Meet the boss
Name: Martin Winterkorn
Title: VW Group CEO
Age: 66
Main challenge: To make VW Group the world's biggest automaker by vehicle sales by 2018 as well as No. 1 in customer satisfaction and environmental sustainability while still maintaining a pre-tax profit margin of 8 percent.
Martin Winterkorn faced widespread skepticism when he said Volkswagen Group would sell 10 million cars a year by 2018, making it the world's largest automaker. Now the CEO says the company will reach its volume target earlier than planned. He admits that slow take-up of VW Group's forthcoming alternative-powertrain vehicles could undermine his plan, but he is confident that the automaker's plug-in hybrids, electric cars and hybrids will be winners with customers.
