro and Volkswagen Golf Mark II.

The Type 3 was initially equipped with a 1. 5 L ( 1493 cc ) engine based on the air-cooled 1200cc flat-4 found in the Type 1, but given a 69mm stroke it became the basis for the 1300cc and 1600cc engines that followed in the later Beetle ( Type 1 ) and Volkswagen Type 2 T1 and T2.

Rice would be based during the ' challenges ' in a large blue truck, and for her frequent trips to persuade companies and people to take part she initially employed the use of a Volkswagen based beach buggy, and then went on to use a kit built Dakar 4x4 vehicle in the 1990s.

They were among the first mainstream front-wheel drive models introduced into the North American market, and initially saw great sales success, and were an alternative to imported front-wheel drive sedans like the Toyota Camry, Nissan Stanza, Honda Accord, and the Volkswagen Quantum.

The Arosa was initially manufactured at a Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, and only in May 1998 was the production moved to SEAT facilities in Martorell in Spain.

It was designed by BorgWarner, and was initially licensed to the Volkswagen Group, with support by IAV GmbH.

Late in 2000 Pischetsrieder joined Volkswagen Group, mandated initially to take responsibility for quality, as " the voice of the customer " across the group, along with specific responsibility for giving the group's SEAT operation a new focus.

Porsche then formally announced in a press statement that it did not intend to take over Volkswagen Group ( it would set its offer price at the lowest possible legal value ) but intended the move to avoid a competitor taking a large stake, and to stop hedge funds dismantling Volkswagen Group, which is Porsche's most important partner.

Stander was ranked in the top 15 among the world's Heavyweights when he was given a shot at world champion Joe Frazier, prompting his wife Darlene to say the now famous words, " You don't take a Volkswagen into the Indianapolis 500 unless you know a short-cut.

But in February, Karmann's most important customer, Volkswagen VAG, forbade Karmann to take on the job.

However, just as the car was about to be launched, well founded rumors appeared concerning the then imminent take over of cash strapped NSU by Volkswagen: even before the take over had been made public, the K70's future was threatened by management concerns that the K70 was too close in size and price to the recently launched Audi 100.

The reality was a take over of NSU by Volkswagen, and during 1969 the Neckarsulm company was integrated with Auto Union, which Volkswagen had acquired from Daimler Benz in 1964-in turn creating the basis of the modern day Audi company which has evolved to the present day.

Maj. Ivan Hirst was told simply to “ take charge of ” the Volkswagen plant before arriving in August 1945.

It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere.

During this period, Studebaker of Canada also imported cars for Volkswagen of Canada, using its status as a Canadian manufacturer to take advantage of lower import duties than a Canadian importer.

They take on the guise of Volkswagen mechanics, ethnic circus performers, and other similar business practitioners.

Volkswagen had 51 % of the company and Ford 49 %; Volkswagen managed the Car Division, and Ford the Truck Division.

Mawson Station started using classic Volkswagen Beetles, the first production cars to be used in Antarctica.

* 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.

On some occasions, new gag cartoons have been created for book publication, as was the case with Think Small, a 1967 promotional book distributed as a giveaway by Volkswagen dealers.

* 1976 February: Tested a diesel engine for the Volkswagen Golf passenger car.

* 2009: Volkswagen won the 2009 Dakar Rally held in Argentina and Chile.

Auto Union came under Daimler-Benz ownership in 1957, and was then purchased by the Volkswagen Group in 1964.

So, in 1967, Volkswagen bought the company and phased out the DKW-Vemag production.

Morris has directed hundreds of commercials for various companies and products, including Adidas, AIG, Cisco Systems, Citibank, Kimberly-Clark's Depend brand, Levi's, Miller High Life, Nike, PBS, The Quaker Oats Company, Southern Comfort, EA Sports, Toyota and Volkswagen.

They are or were used in: the Volkswagen Beetle, some Porsche and Subaru cars, many BMW and Honda motorcycles, and aircraft engines ( for propeller driven aircraft ), etc.

KdF was also responsible for the creation of the original Volkswagen (" People's Car "), a state-manufactured automobile that was meant to be cheap enough to allow all German citizens to be able to own one.

* 1972 – Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.

In 2010 the ten largest were Volkswagen, Allianz, E. ON, Daimler, Siemens, Metro, Deutsche Telekom, Munich Re, BASF, and BMW.

Well-known global brands are Mercedes Benz, BMW, Adidas, Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, Bayer, Bosch, Lufthansa, SAP, and Nivea.

The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of West German reconstruction.

In his 1969 counterculture Volkswagen repair manual, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot, John Muir instructs prospective used VW buyers to " grok the car " before buying.

The Volkswagen Beetle was an icon of West German reconstruction.

The plant delivers engines to carmakers Volkswagen, Skoda, Seat and also to Lamborghini.

The Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Transporter ( VWN ) factory at Hannover-Stöcken is the biggest employer in the region and operates a huge plant at the northern edge of town adjoining the Mittellandkanal and Motorway A2.

* 2003 – In Mexico, the last ' old style ' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

* 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden.

Four-wheel drive was also introduced to minivans in North America with the Toyota Van Wagon 4WD and the Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro.

Examples are the Dodge Caravan, Honda Odyssey, Volkswagen Sharan and Eurovan.