Matthias Muller
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Two days after Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn stepped down amid the company's emissions scandal, the beleaguered company has found a new CEO.

Top Porsche executive Matthias Müller will become Volkswagen's new CEO, the company announced Friday. Müller, 62, previously worked as Volkswagen's head project strategist before moving to Porsche — also owned by the Volkswagen Group — in 2010.

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