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sw @ Sep 24th 2007 1:38PM
Let me be the first to say.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This has to be an attempt at a joke by VW
paul34 @ Sep 24th 2007 1:40PM
I was just about to post this same thing. May I join you?
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
MKIV @ Sep 24th 2007 1:59PM
Oh hell, let me get in on the entertainmet as well..
BWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAHHHHAHA
catch breath
Ahhhhhhahahaaaaahhahahahaha
blogged to death @ Sep 24th 2007 2:54PM
Way to set such a high or almost impossible to reach goal. Will this include the turnaround in US market that has bombed on them. They did move to DC as their new HQ but that won't help much except raise expenses. It's much cheaper to live in MI than DC - plus they'll have to raise and pay standard of living salaries for the DC workforce.
But...my first reaction was BWAAAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAA
Guenther @ Sep 24th 2007 2:58PM
No disrespect to a certain civil rights pioneer, but...
....I HAVE A DREAM!!!!!
Drewboy @ Sep 24th 2007 3:42PM
Yeah I laughed my @$$ off at this too. Nice joke, VW!
Don @ Sep 24th 2007 10:16PM
I'll make three: Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!
Chase @ Sep 25th 2007 8:44AM
What's the biggest problem with VW in America? Everyone says reliability. Some say price, but I doubt those people have seriously considered a VW enough to value the standard features and drive-ability.
People drive a lot less in the rest of the world as compared to America. I visit France often, and everyone walks to the market to buy food, or they take a train to go to the mall. Its not uncommon to find a 20-year-old car that has less than 100,000 miles on the tach. It is very common to find 10 year old cars with less than 60k miles. In markets like France, where you drive less, reliability is much less of an issue as driving dynamics, style, and utility. VW offers excellent cars for these criteria. Thats why they are as huge as they are without much presence in USA or Japan (they are what, the 5th largest automaker in the world, but one of the very smallest in the US?).
That said, people drive even less in developing nations. That and the fact that VW is one of the top makers in developing nations, and the fact that by 2015 China alone will buy more cars than the US makes that this proposition a lot more believable. VW is a huge deal in the rest of the world, and I think they are banking on the fact that the rest of the world will soon mean a whole lot more.