Press Release
• A top value among European automakers
• Record-breaking vehicle XL Sport makes its world debut at Paris Motor
Show
• French film icon Catherine Deneuve receives €200,000 donation for
“Cinema for Peace”
Wolfsburg/Paris, October 1, 2014 – A new record for the Volkswagen Group: Europe’s
leading automaker has now produced 200 million vehicles. Volkswagen is one of the
few manufacturers in the world to have reached this impressive total. At the Group
evening, the sports car study Volkswagen XL Sport made its world debut as the 200
millionth Group vehicle. On the occasion of the production record, actress Catherine
Deneuve, founding chairperson of “Cinema for Peace”, received a check for a
donation of €200,000 from the Chairman of the Board of Management of the
Volkswagen Group, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.
