Gotz, Klingmann to contest Euroseries for RC.

Martin Plowman, Franck Mailleux take squad to five.

The Volkswagen cross-country rally team will return to action for the first time since the Dakar Rally with a two-car assault on the four-day Rally Transibrico.

Volkswagen announced today that its profit climbed about 50 percent last year selling a record 6.2 million cars worldwide. German’s largest automaker said it expects 2008 sales to be even better.

FRANKFURT: German automaker Volkswagen on Friday said its full-year 2007 net profit jumped nearly 50 per cent on solid sales. Net earnings came to 4.12 billion euros (6.3 billion US dollars), surpassing the 3.95-billion-euro consensus forecast of analysts polled by Thomson Financial News.

Martin Plowman, Franck Mailleux take squad to five.

The Volkswagen cross-country rally team will return to action for the first time since the Dakar Rally with a two-car assault on the four-day Rally Transibrico.

A worker takes a Volkswagen (VW) logo for a Tiguan model at the company's plant in the north-western German city of Wolfsburg February 15, 2008. German automaker Volkswagen on Friday said its full-year 2007 net profit jumped nearly 50 percent on solid sales.

BERLIN - Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, said today that its profit climbed about 50 percent in 2007 as it sold a company record of almost 6.2 million cars worldwide.

German automaker Volkswagen on Friday said its full-year 2007 net profit jumped nearly 50 percent on solid sales.