Re: VW/Audi/Porsche connection

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Also the first 924's had audi engines.
sean

Andrei Talalaevskii wrote:

> Winslow Douglas asked:
>
> One more question to the collective. Don't crucify me because I think
> this was answered before, What is the relation between Audi & Porsche? I
> already know that Audi falls under the Volkswagen umbrella, but I
> remember reading a old motor Trend magazine and they were saying that
> the 944 is not a true Porsche because they raided Volkswagen/Audi parts
> bin to construct this car.
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is answered in great detail in the book "VW Chronicle". I got it from
> Borders. It is written very competently (as far as I can judge) and is
> full of beautiful illustration. The roots of Porsche-VW connection starts
> from the idea of Ferdinand Porsche to build a people's car. The idea found
> it's support in Nazi Government and the plant in
> Wolfsburg was built from scratch under Hitler's order. Porsche was running
> it. Soon the war started. Thus, the plant, not called VW at that time yet,
> was working mainly on military machines...
>
> This people's car was Beetle.... who wnet into mass production after the
> war only...
>
> The connection never ended, Current CEO of VW is a grandson of Porsche the
> First. However, unlike in Audi's case, VW was never even close to owning
> Porsche.
>
> As for your particular question, as far as I remember from that
> book, Porsche Buro, whose influence on VW was very strong at those times,
> approached VW with the idea to build together a sports car.
>
> After some time and significant expenses from both sides VW chiefs lost
> their interests in the project and sold or gave to Ferry Porsche (son of
> Ferdinand Porsche) who was by that time a head of Porsche Company a Carte
> Blanche to continue on his own and that's how 924 came out. 944 was
> developed out of 924. It is still a Porsche, but there is a lot of VAG
> contribution in it.
>
> I hope things haven't mixed up in my head. If they did, please don't be
> cruel.
>
> Andrei