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Ferdinand Piech, engineer who forged VW into giant, dies at 82

VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech with the New Beetle RSI at the 1999 Detroit auto show. (Str Old/REUTERS)
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Bloomberg
August 26, 2019 08:15 PM

Ferdinand Piech, the dominating and demanding former chairman and CEO who transformed Volkswagen Group into one of the world’s biggest automakers, adding Porsche and other nameplates to its holdings, has died. He was 82.

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