But VW is making progress since that tally marks a 37% jump from the same period a year ago.
Again, this is just a concept, so no guarantees we'll ever see this on the road, but a VW rep commented that they hope to see this in production in a year or two.
The Skoda Octavia is built from the same basic parts as the more expensive VW Golf, but finish, add-ons and marketing have made both models successful in their respective slots.
Hamilton rose to fame in a television advert in the 1980s, when she played a jilted lover who dumped luxury gifts in the street but kept the keys to a VW Golf.
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But analysts say economic trouble in Europe is likely to slow VW's growth and keep the automaker in third place this year.
As for new offerings from Porsche, something based-on-but-smaller-than the Boxster (built on a VW platform, possibly with an inline-four engine), will come in the next year or two.
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But Mr Schreiber rejected an assertion that he was under pressure from the VW Group board to have the SUV made in Bratislava.
To balance all that adreneline, the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory at Stanford has also developed a new VW Passat "valet system" that may not win any races, but can sure do some mean parallel parking.
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No, this doesn't mean he follows the band Phish around the country in a VW bus (though he technically could while working from his laptop and various hotspots, but let's not complicate things).
Browning, who joined VW in June, is a former sales and marketing executive at General Motors and Ford Motor, but spent most of his career outside the United States.
The cheapest versions won't have air-conditioning or power steering, but Tata hopes its cute looks will make up for missing creature comforts--just as happened with the VW Beetle and the Mini long before it.
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