>picrel Ferdinand Piech, responsible for leading the projects for the Bugatti Veyron, VW Phaeton, W8, V10 and Audi V12 TDI projects>Piëch has been described as being socially awkward and having an abrasive personality; some automotive journalists who have encountered Piëch described him as being uncomfortable to be around.>"Many of his CEO peers said they could not hold a normal conversation with him. Discussions could be punctuated with long stretches of unexplained silence.>Piëch was known as an aggressive and demanding manager, who set both lofty and extremely specific goals and standards for projects. He would often become personally involved in vehicle development, such as how he oversaw the development of the Audi 100's aerodynamics himself, keeping it secret from even Audi's top engineers to prevent any crucial details of the car's aerodynamic capabilities from leaking to competitors.>As Piëch rose to the top of Volkswagen in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then-CEO Carl Hahn took notice of Piëch's poor social skills and tried to position him as a technocrat kept behind closed doors.Hahn was particularly bothered by how Piëch behaved during a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine; while a Shinto priest was showing the shrine's collection of vintage swords, Piëch examined one and told the priest that it was a fake Subsequently, Hahn presented the Audi Avus quattro concept car himself at the 1991 Tokyo Motor Show and didn't allow Piëch to take part, which infuriated Piëch due to his extensive personal involvement in the Avus quattro's creation.
>>29139197>>iëch often liked to ride along with automotive journalists during press test drives and would consider their critiques to improve Volkswagen's vehicles. Car and Driver writer John Phillips recounted how when he test drove the Volkswagen New Beetle during its launch in 1997, Piëch rode along and asked for his opinion on how its chassis and driving dynamics could be improved.Similarly, Piëch once demanded that an Automobile reviewer take the Volkswagen Phaeton up to its top speed while he rode along in the back seat.>Piëch often spearheaded the development of audacious vehicles or oversaw business decision and strategies that baffled analysts, but still proved beneficial for the company as a whole.In recounting some of the extraordinary vehicles Volkswagen put in production under Piëch's watch, Wired noted that he alone pushed the Bugatti Veyron supercar into production, despite objection from other executives as well as the fact that Volkswagen lost what is believed to be millions on every Veyron sold:"Consider that for a moment. Long past the average retirement age, this gent greenlit one of the largest automotive losses in history and managed to keep his job. Moreover, he was hailed as a hero."
>>29139198>In 2014, fellow automotive executive Bob Lutz recounted a conversation he had with Piëch at the Frankfurt Auto Show in the early 1990s, in which he remarked how he was impressed with the fit and finish and tight body tolerances on Volkswagen's new models. Piëch told Lutz that he achieved this by assembling Volkswagen's top body engineers in his office and telling them they would all be fired if all of Volkswagen's vehicles didn't have body tolerances of 3 millimeters within six weeks.
>>29139197Sounds like he browses here.
>>29139197>>29139198>>29139200Why didn't he make VW's cars reliable? the VW pheaton, the W8 engine, the V10 and V12 TDI projects were all rube goldberg machinery.
>>29139197Autists who spend all there time on there craft are miracles.
>>29139228it's because he was autistic and German, he assumed that anyone buying those cars would autistically maintain them to factory new standards.
>>29139228Shoulda bring it to top speed every month as he envisioned
>>29139197>>29139198>>29139200He wasn't an autist, he was just an unbelievebly stubborn and dour son of a bitch. He was raised in a literal slave labour factory that his father ran before he died during the war while his cousins on the Porsche side lived in luxury and mocked him for being a Piëch. His entire career was basically just him trying to outperform and usurp company and industry power from his Porsche side of the family out of spite.
>>29139393Are German family feuds really this? >You're team Volkswagen and I'm team Porsche and you're gay and stupid while I'm rich and hot
>>29139397If you want to go full /x/ with it, the guy who signed off on diesel gate was a husband to one of Ferdinand's cousins, and in private Ferdinand suspected that the guy was conspiring with his Porsche wife to tarnish Piëch's name with the scandal. Why? Well one of Piëchs biggest obsessions and pet projects during his career was to make diesel engines viable for production cars, and of course diesel gate tainted that for the US market.
>>29139400That's funny as fuck. Imagine the whole automotive industry getting fucked over because of a petty autistic family cockmeasuring feud. Germans never cease to amaze me.
