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FORTUNE -- Volkswagen AG's new Passat midsize family sedan this fall will tussle for buyers with formidable competitors like Toyota's (TM) Camry, Honda's (HMC) Accord, Ford's (F) Fusion and Chevrolet's (GM) Malibu. Midsize sedans play in the the fattest, most important slice of the U.S. automotive market, one where companies fight the hardest to gain share. Thorough May, midsize cars comprised more than a half of all cars sold in the U.S. and more than a quarter of all vehicles sold, including minivans and sport utilities. Passat has been in the U.S.

By David Zanoni:There is something out there that has plans for world domination and it's not the Joker from Batman. It's Volkswagen (VLKAY.PK) - which plans to become the world's largest automaker by 2018. I admire the company for setting a lofty goal and working towards achieving it.

In what must be an explicable move to momentum-chasers everywhere, as gold continued to decline in price in March, and long before its targeted smash in April, China was not backing off its gold purchases of the yellow product.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG will add 800 jobs at its only U.S. plant, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to increase production of the small Passat sedan, the company said on Thursday. Volkswagen has not said how much production will increase at the plant, but has said that by next year it will produce 170,000 Passats at its U.S. plant, which opened in May 2011. The 800 new hires will be added to the plant's existing workforce of 2,200 Volkswagen workers and another 500 who work for a firm called Aerotek. In the first two months of the year, Volkswagen sold 14,500 Passat sedans.

TORONTO — At Canadian Tire Corp.’s annual spring convention here, the mood among dealers and executives was jubilant. A sense of relief also was palpable across the vast convention centre floor as the event wrapped up this weekend, coming after the company and its 490 store owners last week struck a new 11-year contract, a culmination of two years of negotiations. We much rather would be walking together in partnership than fighting each other in the alley