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...Consumer Reports, which recommended three VW models in the late 1990s, now only keeps the Passat on its list of recommended cars. That's quite a tumble for Europe's largest automaker, which employs 332,800 people worldwide and manufactures some 5 million units a year, including the brands Audi, Bugatti, Seat and Skoda. Those quality issues are also raising concerns about VW's hold over the North American market - the largest and most vibrant in the world and one critical for VW's profit growth. While VW is holding its own in Europe's anemic market - the VW group...
...tougher European marketplace. The Golf will take on a new Opel Astra, which launches early next year, and faces formidable foes in the Peugeot 307, Renault Mégane and Mazda's upcoming Mazda3. Analysts say the Golf already loses sales to other VW brethren, such as the Audi A3 and models from Skoda and Seat. Japanese and Korean automakers are cutting into VW's core segment: compacts. In a European market down 1.5% this year, Honda's sales are up 7.4%, almost entirely thanks to its new Jazz subcompact. Hyundai, with sales up 10.8%, boasts a European market share...
...aborted destination, it's Stefani rather than any German who is persona non grata. Maurizio Melucci, the head of tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first to call for the junior minister's resignation. People wondered why the patriot manqué drives an Audi rather than a Lancia, and whether his former marriage to a German woman influenced his feelings. Says Bernabò Bocca, president of Federalberghi, the main association of Italian hotels: "It looks like he had a problem with his wife and decided to take it out on a whole populace." At the October...
...Audi A8 L, available June 12, may have benefited from BMW's mistake. While it features a similar, joystick-like knob, it's supplemented with manual buttons you can push when you get tired of wading through the onscreen menus. Still, we encountered some problems in our test drive. The navigation system routinely directed us to take the least convenient route to our destination. And the trunk door popped open all by itself on two separate occasions after we left...
...foundation), which can't be easily re-engineered into sports cars. To make its Crossfire, Chrysler modified a platform that its sister brand, Mercedes-Benz, is phasing out. Foreign automakers have rolled out profitable models partly because they spent decades investing in platforms that can flex: Audi's TT sits on a modified Golf platform; BMW's Z4 started out with a 3-Series...