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Started by bluemoco, December 09, 2009, 02:00:39 PM

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bluemoco

December 09, 2009, 02:00:39 PM
Volkswagen is expected to buy 20% of Suzuki for $2.5 billion.   [coffee]

The Axis powers are reuniting!  If they make an offer for Ducati (or maybe MV Agusta?), VW will be on the path to total moto-industry domination.   ;D

http://www.motocrossactionmag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=538521FD478746C5BF20EBBDD6E5F42B
"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy." - Donnie Wahlberg in "The Departed"

"America is all about speed.  Hot, nasty, badass speed." --Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936

gregrnel

#1
December 09, 2009, 04:42:45 PM
Oh, please dear god noooooo, I've yet to meet a happy VW (1996 and up) owner, quality issues abound!
2003 620ie red, cored stock pipes, Hit -Air jacket, nice deriere.

DucatiTorrey

#2
December 09, 2009, 04:47:04 PM
isn't there a rumor they want ducati too?
  - real place

Duck-Stew

#3
December 09, 2009, 05:04:38 PM
Hayabusa powered Rabbits maybe?  Could be good!
Bike-less Portuguese immigrant enjoying life.

jerryz

#4
December 09, 2009, 05:31:33 PM
That means Suzuki qualiuty will go to trash...like VW ,,the 3rd worse QA and customer satisfaction of any manufacture VW used to be quality but not any longer they are a con.

1KDS

#5
December 09, 2009, 05:54:11 PM
Quote from: Duck-Stew on December 09, 2009, 05:04:38 PM
Hayabusa powered Rabbits maybe?  Could be good!

+1


Now I'll wait for the "satisfied" vee dub owners to chime in about how great they are.
Every bike I've ever owned.

ducatiz

#6
December 09, 2009, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: gregrnel on December 09, 2009, 04:42:45 PM
Oh, please dear god noooooo, I've yet to meet a happy VW (1996 and up) owner, quality issues abound!

I've got an '05 Golf TDI and I love it.  The last VW I had was about 15 years ago, a '71 Squareback.

Quote from: 1KDS on December 09, 2009, 05:54:11 PM
Now I'll wait for the "satisfied" vee dub owners to chime in about how great they are.

>Chime<

I love my '05 TDI..  I'd like a larger car, but the car runs wonderfully. 
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Grampa

#7
December 09, 2009, 06:55:56 PM
Disney is going to buy them all






with TARP money


8) [laugh]
Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar kicked me out of the band..... they said I didnt fit the image they were trying to project. 

So I went solo.  -Me

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Holden

#8
December 09, 2009, 07:36:32 PM
[bow_down] every VW/Audi I've ever driven.

Porsche Monkey

#9
December 10, 2009, 03:16:45 AM
 [popcorn]
Quote from: bobspapa on July 18, 2009, 04:40:31 PM
if I had a vagina...I'd never leave the house

ducatiz

#10
December 10, 2009, 05:17:25 AM
why is it that every time i hear someone hating on VWs nowadays, i look in their driveway and they own a Honda Civic with a rear foil and a fart can?
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

gregrnel

#11
December 10, 2009, 05:17:46 AM
I didn't say they were not great to drive. But owning (when you're paying the shop on a monthly basis) is a whole different story.......

Quote from: Holden on December 09, 2009, 07:36:32 PM
[bow_down] every VW/Audi I've ever driven.
2003 620ie red, cored stock pipes, Hit -Air jacket, nice deriere.

ducatiz

#12
December 10, 2009, 05:20:28 AM
Quote from: gregrnel on December 10, 2009, 05:17:46 AM
I didn't say they were not great to drive. But owning (when you're paying the shop on a monthly basis) is a whole different story.......

my current experience is limited to my 05 Golf TDI, and it's never been in the shop except for a recall on the seat heater.. they fixed it in an hour and that's that. 
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Howie

#13
December 10, 2009, 05:33:08 AM
I guess the five 96 or newer VWs we owned were unreliable in spite of our real life experience since the interwebs say so.

ducatiz

#14
December 10, 2009, 05:37:24 AM
QuoteThe Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2008, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 6.257 million (2007: 6.190 million), corresponding to a 10.3 percent share of the world passenger car market.

In Western Europe, the largest car market in the world, just over one in five new cars (20.3 percent) comes from the Volkswagen Group. Group sales rose in 2008 to 113.8 billion euros (2007: 108.9 billion). Profit after tax in the 2008 financial year amounted to 4.69 billion euros (2007: 4.12 billion).

The Group is made up of nine brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Scania, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

Audi..
Bentley..
Bugatti..
Lamborghini..
etc

Yah, they all turned to shit ... huh..
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.
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