UPDATE~Porsche to buy VW... LIKELY, more new news 10-26-08 Options

[lotus_65]

update 10-25-08

"FRANKFURT -- Porsche Automobil Holding SE said Friday the rift between its owners, the Piëch and Porsche families, has been resolved, and both families now fully support Porsche Chief Executive Wendelin Wiedeking's plan to take over Volkswagen AG."

update 10-22-07

new article 9-1-2007

Porsche to buy VW, 3-24-07

[thomasotten]

This is a mixed blessing. While I think it is good that these two companies are together again, it clearly shows that the EU has considerable power over what goes on in the member states. Similar to what our Supreme court has been doing over the last few decades, the EU court is declaring local laws (the people's voice) null and void. In the long run, I think you will see more foreign control of what were once "German" companies, and the same goes for other member states, the article gives several examples.

[Cap'n Krusty]

This is a mixed blessing. While I think it is good that these two companies are together again, it clearly shows that the EU has considerable power over what goes on in the member states. Similar to what our Supreme court has been doing over the last few decades, the EU court is declaring local laws (the people's voice) null and void. In the long run, I think you will see more foreign control of what were once "German" companies, and the same goes for other member states, the article gives several examples.

"These two companies are together again"? Might want to go back to my previous post, early in the thread. Wait, I'll save you the effort. Here's what I said:

"Together 'AGAIN' "? They've NEVER been together. Never. The Cap'n

[dlestep]

This is a mixed blessing. While I think it is good that these two companies are together again, it clearly shows that the EU has considerable power over what goes on in the member states. Similar to what our Supreme court has been doing over the last few decades, the EU court is declaring local laws (the people's voice) null and void. In the long run, I think you will see more foreign control of what were once "German" companies, and the same goes for other member states, the article gives several examples.

"These two companies are together again"? Might want to go back to my previous post, early in the thread. Wait, I'll save you the effort. Here's what I said:

"Together 'AGAIN' "? They've NEVER been together. Never. The Cap'n

...Cap'n...I think that these guys confuse American marketing with European corporations....in the late sixties and early seventies, Americans marketed VW + Audi + Porsches in their distributorships, (I don't have to tell you that).
...and the fact that VW built our 914s, and that Porsche purchased those bodies and updated all of the running gear and suspensions to create the 914/6. In Europe the 914/4 was a VW and the 914/6 was a VW with a Porsche engine.
The Europeans saw the 914 as a VoPo no matter what.
State side however, we saw the 914/4 as a Porsche with a VW engine and a 914/6 a real Porsche.
Myself, I saw Porsche attempting to combine the suggested lines of more than one historical automobile, the tried and tested mid-ship layout, the interior layout of the 904 and combinations of queues from the Abarth. Everyone became stuck on the VW / Porsche thing, totally missing that the birth of Porsche came from his efforts on the VW and the VW components used to give rise to the earliest Porsches. (So what?) I have this argument with all 550/356 Carrera guys (with their noses in the air) all the time.
I enjoy the fact that like the 904, 906, 908, 909 hillclimb car, the 914's ability to accept multiple engine formats and its' inherent nimble characteristics branch away from the norm, and all of the skeptics don't get it and don't remember that Porsche drove the design queues not VW...We my friends have a unique car, not a bastard, but a developed format with true racing legacy, not high volume crap that everyone else drives.