{"id":429729,"date":"2010-03-15T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=53031"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:29:54","slug":"winterkorn-volkswagen-stake-in-suzuki-is-of-%e2%80%9cparamount-significance%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429729","title":{"rendered":"Winterkorn: Volkswagen stake in Suzuki is of \u201cparamount significance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/volkswagen_suzuki_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen Group&#8217; chief Martin Winterkorn says that the recent purchase of a 19.9 percent stake in Suzuki is of &#8220;paramount significance&#8221; to both automakers. He said that both automakers are planning to start work on joint projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have set up a joint project office in Wolfsburg to coordinate cooperation,&#8221; Winterkorn said. &#8220;Work on concrete ideas and vehicle projects will begin in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/12\/16\/suzuki-and-volkswagen-projects-to-kick-off-in-jan-2010\/\">Suzuki previously said<\/a> that it is in a &#8220;comprehensive alliance with Volkswagen.&#8221; It said that both companies will work together in every field including hybrid, diesel and electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>Both automakers have plans to produce a competitive small car that they imagine will dominate developing markets.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle\/AllCars\/248152\/\">AutoCar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rKYfx78MqXsCOb43CkzAS_6dq6o\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rKYfx78MqXsCOb43CkzAS_6dq6o\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rKYfx78MqXsCOb43CkzAS_6dq6o\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rKYfx78MqXsCOb43CkzAS_6dq6o\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=HhEMWbpYygQ:3ZahV15NXnI:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen Group&#8217; chief Martin Winterkorn says that the recent purchase of a 19.9 percent stake in Suzuki is of &#8220;paramount significance&#8221; to both automakers. He said that both automakers are planning to start work on joint projects. &#8220;We have set up a joint project office in Wolfsburg to coordinate cooperation,&#8221; Winterkorn said. &#8220;Work on concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}