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Jonathan Browning, a former higher-up at General Motors and Ford, was named chief at the Volkswagen Group of America on Monday. Browning hopes to lead the company as it moves to improve US sales.

Browning, who handles the Volkswagen Group's national sales companies, will become president and chief executive effective Oct. 1 2010.

He previously was vice president of global sales, service and marketing at GM and oversaw the company's European sales from 2001 to 2008. He also worked for Ford Europe and also Jaguar, as a marketing official from 1997 to 2001. Browning replaces Stefan Jacoby, who…

Volkswagen has been keeping its Passat facelift for 2011 under wraps for a while now. But it appears  that a new alleged photo of 2011's Volkswagen Passat has surfaced on the website of Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet. The paper has sourced the photo directly to VW, handed to the paper by a distributor in Norway.

This supposed Passat image shows a car with new headlights that do away with the bulged design on the current Passat. The lenses look to be shaped slightly different than those seen in a previous leaked image.

What is the same is the new, flat…