Complex sentence: Always thinking big, Piëch insisted on developing a 16-cylinder engine for the CanAm--it is propably no coincidence that his grandfather had developed a famous supercharged 16-cylinder for the Auto Union race cars in the 1930s.
Split into simpler sentences: Always thinking big, Piëch started development of a 16-cylinder engine for the CanAm series. It is propably no coincidence that his grandfather had developed a famous supercharged 16-cylinder engine for the Auto Union racing cars in the 1930s.