Volkswagen Group and Martin Winterkorn

Now Winterkorn: Now Winterkorn, 69, is VW best-paid pensioner, and his big goal has been jetisoned by Volkswagen Group new leadership team under CEO Matthias Müller, according to Deutsche Welle. The new team has a new plan, which they're calling "TOGETHER - Strategy 2025." Pretty much everything is supposed to change in Wolfsburg, the company global headquarters, and at all the other locations around the world where the company develops, makes or markets cars, trucks, or buses under a dozen distinct brands, led by Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche. That was Martin Winterkorn dream - formally called "Strategy 2018" - when the gruff engineer was CEO of Volkswagen Group, before "Dieselgate" cost him his job in September last year. New goals Unter Winterkorn autocratic leadership, gigantomania was the main order of business. But somehow, or so he claimed in the wake of Dieselgate, he never noticed that the emissions from VW diesel cars had been thoroughly rigged for years, misrepresenting the pollution-spewing VW diesel engines as "clean diesel." And he was an old-school auto maker who wasn't at all interested in new-fangled gadgetry like electric cars. Winterkorn was a details-obsessed autocrat who went around showrooms measuring the fit and finish of the company cars, and loosing his wrath upon his minions when they didn't meet his exacting standards. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.