Talk:MAN SE

History
This article should include a history section.

Agreed. There's a large gap of its history during world war two for example. The Panther medium tank was an important and famous tank during the war and yet no reference to this? I believe this article needs to include a lot more of the company's history. 203.118.180.219 (talk) 21:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)Elysium203.118.180.219 (talk) 21:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Everyone was on vacation! Kar98 (talk) 02:01, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

According to the company's anniversary film, MAN is a merged company between Maschinenfabrik Augsburg and Nurnburg. So,Rudolph Diesel is not it's founder202.93.37.90 (talk) 06:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

The company
Most of this article had been set up to focus on the bus division. The bus division accounts for about 7% of total sales. This company is so much more than a "bus" maker. It get slightly over 30% of sales from the TRUCK division, the biggest single revenue driver of the company (no pun intended).

2004 revenue breakdown:
 * 7,409 49.6% MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
 * 3,185 21.3 MAN Ferrostaal AG
 * 1,620 10.8 MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
 * 1,421 9.5 MAN B&W Diesel AG
 * --659 4.4 MAN TURBO AG
 * __________
 * percent 95.6 Total Divisions
 * Misc:   4.4 (including financial transactions)
 * €14,947 Total

Please help to add more about the other division, not just the bus division. WikiDon 08:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

SAF Singapore Armed Forces is using Man AG tonners
http://www.mindef.gov.sg/armynews/display1.asp?ArticleId=168 http://www.mindef.gov.sg/cyberpioneer/backissues_may03_2.htm

Fair use rationale for Image:MAN logo290306.jpg
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WWII
Seems quite strange to omit any mention of the fact that hundreds of WWII German U-boats were powered by MAN diesels. Sca (talk) 19:17, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

MAN SE vs. MAN Group
"MAN Group" is not an exact synonym for MAN SE (previously MAN AG): to quote page 73 of the 2008 MAN AG Annual Report: The MAN Group is headed by MAN Aktiengesellschaft, which is the Group’s Corporate Center. Therefore I think the description "parent company of the MAN Group" is an accurate one for MAN SE. Letdorf (talk) 13:06, 12 January 2010 (UTC).

Article layout
This article has a strange layout with a huge blank space and what in effect is a gallery above the main body of the article. Is this some new style to wikipedia articles ?

Looking at the German one in comparison to this it is sadly lacking something. (unfortunately i cannot read german so cannot see what is missing). All the bus bit seems out of place /unbalanced and would have thought that would in the subsidary article MAN AG Buses with some summary history in MAN SE and more in the Bus article. Other subsidaries such as the Wolffkran are missing (seen in most major cities) but there is a German article Here. For a major European company with a long history this is one of the most disappointing wikipedia articles I have seen.

BTW: The Bus article Hybrid section was all copy vio, from the man hybrid web site page.

- BulldozerD11 (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I've moved the "gallery" images into an actual gallery under the Subsidiaries section, for want of a better place. Feel free to expand the parts you feel are lacking. You could always run the German WP page through Google Translate or similar to get some idea of its content. Letdorf (talk) 13:17, 17 February 2010 (UTC).


 * Hi Letdorf, layout looks better now. Thanks for suggestion on translation, I have used it before but its still very hard to make sense of and copy and paste gets garbled results that tak so much cleaning up. Have discovered that Wolffkran were actually sold to a mbo/venture capital group in 2005. And other non core business were disposed of. It was too late to look at fixing articles after the side trip to the bus article. At least i found the company (Wolff) web site.


 * This is just one of thousands of articles I could fix if i had the time (was rather late when i found it) so better to flag up as walk on by and never find my way back. - BulldozerD11 (talk) 20:09, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in MAN SE
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of MAN SE's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AR2013": From Celesio:  From Axel Springer AG:  From Fielmann:  From Aareal Bank:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 06:56, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

M-A-N North Carolina?
The Freightliner article, which links to here, mentions taking over a M-A-N plant in Cleveland, NC, in 1989. Yet there is no mention of US manufacturing anywhere in this article. 50.0.36.187 (talk) 17:34, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

List(s) of products?
Are there any sources that would allow collating a list of MAN'a key products? E.g.: list of trucks manufactured / designed by MAN. Regards, DPdH (talk) 14:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

German or European?
It think it should be "MAN SE ... is a European mechanical engineering company" instead of "MAN SE ... is a German mechanical engineering company". What do you know or think? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 19:48, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Dead link
Link 21 goes to a 404 page: "GIR Search - GIR - Global Investigations Review". globalinvestigationsreview.com. Retrieved 15 July 2020. 216.243.58.119 (talk) 22:39, 26 November 2022 (UTC)