Central Europe

- Team Dakar USA to enter two HUMMER H3 race trucks in Central Europe Rally
- Team HUMMER to enter four stock class HUMMER race trucks in Terrible’s 250

DETROIT, 2008-04-17 - HUMMER off-road racing teams are making final preparations to demonstrate their off-road prowess on opposite sides of the globe this weekend. The competition begins with Team HUMMER’s entry in Best in the Desert Racing Series Terrible’s 250 at Primm, April 19, and concludes with Robby Gordon Motorsport’s Team Dakar USA’s HUMMER H3 race trucks competing in the inaugural Dakar Series Central Europe Rally, April 20-26.

Volkswagen TSI Twinchargers Win the Votes in Eastern and Central Europe as TechnoBest Award for supercharger-turbocharger combination by 15-nation jury in Istanbul awards its prize to TSI engines

Wolfsburg, 21 February 2008 - At a ceremony in Istanbul, Volkswagen last night received the renowned “TechnoBest” technology prize for its TSI engines. The prize is awarded by a motoring jury from the automobile markets of Eastern and Central Europe. The jury said the Volkswagen TSI demonstrated genuine advancement in the field of petrol-engine technology.

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Annual Growth of Diesel Light-Vehicle Demand in Eastern Europe, Asia and North America Set to Surpass That of Western Europe

OXFORD: 16 January 2008 — Annual growth of diesel light-vehicle demand in Eastern Europe, Asia and North America combined is projected to surpass growth in Western Europe by the early part of the next decade, according to the J.D. Power and Associates Automotive Forecasting Global Diesel Light-Vehicle ForecastSM.

Hanover/Puchov, November 8, 2007 -- Continental AG has acquired a majority interest in the Slovak company Continental Matador Rubber s.r.o. and is pressing ahead with the organisational integration of the tire, engineering and conveyor belt operations

Continental AG in Hanover has acquired a 51% interest in Continental Matador Rubber s.r.o. based in Puchov, Slovakia.

The tire and conveyor belt busi­ness, together with the rubber processing equipment business unit, were separated beforehand from the parent company Matador a.s., which now holds a 49% interest in the joint company.

Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Central Europe confers second place on new production process

- New record: 4.61 million vehicles delivered in the first nine months
- Substantial growth in South America, Asian-Pacific region and Central and Eastern Europe

Wolfsburg, 18 October 2007 - The Volkswagen Group delivered 4.61 million vehicles world-wide between January and September 2007, setting a new record for the first nine months of a year. This corresponds to an increase of 8.2 percent compared to the same period last year. September likewise demonstrated a new record for the same month in any year: 545,500 vehicles sold mean an increase of 6.5 percent compared to September 2006.