Which one of these is not owned by VW?

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Which one of these is not owned by VW?

26 votes · Voting is open

Audi 0 votes · 0%
Seat 0 votes · 0%
Bently 5 votes · 19%
Bugatti 2 votes · 8%
Skoda 0 votes · 0%
Lamborghini 5 votes · 19%
None they all are 14 votes · 54%

Ghia Commited Dubber

68 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 22 Dec 2002, 7:46 pm

#16620

jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Dec 2002, 9:03 pm

#16637

I had to post this while I'm thinking and possibly doing a little research

New beetle convertible :cool

http://www.volkswagen.de/home/index_.htm

Found the answer and not telling:party

[Edited on 22-12-2002 by jenz58]

London Bugger Seriously Crusin Dubber

164 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 12:38 am

#16667

At first I ThoughtVW owned them all.

But then my instinct said they dont own Bugatti? Am i a fooool?

Rob.

Ghia Commited Dubber

68 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 1:31 am

#16672

Yep they do own them all and some more specialist firms.

Some of the recent extreme VW models are little more than test beds for Bently and Bugatti. (Passat W12 and Phaeton.)

London Bugger Seriously Crusin Dubber

164 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 6:02 am

#16679

Ghia wrote:Yep they do own them all and some more specialist firms.

Some of the recent extreme VW models are little more than test beds for Bently and Bugatti. (Passat W12 and Phaeton.)

Hmmmmmmmm nothing compares to the Bugatti Veryon or what ever its called! V12 Twin turbo yumm yumm!!

Rob.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 10:57 am

#16701

I didn't know that they owned Lamborg..... I can't spell it, but I can spell BENTLEY not Bently....

😀:rudolf

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 10:52 pm

#16859

Yes VW do own them all. The question is, why??

SEAT makes a lot of money for VW in Spain, and Skoda are also selling very well. But how much money can VW make from three dead, or almost dead, luxury brands??

No new Bugattis have been sold for decades. Several previous owners have tried to resurrect the great French marque from the 1930s, but each has ended in failure. VW picked up the marque relatively cheaply but it will take mega $$$ to start the brand from scratch.

Now Bentley might be doing better but VW really wanted Rolls Royce and missed out. Now they have a marque that has been nothing but tarted up Rolls Royces for 50 years - real Bentleys haven't been made since the 1930s. Once again, VW must start pretty much from scratch.

Same with Lamborghini. At least they made handfuls of great cars in the 1960s, '70s and '80s before going bankrupt several times under different owners (VW bought them from a Singapore-based consortium who had gone broke trying to run the company). The Diablo is now out of date compared with the latest Porsches and Ferraris, so VW has to start again.

I always thought VW should have bought Subaru instead of poncing around with these luxury wanker brands. At least the Subaru engine is a distant relative of our familiar favourite.

What other dead luxury brands could VW buy and try to resuscitate? Auburn? Duesenberg? Horch? Wanderer? Wolesley? Cord? Packard? Tucker? They make about the same amount of sense.

Meanwhile, the Golf and Polo fall further behind their competitors.

Ghia Commited Dubber

68 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 24 Dec 2002, 9:44 pm

#17006

68AutoBug wrote:I didn't know that they owned Lamborg..... I can't spell it, but I can spell BENTLEY not Bently....

😀:rudolf

That's funny 'casue if you look at my posts on the Rolls Royce poll I spelt it with an E... but so many others were spelling it without an E and I have no confidence in my spelling that I decided I must be wrong 😀

Ghia Commited Dubber

68 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 24 Dec 2002, 9:46 pm

#17007

Phil74Camper: I think you are spot on and a lot of people agree.

Funny thing in the Uk they can't sell many Seats or any Skodas.