Jonathan joined Rolls-Royce and Bentley from Nissan in 1998 as the Systems Principal Engineer for Chassis. At about the same time, VW Group had begun the development of the two competing luxury saloon car projects under Dr Ferdinand Piech’s direction: the D1 programme that became the VW Phaeton, with its steel body structure, and the D3 programme that became the second-generation Audi A8,
