Volkswagen’s days of producing a “global icon” may have seemed behind it. But last month Gunnar Kilian, who sits on the management board of Europe’s biggest carmaker, gushed on LinkedIn that vw had done just that. Mr Kilian was not raving about a fancy new car model, though. VW’s very own currywurst—a German sausage with spicy tomato sauce—has become, he declared, a “cult” product, with “international bestseller status”.
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