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Golf sales blitz

Wolfsburg - Volkswagen's launch of its most important model featured a celebrity party in Berlin and an advertising blitz in every German city.

VW received approximately 40,000 orders for the fifth generation Golf October 18-19, the car's first weekend on sale in Germany.

VW plans to build 135,000 new Golfs this year for western Europe; 60,000 to 70,000 cars will be available to customers in Germany.

VW aims to produce 600,000 Golfs annually starting in 2004.

- Automobilwoche

Lotus safety bid

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