ragav20693 0 Report post Posted July 8, 2011 Source: www.thetruthaboutcars.com Author: Bertel Schmitt Things are not going well between Volkswagen and Suzuki. In 2009, Volkswagen invested $2.5 billion for a 19.9 percent share in Suzuki. Suzuki sent $1.13 billion back and bought 2.5 percent of Volkswagen. Suzuki netted $1.37 billion, domo arigatou gozaimasu, but then nothing happened. End of last year, Ferdinand Piech became impatient. Volkswagen stockholders asked discomforting questions at the annual meeting. Now, it turned into a war of the words. Volkswagen uses old media. The octogenarian Osamu Suzuki drops a massive blog bomb on Wolfsburg. A month ago, Volkswagen leaked to Der Spiegel that the German-Nipponese axis is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
creativebala 178 Report post Posted July 8, 2011 Let VW- Suzuki relation breaks and Fiat jumps in, a new Suzuki-Fiat family will be born with Suzuki's petrol engine and AfSS and Fiat's diesel engine, build, handling, ride,..etc. The outcome could be, Punto 1.4 K-Series & Linea 1.6 K-Series along with many other cars getting serviced at MASS. What a marriage it will be! Let me keep dreaming. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GOLF 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2011 What Osmau Suzuki said is correct about VW.Suzuki is a low cost mass market brand compared to VW and technology which VW has is both expensive and questionable value in low cost mass market.Features like DSG gearboxes , projector lamps are useless in price sensitive low cost mass markets like ours. Suzuki like Ferrari if in any dire problem will always approach a Japanese company like Toyota similar to Enzo Ferrari who though hated Angelli family of Fiat sold his company to Fiat than Ford. VW builds good cars but has neglected Lamborghini and literally eroded the exoticness of this brand by launching unnecessary products like Audi R8 , Bugatti Veyron .these cars should have been branded as lambo.Lamborghini product pails in comparison to Ferrari and every product is in production for atleast a decade.Even Gallordo replacement is nowhere in sight after nearly 8 years in production. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites