Germany’s Handelsblatt received rare access to the usually secretive Porsche patriarch Piech. The Chairman of the Volkswagen Supervisory Board has big plans for his family’s company once Porsche has been assimilated. Here is an excerpt from his list of Porsche Plans:
- Porsche will get a smaller SUV, below the Cayenne, to compete with the likes of the BMW X5, Mercedes M-Class, but also with some Audi Qs …
- Then, a planned Volkswagen sports car of unknown type will emerge as a Porsche. Nobody has approved this, but what Piech wants, Piech gets.
- The hybrid 918 Spyder shall go in series production. If necessary, built by hand, and priced at €500,000. Piech wants it that way.
- To make sure that Piech gets what he wants, his and Winterkorn’s confidante Michael Müller will definitely head up Porsche.
And what’s holding up an announcement of at least some of the plans? The state of Lower Saxony holds the famous 20 percent in Volkswagen, and Lower Saxony’s Premier Christian Wulff will most likely be the next President of Germany. (A job with less power than the Queen of England. The final say-so in Germany rests with the Chancellor, Frau Merkel.) When Wulff is elected on June 30, there will be a vacancy on the board. That will be filled by David McAllister, a good German with a British name. That needs to be papered first. Any grand announcements will not happen until this is done. But what Piech wants, Piech gets.
SUV smaller than the Cayenne, not Cayman.
Porschuan?
So Piech is a sort-of German ‘Dr. Evil’, eh?
Man, she’s gorgeous.
Obligatory: Does she come with the car?
Production 918? New 924? No mention of a new 928, but I’ll take it.
A Porsche SUV to compete with Audi, piss off VW by giving their product to Porsche. Sounds like a future GM mess.
Can always rebrand another Veedub, most of the buyers from Middle Kingdom cant tell whats inside, or just shoe-horn another Porsche 400 HP engine in it.Just like a Kleptomaniac that’l take anything as long as didnt have to pay for it.
To build a new smaller Porsche will make very little money sense, kind of good money chae after bad money.
Afterall how many times to re-invent the wheel?
After viewing the picture, I found myself, interested, more interested, more interested, even more interested and then, not interested at all.
Then you rolled over, watched some TV, and went to sleep?