The next three years will be decisive for us, ... If we don't succeed in the next three years, there'll be an acute crisis at Volkswagen.

The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit.

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

The problems aren't dissimilar to what I worked on at Chrysler, ... We have to work on our cost-competitiveness, we need to improve our quality, and we need to come up with new and exciting vehicles.

[Volkswagen] is a company in crisis, ... People need to understand that. They have to change.