ON THE MARKET

摘要

I SIMPLY CANT BELIEVE that we're producing the December edition of Volkswagen Driver already! Looking back over a year which has literally flown by, the highlights from a Volkswagen enthusiast's point of view must undoubtedly be the recent launches of Golf 6 and the new Scirocco. We'll see a lot more of these models over the coming months and it's going to be very interesting to see how sales and residuals go, in the current economic climate. Things have not boon Looking too bad for Ihc Volkswagen Group, this year, though. The company overtook Ford in worldwide car production volumes, and recently enjoyed a major boost in its share- price, at a time when most major car manufacturers were being hammered. This particular course of events left egg all over the faces o'' hedge-fund 'experts', who were betting on a fall in Volkswagen shares - and lost a fortune, when it emerged thai Porsche had taken a major stake in Ihe company, pushing share values up at one point by a whopping 500%. from around 200 euros to almost 1,000!