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Press Release:

With the recent cutbacks in BMW, a company owned by the government for some time, Lord Tian is working to cover any losses.

He has overseen the total buyout of Volkswagen and now has 55% of Porsche's open stock, making him the tiebreaker in any decision in the company and placing him on the board of directors.

His first order involving Volkswagen is the renaming of the Beetle.

All new models will now be the Volkswagen Adolf, honoring one of the few good things to come from the mind of Adolf Hitler. While he did not actually design the car, he was the one that laid down the requirements for the car, which guided the design effort greatly. Hitler at this time had a vision of his countrymen being able to own a cheap car and had plans on creating great networks of roads called autobahns. Hitler invited Porsche to submit to him a design for this peoples car, it had to be cheap, economical, fast (all of 60 miles per hour) and to accommodate two adults and three children comfortably. Within five years, the Beetle was put into production, although it was ceased at the start of WWII, when the Allies bombed the factory.

After the war however, production was started again and the first car affordable to the common man of Germany was a reality and rolld out onto the autobahns. At least one of Hitlers dreams for his nation came true and provided a better life for the people.(OOC: All that is true. I have researched it.)

Crimmond Motor Works
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BMW Eurasia

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Volkswagen Motor Company

Controlling stocks:

39% DaimlerChrysler(excluding Mercedes-Benz Division)
55% Porsche

excluding Mercedes-Benz Division

Which had a merger with Monarch Automobiles

OOC: Exactly why it was excluded, as Lord Tian would not have allowed such a merger to happen(he doesn't want to lose profits), therefore he must not have had any say over that division.

excluding Mercedes-Benz Division

Which had a merger with Monarch Automobiles

But only the Eurasian BMW division, if the merger did occur. The Sliponian Motor Company is trying to buy BMW North America and Australia.

[ooc: do we have the makings of two nations both claiming BMW w/o takling to each other?]

(OOC: I'm wondering how you bought out VW, since in the past they have publically claimed that foreign attempts to buy them out would result in them selling both their Audi and SEAT marques to prevent the entire group from becoming foreign owned? Of course, I know its role play and anything is possible. Just wondering. :) )

--Khen the VW Nut

OOC: BMW and Mercedes are NOT the same company.

Mercedes is own in RL by DaimlerChrysler. Volkswagen is owned by Porsche and BMW is seperate from them all and is not owned by any other company.

Steel's company bought out Mercedes-Benz, the DaimlerChrysler company. It had nothing to do with BMW.

OOC: BMW and Mercedes are NOT the same company.

Mercedes is own in RL by DaimlerChrysler. Volkswagen is owned by Porsche and BMW is seperate from them all and is not owned by any other company.

Steel's company bought out Mercedes-Benz, the DaimlerChrysler company. It had nothing to do with BMW.

VW Is NOT owned by Porsche. VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, and Bentley are all owned by VW. Porsche is its own, seperate company. They have ties going back to before WWII, but they are seperate companies.

(OOC: I'm wondering how you bought out VW, since in the past they have publically claimed that foreign attempts to buy them out would result in them selling both their Audi and SEAT marques to prevent the entire group from becoming foreign owned? Of course, I know its role play and anything is possible. Just wondering. :) )

--Khen the VW NutOOC: Because on NS, they never said that. :P Anyway, I only bought out VW. I didn't touch Audi or any of the other corporations, only aquiring a large amount of Porsche stock.

VW Is NOT owned by Porsche. VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, and Bentley are all owned by VW. Porsche is its own, seperate company. They have ties going back to before WWII, but they are seperate companies.VW is part of the Porsche Group, controlled by Porsche.

I admit, I was wrong on one thing, Porshe does NOT own VW. VW owns Porsche.

Volkswagen owned companies:

Volkswagen
Audi
Porsche
Bentley
Lamborghini

So... now to decide that if I have bought out VW, do I now control the subsidiaries... :twisted:

VW is part of the Porsche Group, controlled by Porsche.

Please tell me where you got this information, as your source is horribly wrong.

The Volkswagen Group consists of the following Marques:

Volkswagen
Audi
SEAT
Skoda
Lamborghini
Bentley

Porsche is its own company. It does not own any other marques, and it is not owned by any other marques. VW and Porsche have had a close relationship engineering wise, both contributed to the Touareg/Cheyenne SUV, and in the past VW/Porsche had engine-sharing agreements, but they have been and always will be seperate companies.

So if you bought VW, I'm sorry, you did not buy Porsche. If you did buy the entire VW group, then those other marques are included, though VW has been vocal about any attempts at buying them out. To combat any buyout threats they have counter-threatened sales of their other marques, hence making any competitor looking to buy them all think twice. If you look on any VW Part, you will see four symbols. The VW Symbol, the Audi Symbol, the SEAT symbol, and the Skoda symbol. VW and Porsche are mutally exclusive.

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OOC: Grrr... I hate it when people confuse me with facts. :lol:

I was looking at a parts site when I saw the Porshe/VW thing.

*sigh* Well, anyway... I bought out VW. I bought Porsche stock. Consider them seperate, I guess.

Whether VW would sell out the subsidiaries? Hmmm... I'll have to think about which to keep and which to cast off. Bentley is staying, I'm sure of that.