Ford once refused an offer to take over Volkswagen for free
After Volkswagen's Fallersleben plant was partially destroyed post World War II, the British offered Volkswagen to Ford, free of charge. However, Ford founder's eldest grandson Henry Ford II described Volkswagen's Beetle car 'a little box' and refused the offer. Rejecting the offer, his right-hand man Ernest Breech said, "What we're being offered here, Mr. Ford, isn't worth a damn!"