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At this time, Giorgetto Giugiaro, who also creates the Passat and the Scirocco, is already in charge of the design. Under the direction of chief designer Herbert Schäfer, the Golf is further developed for series production. 1969–1971 VOLKSWAGEN EA 337 Step-by-step Golf Initially with rectangular headlights and a flatter windscreen, then further refined. Sporty centre Good overall concept, but room for improvement in the detail. 1969 VOLKSWAGEN EA 276 8 | 9 50 J ah re G ol f Sc hö pf un g ENTERING A NEW AGE Clear lines, pure design – the new Volkswagen was a revolutionary development in 1974. Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the Golf and created an icon, no less. Giorgetto Giugiaro, one of the most important automotive designers of our time, stands for simplicity and innovative design – and he also played an important role for Volkswagen. With the creation of a new model family, Giugiaro also designed Volkswagen’s new style from 1970. Maestro Giugiaro still likes to remember the creation of the Golf even after decades, and spoke about it with the Volkswagen Classic editorial team at Italdesign in Turin a few years ago. At the first meeting in Wolfsburg in January 1970, the then Volkswagen CEO Kurt Lotz quickly got to the point: ‘We want you to design a successor to the Beetle for us. And we will be satisfied if the space in the interior is about the same as that of the Beetle,’ recalled Giugiaro. There were also already specifications from Volkswagen: ‘They showed me sketches and diagrams, and then talked about the project of an entire model family and asked if I would be prepared to take on the task – and I was extremely happy about this opportunity.’ The ideas about the new model type were just as specific. ‘The new mass-produced car should be a modern compact car with a boot lid – in other words, a variable vehicle in line with the new trend. Volkswagen already recognised that correctly back then.’

THE PASSAT IS THE BEST-SELLING MID-SIZE MODEL IN THE WORLD 18 December 2018: more than 29 million Passat, eight generations of the car, have been sold so far across the world. 150 MILLION VOLKSWAGEN 24 August 2017 Volkswagen has assembled exactly 150 million vehicles since production began roughly 72 years ago. MILLION VEHICLES FROM WOLFSBURG 5 June 2018 Volkswagen’s main plant in Wolfsburg has produced 45 million vehicles since the start of series production in December 1945. No other location within the group has built more vehicles. 60 MILLION ENGINES FROM SALZGITTER 12 February 2019 The 60 millionth engine since production started 49 years ago is manufactured at the Volkswagen plant in Salzgitter. MILLION TIGUAN January 2019 Historic production milestone: in just eleven years, five million vehicles from the compact SUV range have rolled off the production line. 1 2 3 The most successful models in Volkswagen history: 1st place: Golf (over 35 million) 2nd place: Passat (over 29 million) 3rd place: Beetle (over 21.5 million) 111,111,111 10 11 Volkswagen Records. ID. R Records. Volkswagen Records. ID. R Records. 1 Americans also call the hill climb on Pikes Peak the “Race to the Clouds”. At times, the ID. R was actually above the clouds in the top section of the route, on the final kilometres before the summit. 2 Romain Dumas has driven pretty much anything on four wheels over the course of his career – from desert buggy at the Dakar Rally to LMP1 prototype for his two victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He claimed his fourth victory on Pikes Peak with the Volkswagen ID. R. 3 Volkswagen Motorsport Director Sven Smeets is visibly relieved – shortly after Romain Dumas’ record attempt, a change in the weather brought heavy hailstorms. “That is one of the features of this race – you need to have a bit of luck too,” said Smeets. Pikes Peak was merely the beginning. When Romain Dumas guided the fully-electric ID.

At the Volkswagen brand’s stand, which is around the same size as half a soccer pitch, the highlights include the Passat facelift, the T-Roc R, and the ID. Buggy concept car. A project team of 20 people worked on the exhibition for the brand. The Swiss trade fair is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious motor shows, and has a global importance. This year, the organizers expect more than 600,000 visitors and around 150 world and European premieres. → PAGE 16/17/18 The new Passat1 The ID. Buggy ² Near-production-ready concept car. ¹ Concept car. 2 inside New Workplaces: Fünf Prinzipien für einen Volkswagen Office Trakt i New workspace: project room at Audi AG, Ingolstadt. “Telephone booth”: new individual workstation at Porsche AG, Zuffenhausen. New standard workstation: Volkswagen AG, IT City Wolfsburg. New Group Software to Strengthen Teamwork Office 365 is gradually being deployed – more storage space for employees T he conversion to Office 365 software will begin in the next few weeks. It’s meant to make working in a team easier. inside answers the most important questions: What is Office 365? Many Volkswagen employees know the Office software by Microsoft through programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The new Office 365 is a Cloud-based evolution, containing a total of more than 40 applications and services. “It’s meant to make office work in the Volkswagen Group more flexible,” says Mario Müller, Head of IT Integration & Services. Who will be affected by the changeover? Office 365 will be introduced Groupwide. The first step starts with Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, and Audi. The aim is to gradually convert all employees in the indirect workplace (office workspaces) by the end of the year. IT will migrate a total of 423,000 mailboxes. “The individual departments will be contacted again and informed by us six weeks in advance,” says project leader Martina Sandfuchs. What are the advantages to employees?

