Comments on: Porsche CEO discusses coming years, VW rumors

By: norby413

norby413 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:56:18 +0000

Veda,
more like VW’s are downgraded Audis. Not sure if you were complimenting or criticizing Audi, but in the car industry, Audi’s interiors are considered the target for everyone else. NOBODY does it better.

By: Veda

Veda — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:03:45 +0000

Everything from the plastic in an Audi feels like VW. They’re basically upgraded VW’s. It’s impossible to separate them both. In regard to Porsche taking over those brands, I think it could be a good thing as they’ll probably increase the reliability of those brands.

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:24:58 +0000

good thing they realized that audi should not be separated from VW

By: megator

megator — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:05:16 +0000

so stuart ur in the UK? im in the Uk as well i have only been living here since the end of september i started uni u see. I still havent seen any dodges though. I must say seats are really popular in spain and they in holland they are realtivly popular. but ever since the new leon and all thoose redicioulusly designed cars they have been on a major land slide.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:13:23 +0000

Seat is not exactly the biggest success thats why Volkswagen is looking to sell. In the UK you never see a Seat, Maybe once in every 200 cars about the same as a Dodge.

Plus at point Volkswagen was willing to supply Dodge with platforms for the Hornet but apparently Dodge was not willing to pay the amount as they thought it was too expensive. Volkwagen wouldn’t mind Dodge using their platforms as it is probably the only way to get rid of Seat otherwise who would buy it?

By: megator

megator — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:33:04 +0000

stuart all seats are based on volkswagen products, if vw sold seat to dodge then they would basicly be giving them copies of their most recent vehicles. Also the name seat has much more standing in europe than dodge, so it would be better to keep them as seats. Dodge was recently reintroduced to holland officaly with the caliber and it has been a huge flop. they had masive advertising campaines and i have yet to see one on the road. seat is pretty sucseful because they sell cheaper sporty versions of volkswagen products. if they fell into the hands of dodge they would just flop.

By: Scott Kempton

Scott Kempton — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:39:53 +0000

Stuart—you may have something there.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:09:16 +0000

If the rumours of selling Seat are true then why not just sell the company to dodge and rebadge them (the way Chevrolet done with Daewoo) as Dodge for Europe and Seat for Spain Only. This would also allow Dodge to offer a small car in the A,B segment in America.

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:44:32 +0000

Right now Porsche has too much to think about other than obtaining VW. The 2008 Model face lift of the Cayenne, The All-new 2009 model year Cayenne, the GT2, the Panamera, the successor to the Carrera GT(GT1?), Porsche RS Spyder, and theres a big rumour of them getting back to F1 racing which would be really awesome. Alot of good things to come for such a wonderful company. Im looking foward to the next couple years with Porsche.