Volkswagen and Porsche: How do they match up?

Here are the vital statistics of the two carmakers:
• VW posted annual sales of almost 114 billion euros, more than 16 times Porsche's approximately 7 billion euros.*
• VW sold 6.27 million cars last year, more than 70 times the 87,000 cars delivered by Porsche.*
• VW has 370,000 staff globally vs 12,800 for Porsche
• VW's market value -- bloated by speculation that Porsche will buy more of its stock -- stands at more than 70 billion euros. Porsche's listed preferred shares are worth around 3.6 billion euros, but this excludes the unlisted voting shares held by the Porsche and Piech families.
• Porsche's stable of models is made up of the 911 sports coupe, the Boxster cabrio and its hardtop Cayman variant, the Cayenne SUV and the Panamera luxury sedan, with market launch slated for January 2010. It has plants in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and Leipzig in Germany and uses an assembly plant in Finland.
• VW's brands comprise the namesake VW hallmark on passenger cars, vans and light trucks, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Bentley luxury cars, sports car brands Lamborghini and Bugatti as well as Scania trucks. It has 61 plants in 21 countries including Germany, Spain, Brazil, China and Italy.
* Porsche's sales figures are based on the 12 months through January 2009, taken from its financial reports. VW sales figures are from the company's 2008 annual report.

Automotive News Europe July 23, 2009