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Hi group,
The latest press release from my American colleagues.  Can an Audi
version be far behind?  Who knows, stay tuned.  One can only hope.
Regards,
Eric Carlson
VW AP Hong Kong


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         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
         August 21, 1995

         CONTACT: Tony Fouladpour
                  (810) 340-5064

              For CompuServe Internet Division:
              Rebecca Gelinas
              (206) 442-2598

                     VOLKSWAGEN OPENS INTERNET WEB SITE

         AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Volkswagen of America, Inc.
         announced today that it has now established a homepage on
         the Internet World Wide Web and will team up with
         CompuServe?s Internet Division to proactively send out an
         innovative new software that will connect people to the
         Internet and bring them directly into the new Volkswagen
         homepage.
              Volkswagen said it will mail a customized version of
         CompuServe?s Mosaic Direct diskettes to 500,000 of its
         owners in the U.S. and Canada, providing the software
         needed for a direct, instant Internet connection to the
         Volkswagen site.
              Volkswagen is the first automaker to proactively
         recruit Internet users to its site in this manner.
              CompuServe?s Mosaic Direct diskettes will be mailed
         during the next week to Volkswagen owners and will also be
         included in the automaker?s new 1996 models.  The software
         will be provided free of charge along with seven hours of
         access to the Internet.
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              "The Mosaic Direct software brings the customer to
         the Volkswagen site directly," said Bill Gelgota, who
         heads Volkswagen?s advertising in the United States. "It
         is a proactive way for us to give our customers a link to
         the company."
              Volkswagen?s new homepage is designed to inform and
         entertain Volkswagen customers and prospects.  It
         incorporates the look and attitude of the automaker?s new
         advertising campaign that was launched nationally last
         month and created by Volkswagen?s new agency in the United
         States, Arnold Fortuna Lawner & Cabot of Boston. The

         campaign centers around a bold new theme: "On the road of
         life, there are passengers and there are drivers.  Drivers
         wanted."
              Using this theme, the Volkswagen Internet Web Site
         was designed to be different from most other automotive
         web sites that are mostly text based, on-line brochures.
         Volkswagen?s site features a road map, which acts as the
         home page, navigating the user to various general subject
         sites.  These roadside sites include a Visitors Center, a
         Campground, a Store, a Dealer Showroom, Research and
         Design Centers, a Newsstand and a Rest Area.  There is
         even a road called "Shakedown Street" which will take the
         viewer down a road built in memory of Jerry Garcia, the
         late leader of the Grateful Dead.
              "The concept of the road map allows the site to grow
         over time," said
         Gelgota.  "It will have a place for suggestions and
         comments which we will use so that the site can grow with
         the interests of the users in mind."
              The web sited can be accessed at http://www.vw.com.
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              The Mosaic Direct software to be mailed to Volkswagen
         owners is a customized version of the award-winning SPRY
         Mosaic browser, which makes it easy for customers to
         connect on the World Wide Web.  This software only
         requires the user to have a PC, 9600 baud modem and the
         ability to point-and-click a mouse.  No higher level of
         computer skill or knowledge is needed.
              An estimated six million people are on the Web.  This
         constitutes only 10 percent of the 66 million Windows
         users who have the hardware and operating system to access
         the Internet but lack the software.


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