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English translation – business:

Daimler wants to keep VW trucks at a distance
Volkswagen wants to forge a truck giant out of MAN and Scania, which will dethrone market leader Daimler. The Swabians want to keep their edge by introducing new “modular systems” – and smart trucks.           
They were colleagues for a long time. Now they are the fiercest of rivals: Wolfgang Bernhard, Daimler Trucks Chief, and Andreas Renschler, Volkswagen Trucks Chief. Three weeks ago, Renschler, a longtime member of the Daimler executive board, started his new top job in the domain governed by Ferdinand Piëch, and he has to address many questions including this one: Frankfurt or Hamburg? Now that the Scania and MAN subsidiaries have merged, which location is best suited to manage Volkswagen’s newly merged truck division?