The extraordinary life and career of Ferdinand Piëch #179
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel look over the life and work of Ferdinand Piëch. Born in the famous Porsche dynasty, Piëch was a visionary engineer who created the double Le Mans-winning Porsche 917, the revolutionary Audi Quattro and the mighty Bugatti Veyron. He transformed the fortunes of Audi and made Volkswagen the world's biggest car maker. But was there a dark side to his character?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
| 0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
| 0:15.0 | there, |
| 0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:21.0 | This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to episode 179 of the Intercooler podcast with me Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel, my co-host. |
| 0:47.0 | This week we are talking all about Ferdinand Pieck. |
| 0:50.4 | He is the Car Industry Titan who was responsible for the Porsche 917, the Baghetti |
| 0:57.4 | Veyron, the Audi Quattro, the VW Phaeton, all sorts of others, he transformed the fortunes of Audi and of Volkswagen. |
| 1:06.4 | He's part of the Porsche dynasty, that family. |
| 1:11.3 | His is an extraordinary tale. Now from time to time we pick one individual one of these |
| 1:16.7 | just incredible characters from the car industry and do a full episode on them. |
| 1:22.1 | Most recently it was Colin Chapman |
| 1:24.6 | episode 167 if you want to go back and listen to our |
| 1:27.9 | podcast on the Lotus founder but this time it's Ferdinand Pieck. I hope you enjoy listening. Before we get started I will remind you to rate and review the podcast. Please do that and however you're listening to the podcast please just very quickly subscribe or follow. |
| 1:44.4 | Hit the follow button or the subscribe button. It really really helps us. |
| 1:48.3 | Okay, let's get stuck in to this episode. |
| 1:50.9 | Ferdinand Carl Pieck, born 17th of April 1937, died quite recently actually 25th of August |
| 1:57.6 | 2019, but we've chosen him Andrew because he is, goodness me, a fascinating character, one of these |
| 2:05.8 | Titans of the car industry. |
| 2:08.6 | And you can look at him in so many different ways. |
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