Volkswagen Volkswagen Volkswagen (), shortened to VW (), is a German automaker founded on 28 May 1937 by the German Labour Front under Adolf Hitler and headquartered in Wolfsburg. It is the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group, the largest automaker by worldwide sales in 2016 and 2017. The group's main market is in China, which delivers 40% of its sales and profits. "Volkswagen" literally in German means "folk's wagon" (so in basic terms "people's car"), and the company's current international advertising slogan is just "Volkswagen", a reference of the name's meaning. Volkswagen was originally established in 1932 by the German
Mean longitude Mean longitude Mean longitude is the ecliptic longitude at which an orbiting body could be found if its orbit were circular and free of perturbations. While nominally a simple longitude, in practice the mean longitude does not correspond to any one physical angle. From these definitions, the "mean longitude", "l", is the angular distance the body would have from the reference direction if it moved with uniform speed, measured along the ecliptic from ♈︎ to the ascending node, then up along the plane of the body's orbit to its mean position. Mean longitude, like mean anomaly, does not measure an