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Wolfsburg, we have a problem: How Volkswagen stalled in China
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People walk past a showroom of SAIC Volkswagen in Chengdu, China, on Jan 10, 2021.
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BEIJING (REUTERS) - In late December 2019, managers at Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg realised that they might have a serious problem in China, the company's biggest market and ticket to its electric future.
Its flagship Passat sedan had fared badly in an unofficial safety test carried out by an insurance industry body which simulated a front-on driver's side collision, a test that's been widely used in the United States for around a decade.
