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Klaus Zyciora Head of design, Volkswagen Group

’I’VE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN CARS, since I was a small child. I always played with cars; they were my favourite toys. As soon as I was able to wash cars I washed them, for small change. And of course I started drawing relatively early: cars, boats and planes – moveable objects have been the subject from the very beginning.

Cars of all types were fascinating to me, and growing up I could recognise every car from a distance, and when they came closer I could say which model it was. So I could tell them apart already from a very young age: that one is a Mercedes, this is a BMW, American cars… all types were of great interest. Especially VWs, which were always part of the family garage. The route to Volkswagen was laid out by

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