Comments on: Volkswagen to take over Porsche – reports

By: puzzled

puzzled — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:54:06 +0000

It used to be that Audi. Porsche and Volkswagen where all the same company. Can anybody give a quick listing of what hapened since the seventies?

By: gearboxdawg

gearboxdawg — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:54:46 +0000

How dramatic the tables have turned in VW’s favour. Now the big fish is gobbling up the smaller fish. Welcome to Darwinism.

By: RamSpeed ®

RamSpeed ® — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:34:29 +0000

Wheelnut. That’s an idea!, although I think the concept wasn’t VW’s, nor was it very usable, none the less, take the best and mix it all up a little to put some fire under some of their competitors. (eg. Audi, which seems to be having it all together right now.)

By: Wheelnut®™

Wheelnut®™ — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:02:08 +0000

Either way it means the possibility of a Golf GTi with the engine brakes suspension and AWD system from a Porsche Carrera [and obligatory flared guards etc] – which could then become a rival to the Evo vs WRX..

Afterall VW created an awesome AWD Golf GTi Concept Car a couple of years ago using a W12 – whereas the Porsche engine would provide just as much power and be more user friendly

By: SamR

SamR — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:19 +0000

Shane “As much as I like Porsche to be independent”

They cannot be independent anymore, there are whole of car marker CO2 restrictions in place soon which means Porsche could not remain is business. Their thirsty cars have to be part of a bigger maker to “dilute” the CO2 across many smaller cars. Hence VW.

By: observer

observer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:28:03 +0000

FrugalOne has nailed it….Two very old German companies with a lot of pride and both CEO with a long running ego fued.

How could Porsche seriously take over VW as they cant even raise enough capital from their lending partners to fund future program developments etc.

By: Baddass

Baddass — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:53:54 +0000

Volkswagen would have to be my fave car group, because it owns all my favourite companies: Bentley, Skoda and SEAT.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:29:24 +0000

This is great news. I would much rather see those two companies stay in German hands than be bought out by a bunch of Arab dictators.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:36:24 +0000

As much as I like Porsche to be independent, its not all bad news. Piech is a master engineer and was responsible for the Bugatti Veyron, Porsche 959, 917, the original Audi quattro and may other landmark cars. Hopefully he will allow Porsche to do what it does best and continue to build awesome performance cars.

No disrespect to Wiedeking, if it was not for him there would be no Porsche but there is a silver lining to this dark cloud for Porsche

By: Jake02

Jake02 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:18:24 +0000

Shak:
Too true man, too true!

Go VW, I hope they achieve number one sales and make Toyota piss off (I really loathe Toyota I’m sorry). When Porsche announced plans to buy VW I wasn’t happy (knowing that my car, as well as all other VW Group cars would have built buy a company owned by a much smaller one) and I was so suprised that such a small company wanted to buy such a big one.

But now, the tables have turned for Porsche. Doesn’t this whole fiasco involve the related Porsche and VW families? Aren’t they having a tiff and have been for years?

Keep taking over the world VW, your tech/ideas cannot be missed (like cars that achieve similar greeness to the stupid Prius yet cost much less to develop and buy too)!