Brilliant engineer ranks with Henry Ford and Gottleib Daimler for transforming struggling Volkswagen into world-beater Ferdinand Piech, the Porsche family patriarch who transformed Volkswagen from a struggling carmaker into a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 82.Piech, the grandson of sports car and VW Beetle pioneer Ferdinand Porsche, died on Sunday in Rosenheim, Bavaria, his wife said. Continue reading…
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