lol, sure, just after the Golf GTI TDI gets here...
Porsche takes over VW
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7813073.stm
Does this mean a Carerra TDI?
German luxury carmaker Porsche has announced that it has increased its stake in Volkswagen to more than 50%.
Porsche plans to lift its stake in VW to 75% later this year.
Even a 75% stake would not give it complete control as the VW law allows the state of Saxony, which holds 20%, to block strategic decisions.
VW has a dominant shareholding in Swedish truckmaker Scania, and under Swedish law Porsche is now obliged to make a takeover offer for Scania.
Porsche has said that it has no strategic interest in Scania and that it will offer the minimum price for the shares that is legally permitted.
Most valuable company
Porsche now holds 50.76% of the voting shares in VW, up from 42%.
It had hoped to raise its stake above 50% last year, but delayed it because of a dramatic rise in the share price.
VW shares rose from 210 euros to more than 1,000 euros per share in two trading sessions in October, which briefly made VW the most valuable company in the world.
The price spike was caused by hedge funds desperately needing to buy shares after it emerged that Porsche controlled much more shares in VW than had been thought.
The takeover will see Porsche, a family-owned manufacturer of about 100,000 luxury cars a year, own the world's third-largest carmaker, which makes five million vehicles a year.
Does this mean a Carerra TDI?
German luxury carmaker Porsche has announced that it has increased its stake in Volkswagen to more than 50%.
Porsche plans to lift its stake in VW to 75% later this year.
Even a 75% stake would not give it complete control as the VW law allows the state of Saxony, which holds 20%, to block strategic decisions.
VW has a dominant shareholding in Swedish truckmaker Scania, and under Swedish law Porsche is now obliged to make a takeover offer for Scania.
Porsche has said that it has no strategic interest in Scania and that it will offer the minimum price for the shares that is legally permitted.
Most valuable company
Porsche now holds 50.76% of the voting shares in VW, up from 42%.
It had hoped to raise its stake above 50% last year, but delayed it because of a dramatic rise in the share price.
VW shares rose from 210 euros to more than 1,000 euros per share in two trading sessions in October, which briefly made VW the most valuable company in the world.
The price spike was caused by hedge funds desperately needing to buy shares after it emerged that Porsche controlled much more shares in VW than had been thought.
The takeover will see Porsche, a family-owned manufacturer of about 100,000 luxury cars a year, own the world's third-largest carmaker, which makes five million vehicles a year.
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Not going to change the company here in any case. You might see some parts mingling like the Touareg-Cayenne but how can you mix a sports car platform like the 911 with a Jetta? A rear engined Beetle?
Definition of automakers: finance companies that make cars on the side.
FYI, that's GM's problem. Many of their profits were coming from GMAC. That's also what let them grow in the early days of GM. And now GMAC is owned 51% by Cerberus, the guys who own Chrysler.
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