11-16-2017, 02:26 PM
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The ones I didn't know: - 3 —Ford turned down the whole thing, for free
- 4 —2008 Porsche tries to take over VW, bumps their stock, and in 2009 VW did a reverse takeover
- 5 —1955 23-window, w/ 6K miles, auctions for $235,000 in Germany in 2014 (Nice interior!)
- 9 —Volkswagen own Scania and MAN
- 10 —Under a war-time economy VW employed 15,000 slave laborers.
- 11 —in 1973 VW was fined by the EPA for emissions defeat devices (sound familiar?)
- 12 —For one day in 2008 VW was worth more than Apple and Exxon and everyone else in the world (US$343 billion)
- 13 —2002 Nardo Concept World record 9809 miles at 200mph.
- 14 —Chris Pratt restored his own 1965 Beetle.
- 15 — In Australia in April 2000, 25 people set a Guinness World Record for the least air inside a VW Beetle.
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