VW ahead of schedule to be world's biggest: Volkswagen has set itself the target of being the world's number one car maker by 2018. But it might get there as soon as 2015

摘要

When Volkswagen Group chief Martin Winterkorn predicted in 2008 that the firm would be the world's biggest car company within 10 years, he appeared impossibly optimistic. VW's annual production then trailed behind Toyota's and General Motors' by more than three million vehicles.