Longstanding tensions between the Porsche and Piëch families lie at the heart of Germany’s flagship companyVolkswagen could easily gain ended up a British company. After the second world war,the British army, led by Maj Ivan Hirst, and decided to try to salvage the carmaker’s factory in Wolfsburg rather than destroy it. They instructed VW to construct 20000 cars to wait on the army travel around the British occupation zone,of which Wolfsburg was fragment.
The factory was then offered to Britain as war reparations. However, a delegation led by Sir William Rootes – later Lord Rootes and head of the carmaker Rootes – decided that VW was not worth the money. He is purported to gain said that the Beetle was too evil and too noisy”.
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Source: theguardian.com