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    Mar 9, 2008 8:41:20 AM

    JimFlat6
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    Porsche #1 Car Builder In the World

    The VW-Porsche deal wich would give Porsche control of a 11 marque automotive industrial empire will make Porsche the largest car company in the world.

    As Ugandas notorious Idi Dada Amin said "Let your dreams become your rights!"

    Piech's Unstoppable Passion! Click Here !

    You have to admire Herr Piech for his vision and plan!

    Mar 9, 2008 5:37:02 PM

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    UK journalism at its lowest. After reading Pieech described as Lord, King, Godfather, a serially polygamous, genetically crypto-Nazi billionaire, the rest of the "article" is mere blather.

    Mar 9, 2008 11:27:24 PM

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    British press at its finest .

    Mar 10, 2008 4:01:08 AM

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    VW is far from being the largest car company. GM is, and Toyota a close second. VW is in trouble now and needs to cut a lot of fat. In the US ai would not buy a current VW... there are far better offerings out there.

    Mar 10, 2008 4:47:57 AM

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    Ye of little faith!

    Mar 10, 2008 9:26:34 AM

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    I would not buy a US-market VW either. They need to fix the quality standards at their Mexican plant. The USD/EUR exchange rate will keep German-made VWs from the US market for a long time, though...

    Mar 10, 2008 10:56:23 AM

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    British journalism just isn't what it used to be

    Mar 10, 2008 3:26:49 PM

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    Actually Toyota is currently the largest.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaker

    Mar 10, 2008 4:18:49 PM

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    I would not buy a US-market VW either. They need to fix the quality standards at their Mexican plant. The USD/EUR exchange rate will keep German-made VWs from the US market for a long time, though...


    We have a Mexican built Beetle in the family for 3 1/2 years now and the quality is excellent.

    Mar 10, 2008 6:17:41 PM

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    I would not buy a US-market VW either. They need to fix the quality standards at their Mexican plant. The USD/EUR exchange rate will keep German-made VWs from the US market for a long time, though...


    We have a Mexican built Beetle in the family for 3 1/2 years now and the quality is excellent.



    I had a friend who was GM mechanic about 10 years ago. They used to get lots of Mexican-built cars in for water leaks. As they pulled out the carpet and sound insulation they would find rivets and cigarette butts and stuff. Hopefully they have improved since then.

    Mar 11, 2008 4:11:36 PM

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    So.. no takeover after all ?
    http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080310.016/porsche-doesnt-want-to-take-over-vw-after-all

    Mar 11, 2008 4:50:30 PM

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    It's the 75% figure they are disputing. Not the fact that they're going above 50%.

    Mar 11, 2008 5:32:08 PM

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    But despite 12 offspring, by four women, Piech-watchers say that car companies are his real family.



    Gosh! I didn't know Piech was a Muslim.

    Mar 11, 2008 5:43:39 PM

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    Is there anything in the Koran about having affairs with one's cousin's wife?

    Mar 11, 2008 6:06:37 PM

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    But despite 12 offspring, by four women, Piech-watchers say that car companies are his real family.



    Gosh! I didn't know Piech was a Muslim.



    It's not just the Muslims who have a high sex drive .

    Mar 11, 2008 10:21:38 PM

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    Is there anything in the Koran about having affairs with one's cousin's wife?



    Give him full credit. He also got his cousins maid pregnant.

    Piech likes having many brands, many women and paying for many kids birthday parties-12 a year! Is his stealth car a 80's Porsche powered Vanagon??

    How do all of those now grown up kids park their cars at his house at Christmas time? Or is their a shuttle bus to his house?

    Mar 11, 2008 11:49:57 PM

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    I met one of his kids at Porsche Driving School.
    He is 22 and already has a GT3 :P

    Jim, With the salary Piech gets from Porsche, i believe he got plenty of space for all the kids' cars

    Mar 12, 2008 3:18:48 AM

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    I would not buy a US-market VW either. They need to fix the quality standards at their Mexican plant. The USD/EUR exchange rate will keep German-made VWs from the US market for a long time, though...



    My comments apply equally to EU-built VWs. Sorry!

    Mar 12, 2008 3:20:33 AM

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    Actually Toyota is currently the largest.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaker



    Fix Wikipedia! GM is still the largest. Perhaps for not much longer, but today, still the largest. Sorry if you wanted Toyita to be it.

    Mar 12, 2008 7:15:59 AM

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    doesn't effect me one way or the other. I'm a fan of neither.
    ..but I'd check your information.
    BTW, WW has said that VW will be challenging Toyota for the #1 spot.

    Mar 12, 2008 3:39:19 PM

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    I remember rebuilding my VW engine years ago. I got a set of cylinders made in Mexico.

    Freaked me out a bit but I accepted the real world fact that not everything can be made in Germany.

    One of the cylinders had a small "X" scratched on the external surface at the base of the sleeve.

    I installed it anyway.

    Turns out the cylinder was defective and I had to rebuild it a year or so later because that cylinder.

    Sooooo, since then I go out of my way to avoid buying anything complicated (cars, appliances, etc) that's made in Mexico.

    Is that wrong? Re-rebuilding that engine really wasn't fun.

    Sorry if I'm adding to the world's collective grief caused by prejudice and misunderstanding.

    Mar 16, 2008 5:11:31 PM

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    I was selling Porsche, Audi and VW in 1982 when we had a car come in complaining about noise in the door panels. When the mechanic opened the panel up there were wine bottles and somebodys left over lunch in the panel. Since all the labels were in German, we know it was factory installed. So much for German quailty.

    Mar 16, 2008 5:59:27 PM

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    I was selling Porsche, Audi and VW in 1982 when we had a car come in complaining about noise in the door panels. When the mechanic opened the panel up there were wine bottles and somebodys left over lunch in the panel. Since all the labels were in German, we know it was factory installed. So much for German quailty.



    Turkish workers.

    Mar 16, 2008 8:59:00 PM

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    I was selling Porsche, Audi and VW in 1982 when we had a car come in complaining about noise in the door panels. When the mechanic opened the panel up there were wine bottles and somebodys left over lunch in the panel. Since all the labels were in German, we know it was factory installed. So much for German quailty.



    Tell me about it. My 1995 Honda Civic had half eaten California rolls stuffed in the door panel. It didn't make any noise, but it sure smelled bad a few weeks after I took delivery of the car. Since California rolls are a popular item found only in restaurants in Japan, we're pretty sure this happened at the factory. So much for Japanese quality.
     
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