amir sarmad:
I dont get it though, they are all spawns of ferdinand porshce. One would obviously want to bail out the patriarch or the eldest in the family in such a situation. That is why they probably bailed out ferry (saviour of the buisness). Unless of coarse, they didn't bail out Anton on purpose. Maybe Anton wasn't fully accepted in the family and was faced with discrimination? BUt if this was the case, why would Piech still want to work in the family buisness?
As Anton was travelling with Porsche Sr and Ferry, he is obviously intergral part of the business and family and he wouldn't be there if he wan't fully accepted.
Ferry was released first and he made enough money to free Sr, there was no mention of Anton but one would figured Anton was also freed together with Sr. Unless of course there wan't enough money and Anton was left in the prison for a extended period of time after Ferry bailed out Sr. If that's the case, it would make a strong argument for Ferdinand Piech to be hostile towards the Porsche family.
Ferdinand Piech only spent about 8 years in the Porsche company, right after he got out of college, so basically it was his first job. He left the Porsche company right after the family established a policy of not allowing family members to be in a management position, I think this was a crushing blow to the youth Piech, he dream of running the Porsche company one day but this policy basically castrated his dreams. From that point onwards he never worked for the Porsche company again, working in competing firms and finally worked his way up to the top of the VAG.
His distaste for Porsche can even be seen when he spec-ed the Veyron, it was faster than the famed Porsche 917, a extremely successful race car he created for Porsche, this way he thinks he got the last laugh for making a road car faster than Porsche's best race car.
It was also rumored that Ferdinand Piech used his influence as a shareholder to scraped the Porsche LMP project, thus pretty much ensuring the then brand new Audi R8's maiden victory at the famed circuit and the dominance since.
All evidences pointed to Piech trying to trip up Porsche at even chance he got, if he doesn't have any beef against the Porsche family, why bother?