Originally Posted by Itsuki_23

Funny that employee of Audi is saying those things. From a BMW or to a lesser extent Mercedes person would not loose so much face saying those things. BMW does not share its components with any lower price range brands, but after Mercedes and Chrysler merged during last few years Mercedes has been sharing lot of components with Chrysler.

First of all VAG - Volkswagen Audi Group is has 4 large brands under its hat + Porsche and Lamborghini. Those big 4 are Audi, Vokswagen, Seat and Skoda(budget oriented, origin is Eastern-European before VAG bought it up http://www.skoda-auto.com/ ). For example Audi A8 has rear cup holders that were initially used on smaller class cheap Skoda etc.