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Audi/Porsche/VW Says “Nein!” To Formula One…For Now

April 29, 2015

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Although the Audi/Porsche/Volkswagen automotive company discarded its main obstacle to potential Formula One participation – its chairman of the board, Ferdinand Piech – last week, the company is officially saying, for now anyway, that they have no immediate interest in participating in Formula One racing. Speculation had intensified about Audi/Porsche/VW’s possible participation in F1 after […]

Ferdinand The Bull Leaves VW

April 26, 2015

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Ferdinand Piech, the longtime overlord of Volkswagen – the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and second largest in the world behind Toyota – has left the company after losing a power struggle with current CEO Martin Winterkorn. The 78-year-old Piech is the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the inventor of the original Beetle, and has been […]