Volkswagen Group increases its involvement in the car rental market with the takeover of the "Selbstfahrer-Union", Germany's largest automobile rental agency. Renamed "interRent Autovermietung GmbH", the subsidiary merges in 1988 with Europcar and is renamed "Europcar International S.A.". Volkswagen owns a 50% interest in the company located in Boulogne, which operates in eight countries and has its own fleet of 40,000 vehicles. On January 1, 2000, Volkswagen assumes 100% ownership of Europcar group.

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