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This article is about Volkswagen Passenger Cars. For the parent group, see Volkswagen Group. For Volkswagen vans , trucks and buses, see Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
Volkswagen Passenger Cars
Volkswagen logo 2012.svg
Type Aktiengesellschaft
Industry Automotive
Founded 28 May 1937
Headquarters Wolfsburg, Germany
Area served Worldwide
Key people Martin Winterkorn:
Chairman of the Board of Management,
Ferdinand Piëch: Chairman of Volkswagen Supervisory Board
Products Automobiles
Luxury vehicles
Production output Increase5,771,789 units (2012)
Revenue Increase€103.942 billion (2012)
Profit Increase€21.7 billion (2012)
Parent Volkswagen Group
Website www.volkswagen.com
Volkswagen (VW; German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡən]; /ˈvoʊks.wæɡ.ən/) is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen is the top-selling and original marque of the Volkswagen Group, the biggest German automaker and the second largest automaker in the world.
Volkswagen has three cars in the top 10 list of best-selling cars of all time compiled by the website 24/7 Wall St: the Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Volkswagen Passat. With these three cars, Volkswagen has the most cars of any automobile manufacturer in the list that are still being manufactured. Volkswagen ranks first in spending the most money of any automaker on research and development as of 2011.