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Industry Leader of the Year and CEO, Europe: MARTIN WINTERKORN, CEO, Volkswagen Group

Source: Automotive News, Nov 25 2012, 5:35pm CST

Martin Winterkorn, the 65-year-old perfectionist who has run Volkswagen since 2007, is steering the 12-brand group toward becoming the world's biggest and most profitable carmaker by 2018. The hard-driving CE ...

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European carmakers decline on weakening China manufacturing

Source: Automotive News  |   May 23 2013, 5:04am CDT

FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Renault, Europe's three largest carmakers, all dropped 5 percent or more after preliminary data showed manufacturing in China is unexpectedly contracting. PSA decline ...

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"Each and every car you see on the road went through his hands ... If he's not happy with it, it will not be launched. A car could be done and he drives it and says 'that is not the look and feel we need' -- so it's back to the drawing board."


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