From the Volkswagon Group website. Volkswagon owns Porsche and Audi and many others!

from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial VScania an.d MAN Vehicles,

For a good read, see how the 2 families who own controling interest of Volkswagon and Porsche

were able to transfer ownership of Posrche to Volkswagon and pay themselvesfor the sale  and yet retain ownership! , Wow, neat trick!

This is my third Mercedes. I would not drive anything else. 179.00 for an oil change? where do you live? Mine are 111.00 and that is once a year!

Drive whatever you want but I want the best and that to me is Mercedes.

ALL CARS ARE DESIGNED TO LAST FOR JUST SO LONG.. EVEN WITH REGULAR MAINTENANCE AND CARE, CRAP HAPPENS !!! ITS THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS FOR NOW. ULTIMATELY HERE'S MY VIEW FOR ALL. IT'S A REPOST OF MY EARLIER COMMENT:

FOR THE IGNORANT PEOPLE, OR THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION THAT WOULD READ THE FOLLOWING POSTS AND BELIEVE THAT THIS IS ALL THERE IS TO LIFE..WAKE THE HECK UP !!!!!!! WHAT THE HECK DOES THE CAR INDUSTRY HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?? CENTRAL BANKS AND GOVERNMENTS ARE INCREASING IN POWER BY CONFUSING AND DUMPING DOWN THE MASSES FOR FINANCIAL GAIN CAUSING THESE IGNORANT STATEMENTS. THOSE WHOM LISTEN TO THIS MINDLESS RHETORIC AND REMAIN ARGUING OVER POINTLESS POINTS OF; WHO KNOWS MORE? OR WHO IS SMARTER ?AND WHOSE CAR IS COOLER LASTS LONGER GETS BETTER MILEAGE? IT IS YOU WHO ARE ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILING NATION WE ARE IN AND YOU Those whos FAIL TO LISTEN AND ACT IN PROPER RESPONSE AS YOU ALL KNOW YOU SHOULD DEEP DOWN INSIDE. . INSTEAD YOU GIVE IN TO THE STATUS QUO AND BECOME COMPLACENT, ALLOWING THE ABSOLUTE POWERS THAT BE... TO CONTINUE TO CORRUPT ABSOLUTELY. DEMISE WILL FALL UPON US ALL, EVEN THEM WHO THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THE COMING DECONSTRUCTION OR DEATH ITSELF. HOWEVER YOU SEE IT WHETHER IT BE "THE CIRCLE OF LIFE" OR " LAWS OF NATURE" NOT TO MENTION THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HISTORY THAT DOCUMENT THE RISE AND FALL OF SEVERAL SOVEREIGN NATIONS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE "TOO BIG TO FALL".. THE TERM "TOO BIG TO FALL" IS THE DUMBEST COINED PHRASE OF OUR TIME.."ROME WAS TOO BIG TO FALL" WHERE IS THAT GREAT ROMAN EMPIRE TODAY? NOTHING IS TOO BIG TO FALL. HELL, WASN'T THE TITANIC UNSINKABLE? JUST A FEW ERRORS IN THE COMMAND STRUCTURE AND YOU HAVE CATASTROPHE... IT DOES NOT HAPPEN SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY FOREVER. THERE ARE THOSE LAST CRUCIAL MOMENTS BEFORE A DAM BREAKS. UNSEATING SLOWLY, BUT WHEN IT BREAKS- THE DAMAGE IS DONE WITHIN SECONDS AND THERE IS NO WAY TO SHORE IT UP AGAIN FOR QUITE SOMETIME IF EVER. HISTORICALLY, MOST MAJOR DAMS THAT HAVE RUPTURED HAVE NEVER BEEN REBUILT. JAPAN JUST HAD THE NUCLEAR MELTDOWN OF SEVERAL PLANTS THAT HAD X AMOUNT OF FAIL SAFES THAT WERE RELIED UPON ONLY TO WATCH EACH ONE FAIL ONE AFTER THE OTHER. IF YOU THINK THAT THE RADIATION LEVELS EMITTED FROM THOSE CATASTROPHES WERE SMALL COMPARED TO THE TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAT "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES" DROPPED ON THAT COUNTRY SO MANY YEARS AGO.. YOU'RE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING AND SO ARE YOUR FUTURE GENERATIONS. AND THOSE PEOPLE THAT WILL EXPERIENCE THE SAME IF NOT WORSE MALADIES THAT EFFECT THOSE EXPOSED. CUT THE HEAD OFF OF THE BEAST THAT IS LEADING US INTO HELL...GREED, LUST, POWER, GLUTTONY, HARLOTRY ETC. ETC.