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Volkswagen also refused to license Bumblebee as a Volkswagen New Beetle under the similar concerns of not wanting to associate their cars with "war toys", but later gave in to having a licensed figure almost a decade later.Hasbro later displayed the prototype during the BotCon 2007 Hasbro Tour TakaraTomy subsequently displayed it as part of Transformers Expo in 2014. Photos of the prototype were first depicted in the Japanese book The Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide. They are war machines and the toyline in no way represents the lifestyle and ideas which Porsche represents." As a consequence, the toy ultimately never went into production. A prototype was made, but Porsche refused to grant Hasbro and Takara the license, stating that "Transformers are not worthy carrying the Porsche trademark. The first toy planned for the Alternators toyline was Jazz (probably to be named "Autobot Jazz" for trademark reasons) as a licensed Porsche 986. Porsche AG does not seem to be particularly fond of Transformers.Instead, Volkswagen then began taking over Porsche in 2009. In 2005, the much smaller Porsche AG tried to take over the larger Volkswagen AG but eventually failed. However, Volkswagen and Porsche officially remained two separate companies, even though they collaborated on several projects, each company held stock of the other one, and members of the Porsche family as well as the Piëch family, which is related to the Porsche family, have been members of on the boards of directors and the supervisory boards of the two companies for decades.

Here's the cliff notes version: Company founder Ferdinand Porsche designed the original "Volkswagen" ("people's car"), later also called the "KdF" car ( "Kraft durch Freude", "power through joy"), which later became known as the "Volkswagen Type 1", or "Volkswagen Beetle", or "Bug". Contrary to common misconceptions, the relationship between Porsche and Volkswagen is a lot more complicated than one being the parent company of the other one (which hasn't been true until a few years ago).Most native English speakers will mispronounce the company's name.
