Interesting.. Certainly wasn't my impression! I've not really followed the history of Porsche and VW very closely.
What is the source of this information? G On Aug 8, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > It's actually the other way around. Porsche took an 18.5% ownership > interest in VW in 2005 to prevent a takeover bid (increased now to > approximately 25%). Porsche was owned by Ferdinand Porsche and > later his > heirs until 1972, when it became a private limited company > controlled by > the Porsche and Piech families. VW owns Audi and Skoda, but not > Porsche. > VW and Porsche have always been close and VW's chairman and CEO from > 1993 to 2002 was Ferdinand Piech, one of the major Porsche > shareholders > and Ferdinand Porsche's grandson. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
