OMG that’s not professional at all. I mean they might have reasons to spy but using a baby-phone on the room is very weird and offensive IMO. This may cause a internal split inside VW.

But THEY are forgetting about the other company. Higher Trobony!!!! (Rimshot)

I’m still at a bit of a loss to understand how Porsche is even in the position to acquire majority in VAG.

Nonetheless, the German press must be having the time of their lives these days. First they have the Max Mosely Nazi sex tape scandal and now this.

Well, just proves you that elected official most often are degenerates, even in Germany (wait it is prerequisite in Germany). Anyone with half a brain would put a baby monitor in a hotel room where Bill Clinton stays: you would hear his balls slamming against some mama’s ass. The Porsche guy? What would you get on him? Some gay porn flick.

autonut – you seem to be a big fan of Bill Clinton. I don’t think that would be anything new though. Much more important to spy on the “Porsche guy” because he is involved with this big-time takeover of Volkswagen

Commodore, what the hell he gonna do in his hotel room? Talk business? He is industrialist I am sure he knows where to open trap and where not. Only political hack would think that something bigger then screwing occurs in hotel room.
And yes I am fan of Bill: I am sure he can put on a porn show much better then some lame Porsche exec. I remember congress hearing and it was better then SNL.

autonut: I think you underestimate the kind of lives these guys lead. They never get off the phone unless the other party they wish to converse with is across the dinner table. A hotel room- any hotel room- should be secure. If there are incidents such as this it is because corporate security didn’t do their job. It is up to them to maintain a ‘bubble’ around their man, just like and maybe more so than protection for any political leader . Bill Clinton may have been your President for two terms, but his salary during that entire period didn’t even come close to one year’s ‘compensation’ for this guy.

Who doesn’t want to tap a Porsche?

that is so damn unprofessional! shame.

I think the “baby phone” was actually a ****ing dildo and the media found out, so now they’re trying to spin the story a certain way to avoid shedding light on the homosexual deviant ways of the Porsche brass.

So they found a listening device and without any evidence LLN is saying it is Lower Saxony?
Maybe it’s Mercedes.
Maybe it’s Honda.
Maybe it’s Audi since they are pissing with Porsche about the RS label.
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Sheesh – this isn’t journalism; it’s baseless conjecture.

BTW, when I lived in Munich a GF would take me to swingers’ and erotica parties to watch the pervert freakshow and a lot of BMW brass would show. One BMW guy (who will remain nameless) liked to hang out naked in a trashcan while the rest of us threw our trash on him, and then there were others who crawled about in chaps or leather thongs led on chains.

I’ll refrain from other details, but it was quite entertaining.

Mayer, I have no need to know about your personal life. I find it humourous that you felt the need to put all of that under the heading “BMW brass”.

Johnny Canuck:

Very true.. But it’s a lot more of a difference..

Wendelin Wiedeking made an estimated € 60 mill last year, about $96.000.000 at the current exchange rate. That amounts to about 263 grand a day, about two thirds of what the President makes in a year.

Johnny & Al, yes, Prez in US does not make a lot of money during his tenure. However, USDs are not reasons for this job – it’s pure self indulgences of the highest level: you are the strongest man on earth and in our solar system. After the job, you make your weight in diamonds by giving speeches. Bill made tens of millions of dollars since “retirement”. Bush will not make that much he is not all that popular and not as good of speaker and speech writer.
back to the subject: johnny, you are right, Wendelin Wiedeking has supporting security staff who sweeps suites for bugs before, during and after intercourse. Therefore, security probably knew of device in advance, learned of the source of device by following transmission to the listening device and created embarrassment for the government of Lower Saxony. And yes, Wendelin had to sleep(screw) in another suite and it was discomforting. My point – governments are usually stupid and Krautz governments so far has been topping on this cake.