volkswagen

Indeed - funny how you don't hear people complaining about Volkswagen when they were pretty much founded by the Nazis.

No mention of the vehicle that epitomizes curves for me, the Volkswagen Beetle...

According to [1] around 170k of Volkswagen 370k employees are in Germany.

By that same token, a Volkswagen Beetle is a badly-designed boat.

Nobody was ever forced to buy an iphone or a volkswagen.

That's not unlike asking, why are people driving Volkswagen cars?

It's funny how a Volkswagen made in the U.

Whenever I hear anyone talk about Soylent as a utilitarian product made for boring people it always makes me think of the Volkswagen Beetle.

While life on the road becomes normal for any pro athlete, the 21-year-old takes things to the next level by spending his summers living in a Volkswagen camper van.

And a colleague of mine with a late 90's Volkswagen also proved that the throttle slams shut if he rides the brakes while requesting engine power with the gas pedal.

A related artifact from that era, the very popular DIY repair manual: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot by John Muir and Peter Aschwanden.

Example: I can re-build volkswagen/porsche engines.

In contrast, Toyota sold over four times that number of cars in June 2015 alone.[2] "Struggling" Volkswagen sold 30,000 cars in April.[3] Even in the luxury category, BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus all sell in excess of 300,000 cars a year[4].

I think he was referring to the "20 sweaty minutes in the back of a Volkswagen after the club and we forgot the condoms" part; but omitting that might fall under "unnecessary detail" rather than "outright fibbing."

If you work for example for Volkswagen, every factory in the world will have strong unions, only the US factory won't.

Volkswagen has recently announced a 200-mile EV too, but might be for 2018+.

Volkswagen Lupo 3L was about 78 mpg, but that was 15 years ago, and fuel efficient tech has advanced considerably in that time.