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Porsche
Vehicle Manufacturer
Manufacturer of sports cars and a sports SUV started in 1939 and based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Model names used by Porsche throughout its history include: #1,
356,
356SL,
356 Speedster,
356B,
356C,
550,
908/2,
908/3,
911,
911 Carrera,
911 GT1,
911 Targa, 914,
917,
917K,
917LH,
918 Spyder,
919 Hybrid,
924,
928,
930,
935,
936,
944,
956,
959,
960,
962,
Boxster,
Carrera GT,
Cayenne,
Cayman,
Macan, Panamera,
Taycan,
Type 542, and
WSC-95.
Dealerships include:
Jim Ellis Porsche (Atlanta, Georgia)
Porsche of Greenville (Greenville, South Carolina)
History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Porsche page on 21 November 2015, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche AG, is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans. Porsche AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, and is owned by Volkswagen AG, which is itself majority-owned by Porsche Automobil Holding SE. Porsche's current lineup includes the 911, Boxster, Cayman, Panamera, Cayenne, Macan, and the 918.
History: Origin
Austrian engineer Ferdinand Porsche founded the company called "Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH" in Austria in 1931, then moved to its main offices at Kronenstraße 24 in the centre of Stuttgart. Initially, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but did not build any cars under its own name. One of the first assignments the new company received was from the German government to design a car for the people, that is a "Volkswagen". This resulted in the Volkswagen Beetle, one of the most successful car designs of all time. The Porsche 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle.
During World War II, Volkswagen production turned to the military version of the Volkswagen Beetle, the Kübelwagen, 52,000 produced, and Schwimmwagen, 15,584 produced. Porsche produced several designs for heavy tanks during the war, losing out to Henschel & Son in both contracts that ultimately led to the Tiger I and the Tiger II. However, not all this work was wasted, as the chassis Porsche designed for the Tiger I was used as the base for the Elefant tank destroyer. Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes.
At the end of World War II in 1945, the Volkswagen factory at KdF-Stadt fell to the British. Ferdinand lost his position as Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen, and Ivan Hirst, a British Army Major, was put in charge of the factory (in Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen company magazine dubbed him "The British Major who saved Volkswagen"). On 15 December of that year, Ferdinand was arrested for war crimes, but not tried. During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car, because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy. He also had to steer the company through some of its most difficult days until his father's release in August 1947. The first models of what was to become the 356 were built in a small sawmill in Gmünd, Austria. The prototype car was shown to German auto dealers, and when pre-orders reached a set threshold, production (with Aluminium body) was begun by Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH founded by Ferry and Louise. Many regard the 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the fledgling company along with Porsche 360. After the production of 356 was taken over by the father's Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche GmbH in Stuttgart in 1950, Porsche commissioned a Zuffenhausen-based company, Reutter Karosserie, which had previously collaborated with the firm on Volkswagen Beetle prototypes, to produce the 356's steel body. In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant (Werk 2) across the street from Reutter Karosserie; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse. The 356 was road certified in 1948.
Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of the Free People's State of Württemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital (the same arms were used by Württemberg-Hohenzollern from 1945-1952, while Stuttgart during these years was the capital of adjacent Württemberg-Baden). The arms of Stuttgart was placed in the middle as an inescutcheon, since the cars were made in Stuttgart. The heraldic symbols were combined with the texts "Porsche" and "Stuttgart", which shows that it is not a coat of arms since heraldic achievements never spell out the name of the armiger nor the armigers home town in the shield.
Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern became part of the present land of Baden-Württemberg in 1952 after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949, and the old design of the arms of Württemberg now only lives on in the Porsche logo. On 30 January 1951, not long before the creation of Baden-Württemberg, Ferdinand Porsche died from complications following a stroke.
