Wendelin Wiedeking Quotations

Our planned investment is the strategic answer to this risk. We wish in this way to ensure the independence of the Volkswagen Group.

Our planned investment is the strategic answer to this risk,

We are on course, ... Although development sector costs are still increasing because of new projects, we remain highly profitable.

It took us a long time to check whether the Cayenne would destroy or hurt the brand image,

This will allow us maintain research and development spend, and have the potential to offer the market new products from one year to another.

We found out that if the SUV done by Porsche is a very sporty vehicle, it will work.

We have once again significantly outperformed even the very ambitious targets we have given ourselves, and this is despite the overall weakness of the world economy, which certainly has not given any momentum to the automotive industry as a whole.

With this commitment, we want to secure our business relations with VW and safeguard an essential part of our future planning over the long term.

Guaranteed -- we broke up a possible deal for some investment bankers,

Volkswagen sells only 2.8 percent of its products in the same segments as Porsche. An overlap first starts to become relevant for antitrust authorities when it is 25 to 33 percent.