VW Passat .... if you ever consider owning one ....

[Dale D]

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.