interesting advice. i drive a 92 2 door jetta, it's been great for the 10 months or so i've had it. i have no doubt that vw quality is dropping though, they're owned by ford now, after all.

did you know that a new muffler for a mclaren f1 is $15,000 US?

Owned by Ford????????

Where did you hear that one from.

VAG owns VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda,Lamborgini, Bugatti and Bentlley(?)couple of others too I think. Fourth largest auto manufacturer in the world.

Never heard of them being owned by Ford though. :?

I'll have to post this on some of the VW boards I go to and see what they have to say.

Dale D

I think ford does own controling stock in the parent company but they alow them to operate independent.. not sure but I know Ford have controling stock in Lamborgini, which would make sence that they own the parent company and this is how they have there intrest in Lamborgini.

the big 3 have been running around the world buying up large chunks of every company.. I would be surprised if there are many left that aren't majority owned by one of them.

as for Skota, are they still around? I was given one and I couldent find parts anywhare in NA and when I e-mailed the Skota in the chek republic they gave me the impression they are no longer in the car market... :roll: so I gave the car away

Steve

I second Dale's comments... As far as I know (and I'm both a Ford and VW fan) Ford has no ownership in VW.

And you forgot to mention Porsche is also under VAG's umbrella! 8)

Skoda's still around. They even have a WRC team. Their cars (Octavia etc) are pretty much just rebadged VW's I think. They've come along way from the rolling pieces of crap they produced in the 70's and 80's.

In the last 20 years I think just about everyone has owned Lamborgini at one time or another. Now VW does.

Ford owns Aston Martin, Jaguar, a large piece of Mazda and bunch of others. I think at one time in the 90's they took a look at VW, but, it never went any farther.

I don't think there is any official connection between VW and Porsche besides the family connection with Dr. Porsche. This comes up on VW boards alot and they are thought to be 2 seperate manufacturers.

Porsche as well as Lotus have aways done alot of design work for other auto manufacturers.

Hi,

Ford doesn't own significant stock of either VW or Lamborghini. In fact, Lamborghini is under Audi and VW owns 99% of Audi.

Ford has a market cap of 18 Billion, while VW has a market cap of 17 billion. If Ford had any involvement with VW....it would be a big merger. Porsche has a market cap of 9 billion.

Ford also owns Volvo and Land Rover. Ford owns 33% of Mazda stock.

Porsche AG is independent, but they do a lot of design work for other companies. In particular, they had a previous relationship with VW and Mercedes AMG.

Hope that helps.

- Victor.