Before Gamestop revolutionized the world of stonks, there was… Volkswagen. Over a decade before Reddit made GME a meme, one of the craziest short squeezes in history involved VW and Porsche. How did VW briefly become the most valuable company in the world? And how did it all go down in flames. On today’s episode of Past Gas, we’re trading in the short shifter for the short squeeze. It’s time to talk Volkswagen-- the GameStop of cars.
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Past Gas #204: Kei Cars: How a WWII Loophole Created Japan's Tiny Cars
Past Gas #203: Burt Munro: How a 70 Year-Old Built a Landspeed Record Bike in His Shed
Past Gas #202: Why We Think Lotus’s Founder Faked His Own Death
Past Gas #201: Spoon + Mugen: The Kings of Honda Tuning
Past Gas #200: 200th EPISODE SPECIAL: Fun Stories, 20lb Dogs, & Fan-Fiction
Past Gas #199: Travis Pastrana: The Human Action Figure
Past Gas #198: Miracle at the Nurburgring: The Story of the 1969 Argentinian Torinos
Past Gas # 197: The Eerie Parallel Deaths of Ferrari’s Father-Son Superstars
Past Gas # 196: Paris-Dakar Rally: The History of the Race Across the Sahara Desert
Past Gas #195: Jochen Rindt: The Driver Who Won an F1 Championship Posthumously
Past Gas #194: Holden vs Ford: The Birth of Australia’s V8 Supercars
Past Gas #193: Six Small Stories About BIG Automotive Heroes
Past Gas #192: Rat Fink: The Real Story Behind That Weird Hot Rod Art
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Past Gas #191: JGTC: Every Car You Like Came from This Japanese Racing Series
Past Gas #190: The Unsers: How ONE Family Kept Winning the Indy 500
Past Gas #189: Shelby Daytona Coupe: How Three Guys Beat Ferrari...Again
Past Gas #188: Willy T. Ribbs: The First Black Driver to Test a F1 Car
Past Gas #187: The Ferrari Curse Was Broken by an American
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