Volkswagen was founded in 1938 in Fort Worth, Germany by Porsche, a world-famous automobile designer. Volkswagen is a multinational automobile group with production plants in many countries around the world, ranking among the top ten automobile companies in the world. The company's headquarters moved to Berlin and remained in Fort Worth. At present, there are 265,000 employees, and the production and sales capacity of the whole automobile group is about 3 million. Volkswagen, as its name implies, is a car produced for the public.
/KOOC-0/934/KOOC-0/7/KOOC-0/0/7, Porsche proposed to the German government to design and produce cars for the public, which was approved and supported by Hitler's government. Porsche then established Volkswagen AG with 340,000 shareholders. In the "Volkswagen City" in Fort Worth, the first batch of "Beetle" cars came out, but only 630 cars were produced and stopped production due to World War II.
After World War II, Volkswagen was placed under the West German government, and automobile production gradually recovered. Because of its low price, Beetles quickly became popular in Germany and Europe. 1955, beetles were exported to more than 100 countries. 1963, Taiwan Province Yongye Group obtained the agency right of Volkswagen and officially entered the Taiwan Province market. Later 1999, Volkswagen recovered the agency right of Yongye Taiwan Province Province and handed it over to Taifeng Automobile and Swire Automobile.
1in March, 1985, audi ag announced that it would enter the China market and form a joint venture with China. Audi ag holds 50% of the shares, becoming the first foreign auto company to enter the China market. To this day, the Santana car produced by Shanghai Volkswagen still occupies the largest share of the automobile market in China.
By the time 198 1 stopped producing Beetle, it had produced 20 million vehicles, breaking the world record of Ford Model T. With the popularity of Beetle, Volkswagen also grew into a powerful world automobile production group, and established automobile production factories and sales companies in Spain, Mexico and other countries. Following the "Beetle" car, Volkswagen achieved mass production of four-wheel continuous drive passenger cars in 1980, and launched the world's best-selling golf car in the 1980s, thus becoming the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe. Now Volkswagen has launched a new "Beetle" car, ready to blow up another "Beetle" whirlwind. In addition, since 1994, the T4 boxcar that Zhong Qing started to produce in Taiwan Province was discontinued in 2004.
Volkswagen has 13 production subsidiaries, 7 overseas sales companies and 23 other companies around the world. Domestic subsidiaries are mainly Volkswagen and Audi, while foreign companies include Spain, Mexico, Skoda and Shanghai Volkswagen. Its main products are: Golf, Santana, Passat, corrado, Audi and Audi Cobb.
Volkswagen is the symbol of the company.
Among them, V and W are two German words: prefix "VOLKS WAGEN", which is concise, generous and clear. The cars produced by this company are also marked with this logo.