Among the European capital goods companies UBS is recommending investors buy are ABB and Scania.
VW, which at the time controlled 34% of Scania's stock, did not support the takeover.
The company also sells commercial trucks and buses under the Volkswagen, Scania and MAN nameplates.
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Early last year it sold its stakes in Scania, a truckmaker, and OMX, a Nordic exchange operator.
Alan Martin, manager of special projects at Scania (Great Britain), said it was "rigorously tested to virtual destruction".
In 2006 the two sparred when Mr Samuelsson launched a hostile bid for Scania, a Swedish truck firm.
Developed by Scania and Alexander Dennis Limited, they have a special compartment on the roof to store the fuel.
It therefore lacks the scale economies enjoyed by the big boys of the truck business, such as Scania and Mercedes.
Volkswagen argues that its own numbers did not include those of truck makers MAN and Scania in which it has majority stakes.
The first mover is expected to be Porsche, which now controls Volkswagen, which, in turn, is the largest shareholder in both Scania and MAN.
The Swiss bank also likes Peugeot which could be snapped up by Fiat and German truck-maker MAN which could be devoured by Scania or Volkswagen.
Besides VW itself, there is Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, SEAT, Skoda, MAN, Scania and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, most of which are multibillion-dollar businesses in their own right.
Volvo pre-tax earnings dropped to 2.9bn Swedish kronor from 4.57bn Swedish kronor a year earlier, while Scania saw pre-tax profit of 2.51bn Swedish kronor from 2.38bn Swedish kronor the year before.
Meanwhile, both Scania and Volvo saw earnings miss forecasts.
Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi may have been "a middleman" for Swedish company Saab-Scania when it was trying to sell fighter aircraft to Delhi in the 1970s, allege cables released by Wikileaks.
Last month MAN completed the purchase of VW's Brazilian truck business, and MAN's chief executive, Hakan Samuelsson, is still keen to join forces with his former employer, Scania, having failed in a hostile bid in 2006.
Philosopher David Brax of Lund University in Scania, Sweden makes a case for hedonism, arguing that our values -- things like friendship, health, prosperity and knowledge -- would not be worth anything if they did not bring us pleasure.
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