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Autoneum to buy French automotive supplier Trèves

Swiss automotive supplier Autoneum has agreed to acquire France’s Trèves Group in a deal valued at up to €64m ($72.01m), including an earn-out. The initial consideration is approximately €40m. More than 80% of this amount will be paid through newly issued Autoneum Holding shares…

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Few names in the car business carry as much history as Volkswagen. Founded in 1937 to build an affordable car for ordinary Germans, it emerged from the war with the Beetle, a round, air-cooled little car that went on to sell in the tens of millions and become a symbol of everything from postwar recovery to American counterculture. Its successor in spirit, the Golf of 1974, rewrote the template for the compact hatchback and has been Europe's default family car for most of the decades since.

Volkswagen today is both a brand and the core of the sprawling Volkswagen Group, which also owns Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Cupra, Bentley, Lamborghini and the revived Scout name. The company's reputation took a deep wound in 2015 when it admitted to cheating on diesel emissions tests, a scandal that cost billions and pushed it to bet heavily on electric cars. The ID. family, starting with the ID.3 and ID.4, was the result, and the retro ID. Buzz became its most charming face.

In North America the lineup leans on SUVs such as the Tiguan, the Tennessee-built Atlas and the ID.4, alongside the Jetta and the beloved GTI and Golf R. In India it sells the Taigun and Virtus, and in China it builds millions of cars with local partners while fighting off fast-moving domestic brands. Critics have dinged its recent infotainment and software; fans still praise the way a Volkswagen drives, with a solid, grown-up feel few mass-market rivals match.

The pressure on Wolfsburg is intense, with cost cuts, plant debates, tariffs and a software partnership with Rivian all making headlines. Volkswagen is also wrestling with a basic question of identity: whether it can still build a genuinely affordable car in Europe, as it did with the Beetle and the Golf, when Chinese rivals are doing it for less. The coverage here spans new models, recalls, sales figures, executive moves and the next generation of affordable electric cars meant to restore the people's car idea.

Volkswagen

The people's car company, from the Beetle and the Golf to Dieselgate, the electric ID. family and a hard fight with Chinese rivals.

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Tiguan Volkswagen's best-selling SUV, a sensible, solid compact crossover now in its third generation, with a long-wheelbase past and plug-in hybrid options.
Atlas Volkswagen's big three-row SUV built in Tennessee for American families, a roomy, straightforward hauler with a coupe-like Cross Sport sibling.
Taigun Volkswagen's made-in-India midsize SUV, a turbo-powered, five-star-rated rival to the Creta and Seltos built on the brand's India-specific platform.
Golf and GTI The car that defined the hot hatch: the Golf since 1974, the GTI since 1976 and the all-wheel-drive Golf R, now eyeing an electric future.
Jetta Volkswagen's affordable compact sedan, a roomy, frugal commuter built in Mexico, with a sporty GLI version and a whole Jetta brand in China.
Virtus Volkswagen's midsize sedan for India and Latin America, a sporty, five-star-rated alternative to the Honda City, Hyundai Verna and Skoda Slavia.
ID.4 Volkswagen's mainstream electric SUV, built in Germany and Tennessee, a comfortable Model Y rival shaped by software fixes, price cuts and recalls.
ID. Buzz The electric reincarnation of the VW Microbus, a joyful, two-tone people mover whose return to American showrooms has been pushed back.

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