Word: volkswagen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tough under any circumstances, competition in the auto industry gets particularly nasty when business is bad -- as it certainly is in Europe these days. Last week German investigators found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor...
...stunning find followed GM charges that Lopez or one of his colleagues took top-secret documents when Lopez bolted to Volkswagen to head its worldwide manufacturing operations. According to GM, the recovered papers included plans for a minicar that Adam Opel, GM's German unit, hopes to roll out in the mid-1990s. Also among the papers, GM said, were plans for a superefficient new factory where the car would be built. As German investigators sifted through the documents, GM officials said federal prosecutors in Detroit were also probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir...
General Motors filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, the former head of its global purchasing operations. The company says that when he left to join Volkswagen in March, he took confidential GM documents...
Eyewitnesses said the Friday night shooting began when a number of young men stepped out of a maroon Volkswagen Jetta GL and began firing...
Eyewitnesses said the commotion began at about 8 p.m., when a number of young men stepped out of a maroon Volkswagen Jetta GL and mysteriously started shooting. Two young women were reported to be in the front seats...