Comments on: VW overtakes Toyota as world’s largest automaker

By: oldraven

oldraven — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:13:45 +0000

Nicely Done!

By: Need more oil for the VW Group

Need more oil for the VW Group — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:49:01 +0000

Excellent, VW overtakes General Craptors and Crapota to assume its rightful place at the top.
VW. A European Invasion.

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:48:09 +0000

Hey Dr Filled with crap, looks like Toyota buyers and salesidiots like yourself are waking up to realize that GM vehicles are FAR superior to your POS Toyodas!!!

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f72/sold-equinox-twist-85224/

Read it and weep jackasss!!!!

Don’t get hit by a runaway Toyota on your way to the janitors office!

GM. An American Revolution

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:01:18 +0000

ahhh, the AUTOBAHN, mans greatest invention…also the scariest when you go on for the first time

By: DrFill

DrFill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:52:48 +0000

ALS
Turn off the fryer!
THE FRIES ARE BURNING!
DrFill

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:08:45 +0000

And don’t forget the AUTOBAHN…

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:00:01 +0000

@…. idrinorbarsaku

The haters will always hate, I for one have own a lot of cars, and like I said,

CRAFTSMANSHIP,… QUALITY,… RELIABILITY,…

The GERMANS do it best, just think…

BUGATTI, BENTLEY, LAMBORGHINI, PORSCHE, AUDI, all part of the Volks Wagon family…

ROLLS ROYCE, BMW, MINI COPPER… GERMAN…

MERCEDES BENZ… GERMAN…

And besides, the German’s invented the automobile….

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:51 +0000

The opinions of fags who have never owned them are as useful as the opinions of a crying, 12 year old, b!tch!

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:45 +0000

WHAT THE FUNK??????????????

TOYOTA NO LONGER THE “NUMBER-ONE” AUTO MAKER IN THE WORLD????

HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN, AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE…

ANY ONE CAN WIN ONE CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT A TRUE WORLD CHAMPION…

WILL ALWAYS FIND IT’s WAY BACK TO THE TOP….

CONGRATS TO THE GERMANS…

CRAFTSMANSHIP,… QUALITY,… RELIABILITY,…

AND THAT VW BUG THAT WE SEE ON T.V.

CONGRATS,… FROM THE BIGGEST AMERICAN CAR NUT…

By: JKT6

JKT6 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11:22 +0000

I agree with Yaroukh. Here in Europe VW has a perfect quality. But they are also a bit more expensive.

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:32:53 +0000

Hey LS7 you c0ckbag, did I use the word exciting? NO. I used the word fun. Which they are, like the GTI and GLI, and with high mileage TDI’s that are infinitely more fun to drive than a hybrid. SUCK IT BIATCH

By: MaytagRepairman

MaytagRepairman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:22 +0000

Checking calendar…….. Nope it isn’t April 1.

By: jetbear

jetbear — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:47 +0000

LS7 – Your comments are contradictory and asinine at best.

The Porsche 912 had a VW Air-Cooled motor. The Porsche Cayenne’s frame and doors are sourced from VW. The Panamera’s body is built at the Volkswagen facility in Hannover. Porsche also owns a large portion of VW (at least 30%).

VW not exciting? Pray tell, tell me who owns Bugatti? Who built the engine that powers the Veyron? (W16 > LS7, and that’s not debatable.)

By: NO more oil for GM is retarded

NO more oil for GM is retarded — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:18:17 +0000

Yea, good ole vw electronics. Leave you on the side of the road as you call the aaa. VW couldn’t design a good looking car if they tried. The rabbit, oh wait golf. Wait a minute lets call it rabbit. lol
Garbage cars that are always being towed by tow trucks back to their oh so superior dealership. Heil VW.

By: nickkop

nickkop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:02:17 +0000

oh and by the way… congrats to VW and group… you guys are obviously doing something right… you just might need to do a little more of that something here in the USA

By: alsvw

alsvw — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:57:16 +0000

drfilled with crap- why do you think you are part of toyota? the toyota dealer probably fired you a long time ago. and this was when you were just allowed to change the oil in the low end camry, and corolla’s.

By: nickkop

nickkop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:54:37 +0000

if i were to buy a product of company owned within the USA :

Go FORD !!

By: nickkop

nickkop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:52:40 +0000

my favorite mass-volume auto producers, somewhat in order of preference:

BMW
Honda/Acura
VW (Group)
Nissan/Infiniti
Toyota/Lexus
FORD / Volvo
GM: I personally only like Corvette Z06 / Pontiac G8 – Holden Commodore/ Cadillac CTS-V / Saab 93AeroXWD
Mercedes-Benz/Chrysler/Hyundai…. etc etc etc..

By: nickkop

nickkop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:40:51 +0000

btw.. who cares how many units GM produces when nobody outside of Michigan wants to buy them !?!?

By: nickkop

nickkop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:31 +0000

hey ford man… you should look at ford’s stock… closed at 8.18 per share last night…. where is GM’s $0.58 … nice…… or try again…. FAIL

By: DrFill

DrFill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:34:25 +0000

ALS
When we want failure, we pray at your temple
DrFill

By: vwoom

vwoom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:34:19 +0000

“Well ahead of VW’s initial projection of becoming the world’s largest automaker by 2018…”

Talk about a VW Blitzkrieg!!!

By: fordman

fordman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:43:45 +0000

Hey everybody,Ford SUCKS! Hate to rain on your parade,but the dueshbag that wrote that article has the numbers wrong.GM is on top with 4.7 million sales. The day will never come when shitfaced Ford will outsell GM!

By: Yaroukh

Yaroukh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:04:14 +0000

(BTW I’m from the same country as Skoda.)

