The Warring Porsche-VW Bloodlines Explained

I recently threw in the towel on handicapping the Porsche-Volkswagen takeover merger Teutonic family melodrama. As of…today, it’s looking like Porsche is still trying to extract itself from a reverse takeover by wooing a few billion from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.

But thanks to Carter Dougherty of the New York Times for laying out the intertwined family trees of Porsche and VW. This seesaw deal is as much about blood as it is about sheet metal, so it’s worthwhile to consider who’s doing what because of who their father or grandfather was.