Automakers

Europe's best-seller fights for its long-term survival against EVs, SUVs

The eighth-generation Golf (in green, with earlier versions) is forecast to have global sales that are 1 million units below its predecessor over its life cycle, leading to doubts whether there will be a ninth-generation model.
February 02, 2020 11:12 AM

Amid a raging debate in Germany over the future of the car, the country's president hurried to Wolfsburg to address anxious Volkswagen employees. Society had realized the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves would have to be managed more carefully, the head of state warned that November day, and "can no longer be exploited without consequence."

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