{"id":7514,"date":"2015-04-25T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2015-07-11T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:40:02","slug":"7514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=7514","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hermann-Bredehorst-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hermann-Bredehorst-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at VW factory\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hermann-Bredehorst-s.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hermann-Bredehorst-s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FERDINAND PIECH RESIGNS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Ferdinand Piech became chairman and CEO of Volkswagen in 1993. He turned the company around and added top marques like Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti. Under Piech&#8217;s direction, VW bought Porsche in 2012 and in the process became Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker &#8211; just four years after Porsche made a failed attempt to buy VW. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the &#8217;60s, Piech pushed the boundaries at Porsche, ultimately creating the 917. His resignation signifies the end of a long power struggle at VW\/Audi\/Porsche. It&#8217;s the end of an era.<\/p>\n<p>Portrait: Hermann Bredehorst <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FERDINAND PIECH RESIGNS A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Ferdinand Piech became chairman and CEO of Volkswagen in 1993. He turned the company around and added top marques like Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti. Under Piech&#8217;s direction, VW bought Porsche in 2012 and in the process became Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker &#8211; just four years after Porsche made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=7514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7889,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}