By: Yaroukh

Yaroukh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:55 +0000

@Borat and Hazdaz: VW has terrible quality in US, not here in Europe. And there are no signs of VAG losing their quality level while posting the rizing numbers in production.

By: LS7

LS7 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:40:00 +0000

LOL @ A4 for thinking VW cars are exciting.

Porsche = Exciting
VW = Garbage, borring, pathetic, unreliable, over-priced, and adored by gay-men world wide.

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:09:15 +0000

Yep but when they have a warranty they’re more fun, luxurious, and teutonically solid than their competition. And aren’t ugly as sin like toyota’s. And dont have zip-ties holding down the floor mats. I’ll buy VWAG as long as they produce the types of cars they do. Not everyone gives a sh!t about whether or not the pixels will burn out in their dashboard. They’d rather enjoy the car for what it has to offer.

By: NO more oil for GM is retarded

NO more oil for GM is retarded — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:15:59 +0000

vw=crap. They are just as bad as gm. Their electrics fail and good luck once the warranty ends.
POS cars.

By: alsvw

alsvw — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:53:28 +0000

Dr.Philled with crap is not going to come out of his moms basement for a very long time. Maybe we could all donate some money to send some food to his house. Or we could always contact meals-on-wheels. But, I was thinking the driver probably drives a diesel vw, and dr.phil may not except the kind donation from a anti-toyota driver.

By: alsvw

alsvw — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:25:47 +0000

Suck this toyota, and your hold them together with a zip tie cars, and don’t forget the rust bucket trucks.
Atleast VW makes fun to drive cars. Even the basement model VW Golf with a 5spd is more fun to drive then any toyota made today. Exlcluding the lexus line of buick/tooyota vehicles. Toyota was on top for making boring, slow, granny cars. I would like to know how much toyota is paying for keeping there death traps out of the media. Toyota will be 3rd or 4th within 5 years after these Audi 5000 like issues transpire.

By: save saab

save saab — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:17:04 +0000

I saw this coming, this is a car company I want to be #1. I never hated VW and I have to say congrats to them. Hmm…. I smell something fishy, VW is coming out with the NCS and NMS which will be Americanized, but those will be the bread-and-butter cars that Corolla and Camry buyers’ want. We’ll still have the Golf/ GTi/GTi-R, Touareg, Tiguan, production bluesport concept, Polo, Phaeton, and the CC, so right now, the future of VW looks perfect.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:44:19 +0000

A4, give him a break. At least he came up from the dry heaves long enough to post.

By: EMINEM

EMINEM — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:39:00 +0000

sweet….

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:22:29 +0000

Nice try spinning that one Dr Fill… or should I say Dr Fail.
Dumbass.

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:21:21 +0000

POW!

By: atoms

atoms — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:20:16 +0000

maybe they ran out of canadian tire money to buy zip ties

By: DenverGuy217

DenverGuy217 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:44:31 +0000

Toyota and GM can blame it on the closing of NUMMI :>)

By: andy

andy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:26:29 +0000

GM was king for what, 70 some odd years? Toyota for 1 year, 1/70th the time, this sets VW up for a good 5 day run

By: Smegley Wanxalot

Smegley Wanxalot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:23:33 +0000

LWA has it right – it’s a harbinger of a corporate downfall. That being said, Toyota being toppled in just one year is awesome.

By: Hazdaz

Hazdaz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:23:44 +0000

@ YAROUKH:
VW has had horrible quality recently. Maybe it has improved dramatically over the last year or two, but go back any farther than that, and as appealing as some VW/Audi models might look, I wouldn’t even think about buying one.

Also VW has earned a reputation for ridiculous prices too. Again, maybe things have changes dramatically over the past year or two, but to get a comparable Passat to some of it’s fellow mid-size competitors, you would be paying quite a big premium. Sure, some of that extra cost would be semi justified by having a really nice ride and “sporty” European handling, but that only goes so far.

I know that VW is making a big push into the US market and they plan on building more cars here in the US, which should help them be more competitive in price, but they also better improve their quality, or else this #1 spot might be very short-lived. Toyota cars might be a heck of a lot more boring and bland, but for the average consumer that just wants to go from Point A to Point B, they will usually pick safe-but-boring over exciting-but-unreliable.

By: DrFill

DrFill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:16:50 +0000

Pending third-party verification (something a lot more concrete than a random “German report”)
I’d like to congratulate VW
Considering their relative weakness here in the 2nd largest car market
This needs much more thorough investigation

If anything, it looks like VW is fading in the US market
DrFill

By: Borat

Borat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:06:46 +0000

@Yaroukh, but if you read any quality reports on VW (especially in US) you will see huge gap in quality between self destructing Toyota and VW. Based on this article, it is Skoda that drives sales gain for VW group. The company who’s products we can’t sample. Actually, it is Skoda that is the most quality oriented producer, not Audi or VW. It is also the less expensive brand.

By: Yaroukh

Yaroukh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:47:23 +0000

@Hazdaz: Just try to imagine for a moment that Toyota is not the only automaker who can manage to have decent quality, profits and production numbers at the same time.

By: Hazdaz

Hazdaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:34:27 +0000

Good for VW, but being PROFITABLE is more important than total market share.

Who gives a crap if you are #1 but losing money?
Toyota might be in the red for a couple of quarters, but they will definitely be back in the black when the economy picks up. They might not make the most exciting cars on the road, but they are still tops (or near the top) in terms of quality and reliability while asking a fair price. If VW is sacrificing profits or quality now to get more quick sales then they will be paying for it in the long-term.

By: CiNO

CiNO — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:29:46 +0000

No one gonna stay top forever. Maybe GM, Ford, Hyundai or whatever will be number one next year. Who knows? The one which fall down from top and find the way back to top is called a company with passion.