I guess I am the only anti-Piech in here
Personally, I hope Ferdinand Piech just go find a hole somewhere and hide for the rest of his life and we don't hear a beep from him ever again. He is bad for ANY car company.
He is NOT a car guy by any means, he is just another ego-maniac who just do things to boost his own personal ego without regards to the good of the company, and I believe the sex-scandal at VW was directly related to him, he treat his staff to wild sex parties to 'reward' their loyalty to his madness.
VW was once a promising company, buying up Bugatti, Bentley, Lambo, Audi etc, he COULD have structure the VW group into a mega group that covers the whole market top to bottom with no overlap. But because of his stupid ego, he THINKS his own company, VW, should not be at the bottom of that scale, despite what the company's name says, he keeps trying to push VW the brand up market all the while cannibalizing sales of other brands in the company because he has no idea he would hurt other brands in the group. Or he doesn't care.
While he is doing that, sensing a company in trouble, everyone else move in for the kill and now VW is left with a tattered balance sheet. VW is STILL recovering from Piech's madness right now and IF he does manage to dismiss WW, I am sure he will find a way to wreck Porsche too. I can already see him make $15000 Porsche to compete with SEAT at the low end and $500,000 Porsche to compete with the Bugatti on the other side. And don't forget he WILL make sure the Panamera competes directly with the Audi A8/ VW Phaeton and reposition 911s into doing battle with the Audi R8 and Lambo G more directly than even now. Or he might put a VW instead of a Porsche badge on the 911, who knows what other devilish scheme he still has in his twisted brain.
O, and Fiat-Ferrari will be laughing all the way to the bank with defected customers from Porsche's loyalist customers.
Deep down, I hope WW can survive Piech's assault, if you guys thinks WW is bad for Porsche, what Piech has coming is even worst. Heck he might sell it to the Chinese if he is crazy enough.