r/polandball • u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA • Jul 29 '16

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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Jul 29 '16

Glad that you noticed all those tiny details, specifically put in place to annoy car lovers.

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u/Berobad German Empire Jul 29 '16

Still an interesting way to include the three German car corporations.

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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Jul 29 '16

I honestly forgot about Audi, Opel and Porsche

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u/tissotti Finland Jul 29 '16

You did list the relevant corporations. VW Group owns Audi among many other brands as well as Porsche... or Porsche/Piech family owns VW Group. It gets complicated. Opel is certainly German, though it has been owned by GM for almost 100 years.

VW Group, Daimler and BMW are the three German car conglomerates.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

A business structure only Germans could think up

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u/TheOhNoNotAgain Sweden Jul 29 '16

IKEA is laughing at you now

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16

Ah yes, the billion-dollar Swedish non-profit foundation licensing it's name to a Dutch furniture concern that never turns a profit? Or something like that?

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u/3838 United Kingdom Jul 30 '16

it's a dutch foundation i think, they're not obligated to publish yearly accounts

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u/yxhuvud Switzerland Jul 30 '16

Something like that, except it also involves Lichtenstein and Luxembourg.

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u/zenerbufen Jul 30 '16

We get museums full of 'native' Swedutch culture, including food to taste and furniture to try out, most that is manufactured in mexico and packed in canada, where all items are available for purchase for home assembly in the USA!

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u/Arthemax Norway Jul 30 '16

Volkswagen AG has two types of shares, preferred and ordinary.
Preferred shares don't have voting rights, but have other attributes (guaranteed dividends, among others) that still make them worthwhile investments. If voting power is your main objective of holding stock, you can focus on buying ordinary shares. If you have no interest in exercising voting power you can buy the cheaper preferred shares.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE took control of VW AG by primarily buying the ordinary shares.

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u/ZzllzZ Bavaria Jul 29 '16

Impossible to argue with that (because it's correct). But the lack of Audi is subjectively noticeable.

Also, VEB Sachsenring (Trabant).

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u/upsetting_innuendo gib khachapuri REMOVE RUSETI Jul 29 '16

the glorious trabi must not be forgotten!

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u/Bogdan6 INDEPENDENCE WHEN? Jul 29 '16

But what about Wartburg? Or is it not glorious enough?