{"id":77,"date":"2008-06-03T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/06\/03\/vw-ceo-threaten\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:54:51","slug":"vw-ceo-threaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/06\/03\/vw-ceo-threaten\/","title":{"rendered":"VW CEO threatens to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/db2007au01506_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/db2007au01506_small.jpg\" alt=\"Db2007au01506_small\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> Martin Winterkorn is more and more upset by Porsche\u2019s will to interfere with the VW\u2019s operations and has threatened to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche\u2019s will to interfere with the VW\u2019s brands generate more and more frustration among companies\u2019 executives, especially at Audi. The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel reports that premium carmaker\u2019s managers are more and more concerned by Porsche involvement. In an attempt to increase its sales to 1.5 million vehicles by 2018, the carmaker has started expanding its lineup and some models are competing with Porsche models. Unhappy with the results, Porsche has started to interfere with the future lineup. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrol-head.com\/2008\/04\/audi-rules-out.html\">The rumoured R4 has been canceled by Audi<\/a>. It isn\u2019t confirmed whether Audi took the decision alone, but the R4 was expected to compete with the Porsche Cayman.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time it might happen. A longtime rumour suggests that Porsche had obliged Audi to cancel a similar project fifteen years ago. Audi was developing&nbsp; the Quattro coup\u00e9 which would have competed with the future Porsche Boxster. Under pressure from Porsche as rumoured, the German carmaker canceled the project.<\/p>\n<p>Aware of the situation, the former Audi\u2019s CEO has sent a warning to Porsche. How will Piech react? The former VW CEO and Porsche shareholder brought Winterkorn at the head of VW and also helped Porsche to acquire 31 per cent of VW. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Winterkorn is more and more upset by Porsche\u2019s will to interfere with the VW\u2019s operations and has threatened to resign. Porsche\u2019s will to interfere with the VW\u2019s brands generate more and more frustration among companies\u2019 executives, especially at Audi. The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel reports that premium carmaker\u2019s managers are more and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":7327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audi","category-porsche","category-vw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VW CEO threatens to resign - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/06\/03\/vw-ceo-threaten\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"VW CEO threatens to resign - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Martin Winterkorn is more and more upset by Porsche\u2019s will to interfere with the VW\u2019s operations and has threatened to resign. 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