VW Briefly Surpasses Exxon as World's Biggest Company

remember th einternet boom? VW stocks shot up faster than their cars sales could blink because of these sort of games but rather than the internet company, VW actually makes money

LOL Are you realy so dumb to blieve the actual worth of VW has ANYTHING to do with its sucsess??? What is to blame for that is called short call option...

yeah, a company that is well over 100 billion worth

Porsche is the most succesful auto maker out there...

yes... most successful automaker... judging by your name your opinion isn't biased at all... I would have thought Toyota was more successful, after all they are selling the most units.

success is based on profit, not how many cars you sell. toyota makes very little profit if any per unit.

SPOT ON!! There is your answer Joe_Limon. However, if Porsche tanks between now and then, which is probably very unlikely, they will not be able to use their credit to purchase the majority of VW.

Porsche annually makes only about 100,000 cars a year. It would take centuries to pay off that purchase. Yes after owning vw they would have a lot more profit, but to give a credit line that many times larger then the company is mind bogglingly stupid.

If you knew anything about Porsche you would know that they branch out into so many different areas of industry with investments and capital all over the world, hell they had 1.9 billion $ a few years ago to buy their university the 9th most powerful computer in the world. They own multiple patents that make them a crap load of loot too. Also a lot of it is owned by the province which makes a lot of other goods, members of the board are some of the wealthiest families in perhaps the wealthiest country in europe. Don't underestimate Porsche, in these economic times a loan for a sum that big would be impossible to get on such short notice, it's hard cash. Just face it you're just jelous that little Porsche with its 100,000 cars/year can buy Ford/GM/Chrysler 2x over in a single transaction.

Oh also if you compare their Net Profit margin on google finance you will see that they are at 57% in 2007, in comparison to GM which was -23.97%. They are by far one of the most profitable companies in the world based on ROI from the day they started till today. It is honestly a rock solid company.

sorry I am not jealous of Porsche, I know they average about $28000 of profit for every vehicle they sell, I don't know about you, but that seems like a rip off and even more reason not to buy a car with dated looks for way more then what it costs to make.

You find me a single porsche owner who thinks they got ripped off and i'll give u 5$. They are dated because really there is nothing wrong with the way they looked, hell id kill for a 1952 356. The thing is prosche had it right from the start, their formula for automotive success is perfect, design was simple, engine was simple, everything about the car was simple, and it worked as intended. Now 60 years later they have perfected that simplicity to provide the owner with something exclusive. A porsche is a porsche, sure a ferrari is faster and looks better, but it doesn't have the personality and clean cut perfection of a 911 or Carrera GT. And as i've said before, the dated looks are what makes me want one.

In fact the strongest/most valueable german car-producing brand is Mercedes. Its one of the top ten brands in the world.

Last year porsche won the most powerful and widely recognized Brand in the world. I think Coke had the title for the last 10 years if not more.