Volkswagen (1937 - )

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Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered inWolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen (literally means "people's car" in German) was founded in 1937 by A. Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche. Volkswagen is the original and top-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, the biggest German automaker and the second biggest automaker in the world.Volkswagen has three cars in the top 10 list of best-selling cars of all time compiled by the website 24/7Wall St: the Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Volkswagen Passat. With these three cars, Volkswagen has the most cars of any automobile manufacturer in the list that are still being manufactured
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* 1937	Wolfsburg	foundation by A.Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche
1938		starts VW Typ1 (Beetle) production
1940		production of war machines
1970		collaboration with G. Giugiaro
1974		presentation of G. Giugiaro’s Golf

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