Timeline
1900 Lohner-Porsche electric car built
1948 First Porsche sports car built, the #1
1951 Porsche's first victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans
1953 550 debuts
1955 Porsche logo designed
1961 911 body designed
1966 911 Targa debuts
1969 914 debuts
1981 AWD 911 concept debuts at Frankfurt Auto Show
1996 Boxster debuts
2002 Cayenne debuts
Reference Desk
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2003  Book | Porsche Legends by Randy Leffingwell; Motorbooks International |
Multimedia
| Date | Media or Collection Name & Details | Files |
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| 4 April 2012 | Porsche Luxury Cars Parks First Dealership in Nigeria
Ricci Shryock, VOA News | 
Article Page - 1.4MB - 3:10 |
| 17 December 2013 | Porsche 911 Turbo, 911 Carrera 4S, Cayenne GTS and Panamera Hybrid Walk Around
Matt Hubbard for Speedmonkey | 
Article Page - 10.4MB - 2:23 |
Photographs
Documents
Article Index
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 24 July 2003 | LaCie and F.A. Porsche Announce New Line of Designer Drives | LaCie |
| 4 September 2003 | LaCie Delivers New Dual-Format Drives by World-Famous Porsche Design. | LaCie |
| 4 September 2003 | LaCie Races Ahead with New Line of Hard Drives, Design by F.A. Porsche. | LaCie |
| 15 November 2003 | GRUPOUNO DRIVES AWAY WITH PORSCHE ACCOUNT | GrupoUno |
| 14 Feburary 2006 | The Porsche® tradition of quality Performance | Chris Casarez |
| 18 November 2006 | Christian Wulff will Einfluss von Porsche auf VW zurückdrängen  | Wikinews |
| 20 November 2006 | Jüttner fordert Rückzug Wulffs aus dem VW-Aufsichtsrat | Wikinews |
| 24 March 2007 | Porsche will seine Anteile bei VW auf über 30 Prozent aufstocken | Wikinews |
| 8 May 2007 | VW Investors Turn Down Porsche's Low-Ball Offer | Anthony Fontanelle |
| 12 May 2007 | VW-Führungsgremien empfehlen den Aktionären die Ablehnung des Porsche-Übernahmeangebots | Wikinews |
| 24 October 2007 | Фольксваген может перейти под контроль Порше  | Викиновости |
| 14 March 2008 | Porsche kämpft mit dem Land Niedersachsen um Einfluss bei VW | Wikinews |
| 7 May 2009 | Porsche and Volkswagen automakers agree to merger | Wikinews |
| 19 May 2009 | Porsche Trip to Beetle Land, The | Ronnie Tanner |
| 19 June 2009 | Porsche automaker's global sales drop 28%  | Wikinews |
| 24 July 2009 | Porsche-Übernahme durch die Volkswagen AG perfekt – Wiedeking tritt zurück | Wikinews |
| 27 July 2009 | VW plant milliardenschwere Kapitalerhöhung zur Finanzierung der Porsche-Übernahme | Wikinews |
| 27 July 2009 | Wiedeking und Porsche gehen getrennte Wege | Wikinews |
| 30 August 2009 | Porsche - The beginning | Jorge Reis |
| 12 March 2011 | Why Have A Proper Porshe Service | Andy Jones |
| 4 April 2012 | Porsche Luxury Cars Parks First Dealership in Nigeria | Ricci Shryock, VOA News |
| 5 July 2012 | German Carmaker Volkswagen Set To Takeover Porsche | VOA Breaking News |
| 5 July 2012 | VW buys Porsche for £3.6bn  | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 6 July 2012 | Volkswagen покупает Porsche | Викиновости |
| 9 November 2012 | New compact sports car from Porsche? | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 28 December 2012 | Classic Porsche cutaway drawings | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 4 April 2013 | Mark Webber to race for Porsche at Le Mans in 2014? | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 10 April 2013 | Porsche looking at 4-cylinder engines and a new entry level sportscar | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 13 April 2013 | Gypsy camp springs up next door to Porsche GB Headquarters | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 14 April 2013 | Mark Webber to race at Le Mans with Porsche on 5 year contract? The latest news | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 8 May 2013 | Porsches to race in Martini colours again | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 12 June 2013 | A day at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone  | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 