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Micheline Maynard

Press Nearly Mum As VW Displaces GM As World's Number Two Automaker
January 31st, 2014 4:58 PM
In yet another negative milestone for the bailouts that supposedly saved the U.S. auto industry — already a hard-to-handle claim given that Chrysler, one of the two beneficiaries, is now 100% owned by an Italian company — Volkswagen has surpassed General Motors as the world's number two automaker behind Toyota.
The reporting on this development has been quite sparse. It's not news at the…