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Jun 9, 2024 · However, Piëch was more than just a manager — he was also an accomplished engineer involved in making the first Porsche 911 Carrera, the first five-cylinder Mercedes-Benz OM617 diesel engine,...
Trained as an engineer, Piëch had a profound impact on the design and engineering of several iconic vehicles, including the Porsche 911, Porsche 917, Audi Quattro, and most notably the Bugatti Veyron, which, as of 2012, held the title of the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive road-legal car ever produced.
Aug 27, 2019 · Ferdinand Piëch, the gifted but ruthless engineer who transformed Volkswagen into both the world’s largest carmaker by sales and a company beset by scandals, has died aged 82.
Aug 27, 2019 · The late Ferdinand Piëch, former VW boss and ‘car guy’, is the mind behind these great cars. Read more from MOTOR at WhichCar.
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Ferdinand Porsche’s lawyer Anton Piëch became his son-in-law in 1928 and a business partner in 1931 when they together with racing driver Adolf Rosenberger established the Porsche company. The initial shares were as follows: 80% F. Porsche (born 1875, age 55), 10% A. Piëch (born 1894, age 36), 10% A. Rosenberger (born 1900, age 31).
On April 17, 1937, Ferdinand Karl Piëch was born in Vienna, Austria, as the third child of Anton Piëch and Louise Hedwig Anna Wilhelmine Maria Piëch (born Porsche) and as a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche. On May 28, the predecessor to Volkswagen, Gezuvor, was established, with grandfather Ferdinand Porsche as the head engineer and member of the boar...
1941 Father Anton Piëch became head of the Volkswagenwerk, the factory that produced the Porsche designed VW Kübelwagens and Schwimmwagens for the army.
December 15, 1945, father Anton Piëch, grandfather Ferdinand Porsche and uncle Ferry Porsche were arrested and imprisoned by French as war criminals.
In 1962, F. K. Piëch graduated the ETH Zürich Institute of Technology in Switzerland with a degree in mechanical engineering having written the master’s thesis about the development of an F1 engine.
On April 1, 1963 Piëch started working at Porsche, a company founded by his grandfather and co-founded by his father.
In 1966, Piëch became the head of testing. He was also the main force behind the Porsche 906 Carrera 6 introduced in January. Piëch’s idea was to create ultralight racing cars. The 2-litre 6-cylinder 906 weighed only 617 kg / 1360 lbs. Two evolutions of 906 were also made, the fuel-injected 906 E and the 2.2-litre 8-cylinder 906/8. The 906 was a st...
In 1967, Porsche’s wave of racing victories started to arrive. The Targa Florio was completely conquered – all podium places to Porsche! Porsche proved that it can do better than the 1-2-3 victory and just two weeks after the Targa Florio they took the 1-2-3-4 victory at the 1967 Nürburgring 1000 km race. Piëch, just at the age of 30, was about to ...
1967 July 28, Ferdinand Piëch watching as his creation is checked before the Freiburg-Schauinsland hill climb competition. This is a 910/8 Bergspyder.© Willy Pragher / Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, reference no. LABW_5-797835-1 1968 Piëch became head of development at Porsche. On February 4, Porsche achieved its first overall victory in 24 hour r...
For the new racing season in 1969, an absolutely new 12-cylinder Porsche 917 racing car was created under the commandership of Ferdinand Piëch. The 917 was offered to motorsport customers for a price that was approximately 10 times the price of a 911, but less than the actual development costs. The first version of the 917 was a cool-looking longta...
Aug 27, 2019 · Ferdinand Piëch, a former Volkswagen Group chairman and one of the most influential figures in the automotive industry, died at 82 on 25 August 2019 in a German hospital.
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Aug 26, 2019 · They gave birth to Ferdinand Piëch, and his proximity to two Alfa Romeo sports cars — Porsche had done some work for the Italians — and the "Berlin-Rome-Berlin" race car, developed by Porsche ...
