Volkswagen History & Timeline :

Volkswagen / VW was founded in 1937 by the German Car Engineer Ferdinand Porsche.
The German word means "people's car".
Since 1994 VW owns the matching two letter domain name VW.com
making it the company n° 26 on the VB.com Internet Hall of Fame.

Volkswagen VW is the largest brand within the Volkswagen group.

Volkswagen group also owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamogini, Seat, Porsche, Skoda and Scania.