Volkswagen

As the word “Volkswagen” means “People's car” in German, Volkswagen is the representative mass-market car manufacturer of Germany. It is headquartered in Lower Saxony (Germany) and unites 8 brands under Volkswagen Group, such as Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Škoda, SEAT and Volkswagen Commercial vehicles (+ motorcycle manufacturer Ducati). Moreover, negotiations between Volkswagen and Porsche eventually came to an agreement that Volkswagen will take over Porsche that is planned for the latter half of 2011 – 2012. (Porsche became the Volkswagen Group in 2012.) Volkswagen (hereinafter, VW) also had announced goal of selling more than 10 million cars in year 2018. If this goal will be attained, VW will get ahead of Toyota and GM, and reach the top position in terms of the number of sales. VW is also a leader in the number of imported car sales in Japan. The original Beetle and the Golf in present are the most famous models of Volkswagen.