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Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel, Marion King Hubert, Burt Munro,Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yefgrafovich Petrov, Hans Ledwinka, It was with a heavy heart that I today struck the name Ferdinand Porsche from my list of heroes. I feel I have no choice but to take this drastic action upon my recent discovery that Porsche's brilliant design of the 1938 KDF wagen (precursor to the VW beetle) which weighed so heavily in his ascension to this coveted and prestigious posting was itself in fact a blatant and heinous act of plagiarism. Although the legal case was not settled until 1961 when Volkswagen was ordered to pay 3,000,000 DM in damages, design credit belongs to the above referenced Mr. Hans Ledwinka. An Austrian engineer in the employ of Czech automaker Tatra, Ledwinka was the principal designer of the Tatra T97, a vehicle bearing shocking resemblance to Porsche's early prototypes, complete with rear mounted air cooled flat four engine, suicide doors, and an almost identical front end complete with the iconic bug eyed headlights.