Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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...
...early 1960s GM was having trouble building small cars to compete with imports like the Volkswagen Beetle. Chevrolet's ill-fated Corvair, which Ralph Nader judged to be "unsafe at any speed," made few inroads against imports. Yet GM was lulled into complacency by the success of its Pontiac GTO and other trend-setting muscle cars. When buyers flocked to small cars during oil crises in the 1970s, GM's failure to produce a winning model was ominous. "They had become so arrogant and efficient at defining trends that when a fundamental shift took place, they failed to adapt," says...