father of the vw beetle: Porsche or Ganz? (part 2/2)

[kickinbackinOC]

Fascinating, didn't know about this at all. Thanks for posting it.

I wonder, in the future, if Toyota Corp will be exposed as having stolen almost every single design element from Mercedes Benz? The LS400, orignal flagship of the new Lexus brand, looks almost identical to the current large Mercedes of it's time. Talk about shameless rip-offs!

[SchizoSystems]

@TheStrategist01 Like there is something to steal from french... even if you steal somehing there you have to completely overhaul it first to improve it

[ndgmtlcd]

Porsche also stole from the earlier rear-engined aerodynamic designs of the Ledwinkas in nearby Czechoslovakia. They conceived and built big luxury Tatras with those features in the 1930s and later the smaller VW sized Tatra-97. All of them predated the final VW design and all of them were produiced and sold to the public before WWII.

[RenzeZielman]

The fact was that MANY engineers were speaking of this new concept in press and society, but Porsche got the money to execute this common idea of engineering Europe.

Another fact is that the Beetle chassis construction was patented by Tatra, and was produced since the early 20's

Hans Ledwinka laid the foundation for the concept, but in the 30's it was a commonly discussed idea among engineering Europe. They couldnt do much because they were restricted by the Tatra patents, but Hitler didnt care

[kiddopocktoole]

It's amazing how Dutch is spoken in both "British" and "American" accents. Must be that the speaker was primarily British, but the Schiperoord guy must have been Dutch primarily, or Dutch speakers do have regional accents just like English speakers do.