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...Love Truck Volkswagen's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, is cranking out 3,000 special-edition old-style Beetles. But when the last one comes off the factory floor on July 30, the Bug's amazing 70-year era will officially end. Chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder, however, has been too busy trying to engineer the €90 billion company's next era to get choked up over the passing of this...
They didn't go out and celebrate that day. Woz wouldn't even quit his day job designing chips for calculators at Hewlett-Packard until months later, after Jobs had sold his Volkswagen bus for seed money. Nobody, not even Jobs, saw what was coming next: that Apple would create the look and feel of every desktop in the world and start our love affair with the personal computer. --By Lev Grossman
...European tariff on U.S. chicken. The tariff still exists, but foreign manufacturers evade it by building light trucks at U.S. plants or in Canada and then importing them under the North American Free Trade Agreement. That's why BMW, Honda, Porsche a* And Toyota make SUVs, as will Volkswagen, beginning later this year...
...CHEAP EUROPE Germany is especially attractive; its stocks have been among the hardest hit because so many are economically sensitive. Volkswagen, with a P/E of 6, is one of Perkins' favorites...
...Parked in front of the pawnshop one day last month was a new Volkswagen. The owner of a construction company had hocked it 10 minutes before in exchange for a quick $10,000 to meet expenses. He would be well advised to repay it fast because Jianjun charges interest rates of up to 5.7% a month. It's all legal and above board. Although regulators and law enforcement officials in the past have cracked down on underground lenders (loan sharks tend to use gangsters to collect unpaid debts), the government currently allows pawnshops to operate because without them, small-business...