VW, Porsche to merge

[john at westcoastgarage.net]

> Hmmmm.... History repeating itself?
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090506-715329.html
>>
>> Yow...maybe Porsche shouldn't have rushed to spend that shiny coin it
>> earned from Cayenne sales :)
>>
>> Cue the Clarkson jokes about the 911 not just "looking like a squashed
>> Volkswagen beetle with a wing on the back", but actually made out of
>> one too...
>>
>> Brett

> Danton J.A. Cardoso
>
>
And what "history" would that be?  VW and Porsche, as companies, have
NEVER been intertwined, other than a limited joint marketing venture in
the '70s.  It's a FACT.  True, they share some familial association
through members of their respective boards, but so do a LOT of
corporations. John