From 1998, he held various leadership roles in the Planning business unit for Components, before taking on the role of project manager for the Tiguan at “Auto 5000” in 2005. In 2009, Schwartz took over Planning at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, and in 2015, Production Planning for the Volkswagen brand. Since 2019, he has also been responsible for toolmaking and plant construction. 360° September 2019 21 mp ??!! YEARS IDEAS MANAGE MENT A Look Back: The Ideas Management department at the Volkswagen brand’s German plants is celebrating its 70th birthday: In 1949, when the Volkswagenwerk GmbH was handed over to the German state, it was still known as the “suggestion scheme”. Exactly how many employee ideas have been examined and rewarded since then is hard to say. But in the last 20 years alone, employees have submitted around 1.5 million ideas for review. 1The most successful submitter of ideas at Volkswagen submitted exactly 4,651 ideas in 27 years and received rewards amounting to millions (calculated in Deutsche Mark) when they came to fruition. 2 The new maximum reward of 75,000 euros introduced in February 2019 was paid out for the first time after only four months – to two employees at the Wolfsburg site who submitted an idea to improve the ventilation of the cooling system. This idea has already saved the company around half a million euros in the first six months. 3 The year with the most ideas ever submitted was 2001 – 95,645 ideas with a benefit of around 148 million euros for the company. 4 In the last year, em-ployees submitted 42,729 ideas, saving the company 127,590,564 euros. Did You Know ...? → Since 1970, there has been a separate department for employee suggestions that is part of the Human Resources division. The first head of department was Herbert Nowak. Today, it’s Thorsten Janotta.

He holds a degree in business administration and has worked for the Volkswagen Group since 2005. Seitz’s career started at Daimler-Benz in 1987. In Working. Together. Easily: This is the motto of the Group-wide Office 365 project. It’s about more than just introducing a new system. “Digitalization is transforming the working world. It is becoming more flexible and free. Our work tools need to reflect that. In the course of the Office 365 launch, we will give employees the tools for new, modern forms of digital collaboration,” says Linda Dressler-Jahnel, who is responsible for Communication & Change in the Office 365 project. Share files and work on documents Group-wide Office 365 is a package that combines various Cloud-based applications, such as Outlook and PowerPoint, with new functionalities, such as Teams. With the transition, inbox storage will be increased to 100 gigabytes and the personal drive, OneDrive for Business, increased to 1 terabyte. The Microsoft Teams application shows how working together will become easier. “Teams offers the ability to communicate easily, share files, and work on documents together across the Group,” says Martin Mensing, Office 365 Project Manager. With four simple clicks, every employee can create a cross- departmental, cross-division, or cross-brand team – and a virtual workspace is immediately available. “There, I can exchange information with my colleagues and work on documents at the same time. I’m not reliant on sharing drives and have an overview of the current progress of shared files,” says Mensing. The step-by-step transition to Office 365 is in full swing. Every Volkswagen employee will be migrated to the new system.

Markus Kleimann is the new manager for the G3 Series (mid-/ full size) for the Passat and the Touareg. In an interview with 360°, he talks about his first impressions of the team and more. → PAGE 14 Geneva Motor Show: The Golf and the ID. in Focus Good Ideas by Employees Save Millions Family Day: Apply Now! G3 Series: New Manager ALL ABOUT VOLKSWAGEN – THE EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE FOR OUR LOCATION | FEBRUARY 2020 Digitalization and Climate Change: Herbert Diess Weighs In become a digital tech company. “The big question is: are we fast enough?” If the company continues at the current pace, he says time will be “very tight”. The Group has extensive technical expertise, a top leadership team, and the resources to make Digitalization, the associated transformation of Volkswagen into a software-driven automotive company, as well as climate change and the consequences for Volkswagen: These were the big issues that Herbert Diess focused on in important talks in Berlin and Brussels, and after his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Here 360° provides a summary. What Diess had to say at the meeting of the Group’s top-level management in Berlin: Volkswagen needs to move considerably quicker in its transformation into a software-driven automotive company, said the CEO. The company is currently right in the middle of the two biggest transformation processes. These are climate change and the associated pressure to develop innovations in emission-free driving, and digitalization, which will fundamentally change the car as a product. So far, Volkswagen has performed well. “However, the real challenge is only just beginning,” said the CEO, stressing that Volkswagen must transformation happen, says Diess: “What we are missing more than anything is speed and the courage to make bold and radical changes when necessary. We need a shared understanding of the radical nature of change.”

The Shooting Brake combines the expressive design gene of the Fastback with the everyday usability of a Passat Variant. We are very proud of the new Arteon’s many “wow” moments. Making it electric was particularly important to us – we wanted to emphasize our sustainability aspirations and appeal even more to eco-conscious customers. And the new Arteon has also been given a technological upgrade. It’s completely digital and connected, and boasts the latest safety systems – most of which come as standard.” Hendrik Muth, Head of Product Marketing The Look of the New Arteon3 and Arteon Shooting Brake3 Introducing the New Tiguan Cool design and highly functional: The interiors of both Arteon models boast plenty of space. for many successful models worldwide. Volkswagen is now taking the next step by electrifying, digitalizing, and networking the new Tiguan. The compact SUV is thereby well-equipped for the challenges of our time.” All the important technical areas have been updated: Volkswagen has electrified the Tiguan with a cutting-edge plug-in-hybrid option1. It is also making a separate Tiguan R1 version available for the first time. The performance experts at Volkswagen R have developed a new all-wheel-drive system with torque splitter for the dynamic range-topper. The variable power distribution between the back wheels results in a completely new SUV driving experience. With its new twin-dosing technology, the Volkswagen Tiguan’s turbodiesel engines2 (TDI) join the ranks of the world’s cleanest combustion engines. Thanks to the new Travel Assist feature, the compact SUV now also offers assisted driving at speeds of up to 210 km/h. The Tiguan has a brand-new spectrum of internet-based functions and services on board via the latest generation of infotainment systems (MIB3). A 480-watt sound system by the audio specialists Harman Kardon can also be chosen as an optional extra.