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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…

This may be one of the most interesting, and most disgusting Volkswagen Beetles to ever come from the small car maker. An eco-friendly fuel company has replaced the regular fuel and engine components of an all new VW Beetle to run on humans...human excrement that is.

GENeco and the man in charge Mohammed Saddiq have created what is being dubbed the "Bio Bug" - Converted to run on methane gas produced by human waste, the Volkswagen Beetle can maintain a top speed of 114 mph. The 2.0-liter car performs just as well on methane as on conventional fuel.

"Previously…