Not a nice guy but hugely successful and a fundamental part of the Porsche story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KKiqibOxoc&t=161s

Thanks for that!

It's a just released production from Jason Cammisa of Hagerty Media posted on their YouTube channel late last night. Larry Webster highlighted it this morning in his weekly 'Never Stop Driving' newsletter:

https://www.hagerty.com/media/never-sto ... iechesode/

"One of the most anticipated videos of the year just debuted on our YouTube channel: Jason Cammisa’s deep dive into the career and complicated personality of Ferdinand Piëch.

I cherish the characters and personalities behind the cars we love, and Piëch, who passed in 2019, was supremely colorful. The grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who designed the VW Beetle and sired a son who founded the Porsche sports car company, Piëch possessed a seemingly inexhaustible drive that propelled him to produce the Le Mans-winning Porsche 917, the Audi Quattro, the Bugatti Veyron, and a multitude of other cars that changed the automotive landscape for decades. “All he cared about,” Cammisa said, “was making great cars.”

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