Volkswagen Group of America
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| Subsidiary of Volkswagen AG | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1955) |
| Headquarters | Herndon, Virginia, United States |
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Number of locations
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20 "Operational Facilities" in the US |
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Area served
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North America |
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Key people
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Hinrich Woebcken CEO |
| Products | Automobiles, Automotive parts |
| Services | Automotive financial services |
| Owner | Volkswagen Group |
| Divisions | Volkswagen of America, Audi of America, Bentley Motors Inc., Bugatti of America, Automobili Lamborghini America LLC, VW Credit, Inc. Volkswagen Credit Canada |
| Website | www.volkswagengroupamerica.com |
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (sometimes referred to as Volkswagen of America, abbreviated to VWoA), is the North American operational headquarters, and subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group of automobile companies of Germany. VWoA is responsible for five marques: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Volkswagen cars. It also controls VW Credit, Inc. (or VCI), Volkswagen's financial services and credit operations. The company is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, near Herndon.
In Germany, the parent company Volkswagen AG is responsible for eight marques of the group, from six European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
As of March 2008, VWoA has 20 operational facilities, spanning coast to coast, and its primary objective is "to offer attractive, safe and environmentally sound vehicles which are competitive on an increasingly tough market and which set world standards in their respective classes".
On July 16, 2008, Volkswagen AG announced plans to build its first production facility in the United States since the closure of its Westmoreland Assembly Plant in 1988. The Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant was inaugurated on May 24, 2011 and currently builds the US-spec Volkswagen Passat.
Formed in October 1955 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to standardize dealership service in the United States, it grew to 909 Volkswagen dealers in the US by 1965 under the leadership of Dr. Carl Hahn. Under him and his successor as president of Volkswagen of America, J. Stuart Perkins, VW's U.S. sales grew to 569,696 cars in 1970, an all-time peak, when Volkswagen captured 7 percent of the U.S. car market and had over a thousand American dealerships. The Volkswagen Beetle was the company's best seller in the United States by a wide margin.
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