mikel  <mikel@evins.net> wrote:
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| Edi Weitz wrote:
| > Porsche is generally considered to be the most profitable car maker
| > worldwide in the last years (but it's true that they almost went
| > bankrupt in the 80s).
| 
| Nevertheless, they make a good example. They are a small manufacturer 
| whose fortunes are always bet on a small, relatively narrow product line.
+---------------

Hunh? I thought that Porsche/Audi/Volkswagon was all the same company
underneath the brand names. E.g., you could always drop Porsche engines
directly into a VW Beetle chassis; my VW Dasher squareback was *identical*
to an Audi Fox squareback [even had the Audi Fox logo on the steering
wheel]; etc.  Not so?


-Rob

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