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.
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