12 June 2013 | This is the 2014 Porsche LMP1 prototype race car | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 27 June 2013 | Mark Webber to drive for Porsche in LMP1 from 2014 and beyond | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 2 July 2013 | Porsche flat-6 engine 50 year history mega-gallery | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 30 July 2013 | 200 classic barn-find Porsches to be auctioned | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 28 August 2013 | 200 Porsche barn find collection - 90% sold at the first auction | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 9 October 2013 | Porsche Expect To Profit From New Models | Geoff Maxted, DriveWrite Automotive |
| 11 October 2013 | Porsche sales continue to rise and the Cayenne continues to outsell all other models | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 31 October 2013 | Porsche profit, revenue and delivery figures for 2013 | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 10 November 2013 | Porsche To Showcase New Models - At Two Shows | Geoff Maxted, DriveWrite Automotive |
| 28 November 2013 | New Porsche 928? No. Sometimes The Press gets It Wrong | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 19 December 2013 | A Mega Day With Porsche - Photos And Videos | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 28 December 2013 | A Plethora Of Porsches - Quite An Experience 2 | Geoff Maxted, DriveWrite Automotive |
| 11 March 2014 | Geneva Motor Show - Porsche 919, 911 Targa And Macan | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 30 August 2014 | Nissan (& Mitsubishi) vs. Porsche | Bill Crittenden |
| 1 December 2014 | I May End Up Owning Three Old Porsches After A Drunk eBay Session | Matt Hubbard, Speedmonkey |
| 14 June 2015 | Porsche volvió a la victoria en las 24 Horas de Le Mans después de 17 años  | Wikinoticias |
| 30 November 2015 | No Charge for Shipping on Porsche Accessories and Parts from Braman Auto Parts | Braman Auto Parts |
| 30 December 2015 | Fourth Annual Festivals of Speed and Amelia Island Select Auctions Return to the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort-Porsche to Be Featured Marque | Festivals of Speed |
| 20 January 2016 | Fourth Annual Festivals of Speed and Amelia Island Select Auctions return to the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort; Porsche to be featured marque | Festivals of Speed |
| 23 May 2016 | Certain Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Components Thereof, Institution of Investigation | Federal Register: ITC (Lisa R. Barton) |
| 19 June 2016 | Porsche logra su victoria número 18 en las 24 Horas de Le Mans | Wikinoticias |
| 20 July 2016 | Top Ten Real Estate Deals News: Porsche Sky Car Condos Open Soon | Top Ten Real Estate Deals |
| 27 October 2016 | KLA Industries, LLC Announces New Air/Oil Separator Diaphragm for Porsche V8 Engines | KLA Industries, LLC |
| 7 June 2017 | KLA Industries, LLC Announces New Power Steering Seal Kits | KLA Industries, LLC |
| 2 April 2019 | Former Salesman of Porsche Dealership Charged in $2.2 Million Fraud Scheme Involving Non-Existent Rare Porsche Models | U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida |
| 16 September 2019 | Former Salesman of Porsche Dealership Pleads Guilty to Over $3 Million Fraud Scheme Involving Non-Existent Rare Porsche Models | U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida |
| 18 November 2020 | Porsche Design Acer Book RS Now Available in the United States at Acer Store | Acer America |
| 6 September 2023 | Porsche Cars North America, Inc., Grant of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance
Porsche Cars North America, Inc. has determined that certain model year 2017-2021 Porsche Panamera, 2019-2021 Porsche Cayenne, and 2020-2021 Porsche Taycan motor vehicles do not fully comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 135, Light Vehicle Brake Systems. | Federal Register Notice  (text)
Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Byline: Otto G. Matheke III
Topic: Porsche |
