{"id":71697,"date":"2009-12-08T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/08\/report-volkswagen-to-take-20-stake-in-suzuki\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T23:39:00","slug":"report-volkswagen-to-take-20-stake-in-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/71697","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Volkswagen to take 20% stake in Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/suzuki\/\" rel=\"tag\">Suzuki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volkswagen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volkswagen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/earnings-financials\/\" rel=\"tag\">Earnings\/Financials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/suzuki-logo-s-black-sinister-250.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/>Where there&#8217;s smoke, there&#8217;s fire. Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/suzuki\">Suzuki<\/a> CEO Osamu Suzuki would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/03\/report-suzuki-ceo-nips-vw-tie-up-rumors-in-the-bud\/\">beg to differ<\/a>, it seems that the old saying has once again been proven prescient. After a ton of rumor, innuendo and speculation on the matter along with the subsequent denials, a fresh report from <em>Reuters<\/em> indicates that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/volkswagen\">Volkswagen<\/a> is indeed on the verge of announcing that it&#8217;s procuring a 20% stake in Suzuki.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that the news is accurate, it will cost VW roughly $2.8 billion (250 billion yen) to purchase a fifth of Suzuki. Anonymous sources (aren&#8217;t they all these days) suggest that the German automaker&#8217;s share in Suzuki could easily rise to a controlling thirty-percent-plus stake.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5B72ZA20091208\">Reuters<\/a> | Image: Gabriel Bouys\/AFP\/Getty]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/08\/report-volkswagen-to-take-20-stake-in-suzuki\/\">REPORT: Volkswagen to take 20% stake in Suzuki<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:39:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5B72ZA20091208>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/08\/report-volkswagen-to-take-20-stake-in-suzuki\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19270242\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/08\/report-volkswagen-to-take-20-stake-in-suzuki\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Suzuki, Volkswagen, Earnings\/Financials Where there&#8217;s smoke, there&#8217;s fire. Though Suzuki CEO Osamu Suzuki would beg to differ, it seems that the old saying has once again been proven prescient. After a ton of rumor, innuendo and speculation on the matter along with the subsequent denials, a fresh report from Reuters indicates that Volkswagen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}