Wolfgang Duerheimer, former head of Porsche R&D is heading to the company's luxury side to focus his piercing gaze attention on Bentley and Bugatti as well as assuming the title of motorsport director for the Volkswagen Group.
"Wolfgang Durheimer personifies the outstanding technical competency of Porsche...He will bring this expertise and his experience to Bentley and Bugatti," Martin Winterkorn, chairman of the board of management of Volkswagen AG said in a statement on Monday.
During his time with Porsche, Duerheimer was instrumental in the creation of the Cayenne, Panamera, RS Spyder and the development of the new 911. Durheimer is a Fulbright Scholar and spent time at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University working on his advanced engineering degrees.
Duerheimer is replacing the retiring but still on The Board Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen, and is succeded in the R&D post by Wolfgang Hatz.
tp660 says:
01:39 PM, 11/29/10
Wow, I didn't know Napolean Dynamite used to work at Porsche.
smas says:
02:55 PM, 11/29/10
That is really too bad; I thought Bentley and Bugatti were some good looking cars. Lets hope he doesn't bring any design ideas over from the Cayenne or Panamera.
zoomzoomn says:
04:56 AM, 11/30/10
Ha! This guy looks like the character Piter De Vries from the movie Dune!!! :)
copy/paste link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piter_De_Vries
racinbilly says:
09:30 AM, 12/ 2/10
"Science!!!!"