>>29139228>rube goldberg machinery.>AutisticMakes sense to me
>>29139406Same shit with the Murdochs, Arnaults etc etc.
>>29139228cars were always meant to be recycled after 5-10 years. obsessing over longgevity and ease of keeping it alive is a post 2000s thing
>>29139228Those are all still out there running if anyone is willing to pay for labor to do it.
>while a Shinto priest was showing the shrine's collection of vintage swords, Piëch examined one and told the priest that it was a faketurns out he was correct btw. They re-examined the sword later and confirmed it was a reproduction.
>>29139559>nobody ever had nice things that lasted a long time!niggerfaggot, boomers were driving their 1950-1970s dream cars in the 90s too. Fuck, our high school cars in the 90s were things like broncos from the 80s or old 1970s land barges. They all drove fine and were dead simple to fix and maintain.
The Eternal Austrian, everyone.
>>29140210>t. niggermaybe in california or some other desert shithole.The ford model A is a better car than whatever the fuck the US shat out in the 1950s.Ever since the industry trooonsitioned to spot welded steel sheets, cars became a consumable.That only changed when we euro chads rolled out galvanic rust prevention
>>2914055050-70s cars still exist all over here in the rust belt. I've never seen a 50s-70s european car rolling around the road in my life.
>>29140588>ive never seen a postwar german car in my flyover stateshockingfunsies aside, if you truthfully havent seen a vw t1 on the road, youre the biggest hillbilly ive ever came across
>>29140206>japs trying to scam yet againHonorary aryan my ass
>>29140206To be fair and balanced, the US made everyone in Japan turn in their swords after WWII. The Honjo Masamune, a national treasure, has never been recovered along with many of their historical weapons.
>>29140594maybe you can see them at car shows, which is where your image seems to come from, but no one daily drives these like the 70s american land barge you can find even on used car lots to this day.
>>29140727>like the 70s american land bargeduh its a 50s car
One of the oddest psychological phenomena in our modern times is for young males to have the "Chud Hero Complex" Autistic chuds think they're misunderstood, gifted individuals, and that only they have the true capability to make great change in the world.
>>29139197Because being focused on excruciating levels of detail and obsessed with a goal is good for the goals of an engineer and having no social life is good for your academic and professional success. t. engineer
>>29140808>have no social life>too dumb to be an engineer
>Obsessed with 4 strokes>Hates 2 strokes so much that he forces his team of engineers to make a 20,000 rpm 50cc 4 stroke because ridiculous revvs was the only way to beat the 2 strokes>Had frequent anger outburstsWas Soichiro Honda autistic?
>>29139200>telling them they would all be fired if all of Volkswagen's vehicles didn't have body tolerances of 3 millimeters within six weeks.Fuck I love hard core bosses like that.They can't do shit like that anymore.Too many anti firing laws
>>29139198based autist cannot have his feelings hurt and only wants to know what areas of his car need improving
>>29140729american 50s cars are comfortable. that thing was the result of extreme nazi socialism and is only something you'd ride in as a novelty.
>>29140829based and yesif only Toyoda had the foresight to hire such a man.
>>29139200The funniest part about this stupid story is that if he did fire them, VW would have actually suffered. Just getting rid of perfectly good engineers "as an example" is retarded and has nothing to do with engineering.
>>29139559Longevity is a 70s thing, retard. Everyone was sick of their cars breaking down. It's one of the reasons Japan easily broke into the US market.
>>29140951>american 50s cars are comfortablethe delusional shit boomies keep telling themself kek
>>29140829having owned a 2-stroke now, it's amazing. Simple, fun, great noise, good power. Why do all the faggots hate them?
>>29141631Mr. Honda called them stinky noise machines. I guess they triggeeed his sensory issues lol.
>OILU>>IN CYLINDURU?!>>>SHAMFUR DISPRAY!
lol
>>29141506>t. zoomer nigglet who's never been in a land yacht
And yet not a single VW made during his time had intact interior fabrics or headliner past five years of the date of manufacture
>>29139197>both lofty and extremely specific goals and standards for projectsWhy didn't he set a goal for their cars to last longer than 4 years?
>>29139228They do, you just need to do the proper maintenance, which might be too much for you considering your ESL grammar
