Porsche is, after a titanic batttle, about to become a member of the VW Group. Last year Porsche tried to take over VW. VW struck back. This has been one of the great soap operas of industrial history.
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Driven: Porsche Panamera
at 9:46 am on Monday June 29, 2009
‘Jay, you look at the dials,’ I said to my passenger, ‘I’ve got other things to concentrate on.’ We were doing about 270km/h and rising fast.
Ferrari’s new F430
at 5:02 pm on Tuesday April 28, 2009
This autumn Ferrari will unveil the replacement for the 430 series. The new car is radically different too. New engine and transmission, new gearbox, all-new structure, new driver aids.
Spec yourself happy with a Porsche
at 8:20 am on Friday February 27, 2009
Porsche makes some great cars, but it’s quite possible to mess them up royally by speccing them wrong. And yet there’s really no excuse for it. Everyone in the UK who orders a new Porsche gets a most excellent chance to try out the important options for their car, flat on a piece of twisty […]
VolksPorscheWagen
at 11:52 am on Thursday October 30, 2008
My esteemed colleague Paul Horrell, a man who has a Cray super-computer where his brain should be, has already blogged about the fact that VW briefly became the world’s most valuable company this week.
Hedge funds: if they’re so smart, why this?
at 4:03 pm on Wednesday October 29, 2008
OK, is it just me or are those hedge funds that have been short-selling VW shares completely rubbish? Look what happened. They bet on VW going down. VW went up, because Porsche had bought a big stake. There weren’t enough shares left in circulation for them to settle their bets, so the price went sky-high.
SUVs in the poo
at 7:30 am on Sunday October 5, 2008
The Paris show floor is full of shiny new SUVs. But the conversation and the gossip is full of stories of the whole SUV thing driving deeply into the mire.
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