I like how desperately this article tries to portray Ferdinand Piëch as a genius when he just got lucky. What if the "great Financial Crisis" of 2008 did not hit and a board member wasn't in bed with German Chancellor? These shenanigans would have blown into Piëch's face.
Porsche also required the VW Rule to be repealed, irregardless of the financial collapse that would have been a sticking point and could have dragged on indefinitely or not happened at all. Porsche would have the 75% it wanted but they couldn't have taken a full acquisition, and Piëch could play the game from that position.
