1999, ISBN: 9781156882795

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: August Horch, Ferdinand Piëch, Walter De'silva, Martin Winterkorn, Laurens Van Den Acker, Luc Donckerwolke, Dirk Van Braeckel, Wolfgang Egger, Rupert Stadler, Ulrich Baretzky. Excerpt: Ferdinand Karl Piëch (17 April 1937) is an Austrian automobile engineer and manager. He is a grandson of Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: August Horch, Ferdinand Piëch, Walter De'silva, Martin Winterkorn, Laurens Van Den Acker, Luc Donckerwolke, Dirk Van Braeckel, Wolfgang Egger, Rupert Stadler, Ulrich Baretzky. Excerpt: Ferdinand Karl Piëch (17 April 1937) is an Austrian automobile engineer and manager. He is a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, and son of Louise Piëch (the sister of Ferry Porsche). Piëch was the winner of the award of Car Executive of the Century in 1999. Born in Vienna, Austria, Piëch graduated from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1962, with a degree in mechanical engineering, having written a master thesis about the development of a Formula One (F1) engine. At the same time, Porsche was involved in F1 and developed an 8-cylinder for the Porsche 804. From 1963 to 1971, he worked at Porsche in Stuttgart, on the development of the Porsche 906 and following models that led to the successful Porsche 917. In 1972, he moved to Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany. Starting from 1975, he was manager of technological engineering, being responsible for the concepts of the Audi 80 and Audi 100. He celebrated his 40th birthday on 17 April 1977 with a ball at which guests included Giorgetto Giugiaro and at which the staff of the Porsche Hotel presented him with an Audi 80 that was just 40 cm (16 in) long and constructed of marzipan. In 1977 he also began the development of a car for the World Rally Championship, resulting in the four-wheel drive Audi Quattro. The engine used in the Quattro model was a turbocharged inline-5 cylinder unit. Piëch held a small engineering company in the time between leaving Porsche AG and joining Audi, and while there he developed a 5 cylinder in-line diesel engine for Mercedes-Benz. He picked up the concept again after moving to Audi, because there Books, , Audi-People~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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