Volkswagen is a German carmaker founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union German labor front, with its headquarters in Wolfsburg. It is the flagship brand of the Volkswagen Group, the world's largest car manufacturer by sales in 2016 and 2017. The group's largest market is China, where it has achieved 40% of sales and profits.

Volkswagen translates German into "people's car". The company's current international advertising language is just "Volkswagen", referring to the meaning of the name.

Volkswagen was founded in Berlin in 1937 by the German labor front. In the early 1930s, cars were a luxury: most Germans couldn't afford anything more refined than motorcycles. Only one German in 50 has a car. In order to find potential new markets, some automakers have started independent "people's car" projects, including Mercedes 170h, Adler highway, stell 55 and Hanover 1.3L.

This trend is not new, as B é La bar é NYI conceived the basic design in the mid-1920s. Josef Ganz developed the standard premium sedan (the most advanced name is Volkswagen). From 1925 to 1928, Hanomag produced 2 / 10 PS "kommissbrot", a small and cheap rear engine car. In addition, in Czechoslovakia, Hans ledinka's pen type Tatra T77 is one of the most popular cars. With each revision, the German elite is getting smaller and more affordable. Ferdinand Porsche, a well-known designer of high-end cars and racing cars, has been trying for years to interest manufacturers in small cars for families. In 1933, he used many popular ideas and some of his own ideas to build a car from scratch called "Volkswagen Auto". He combined the car with air-cooled rear engine, torsion bar suspension and "beetle" shape. The front engine hood is round to improve the aerodynamics performance (because it has a small engine, it is necessary).

Volkswagen is a founding member and namesake member of the Volkswagen Group, a large international company responsible for a number of car and truck brands, including Audi, West Asia, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Scania, man and Skoda. The global headquarters of Volkswagen Group is located in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volkswagen Group is the largest car manufacturer in Europe. For a long time, the market share of Volkswagen has exceeded 20%.

In 2010, Volkswagen released a record sales record of 6.29 million vehicles, with a global market share of 11.4%. Volkswagen became the world's third-largest automaker in 2008, and as of 2016, it was the world's second-largest. According to reports, the strong resistance in 2018 mainly comes from trade tariffs and new emission standards. Volkswagen Group has entered the end line of 2018 and ended the year with a record delivery of 10.8 million vehicles. Volkswagen Group's core markets include Germany and China.

In July 2019, Volkswagen invested $2 billion 600 million in Argo AI, a start-up focused on the development of self driving cars.

Volkswagen has factories in many parts of the world that make or assemble vehicles for the local market. In addition to its German plants, Volkswagen also operates in Mexico, the United States, Slovakia, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya and South Africa. In 2011, Volkswagen ranked in the top 25 of the global top 2000 enterprises of Forbes.

Volkswagen is building a new plant in West Java, Indonesia, which began construction in mid-2013. The investment value of the new plant is $140, which will produce large trucks and vans.

As of May 2014, Volkswagen plans to start assembling some engines in India to increase localization from 70% to 90%.

In January 2016, Volkswagen announced the opening of a new factory in Algeria during a summit between Angela Merkel and Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek sellal. The new plant was set up in Relizane to produce the Volkswagen Golf VII, Volkswagen Polo, Volkswagen Katie, Seat Ibiza and Skoda sharp.

Since 1985, Volkswagen has operated the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg, which commemorates the history of Volkswagen. [84] in addition to visiting the exhibits in person, old-fashioned mass car owners around the world can also order museums, called "birth certificates", for 50 euros - this official "zertifikat" represents the basic information known at that time. Manufacturing (color, options, destination, etc.)