was founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, also famous for having designed the famous Volkswagen, or the people's car (from the German Volk = people = s fusion element Wagen = car), built by Hitler during the Nazi era and in the time known as the Beetle.
The son of Ferdinand Porsche, Ferdinand Anton, universally known by his nickname Ferry, collaborated closely with his father, carrying on the business and creating, in 1948, the first real Porsche model 356. The mechanics of the car was taken, in the scheme, ie setting the Volkswagen four-cylinder boxer engine, air cooled, placed in longitudinal position rear overhang, ie the piece over the rear axle and the gearbox to the interior.
When Ferry's father, Ferdinand, died (in 1951), the Porsche won its first class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1953 he saw the light of the 550 Spyder, a boat specially designed for racing with a four cylinder boxer engine of 1498 cc and 110 horsepower, with a specific output of 73.4 horsepower per liter, not insignificant for an of that period.
The arrangement of the engine in this case was that mid-engine with the crankcase to the passenger compartment in the rear axle, and the change to the outside. This arrangement gave a more stable power unit and was subsequently applied to standard models (914, Boxster and Carrera GT).
The strength of 550 was extremely light because, in various versions, accusing weigh from 480 to 590 kg. The frame was tubular aluminum body.
In 1963, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Ferry's son, created the 911, another sports car with six-cylinder boxer engine, air cooled, who attended some of the Monte Carlo rally winning twice. In the design phase, the car should have been called 901, but soon had to be changed as a result of the fact that Peugeot had already patented and registered all the figures with the zero in the middle for his cars. And that was linked to the fact that the hole formed by the zero should be inserted for turning the crank. Even for the 911 was available kept the traditional rear overhang of the engine which was maintained in all series that followed, while the air cooling was abandoned with the 911 series 996 of 1999, for the first time, was equipped with liquid cooling.
In the mid-'80s the 959 was produced which, surprisingly, won the Paris-Dakar. Born in the 90 new models of the 911 series, in various versions Carrera, Turbo, Convertible and series 993 and 996.
In 1996 he produced the Boxster, with 6-cylinder boxer engine, water cooled and positioned centrally pure, ie not to rush, but immediately behind the seats and inside the rear axle. This type of power unit location to the model gave an exceptional road holding, even higher than the 911. From Boxster then derived the Cayman sedan with a 3.4 liter engine and a power of 295 horses.
went into production in 2002, the Cayenne, which is the first SUV in the house, created in collaboration with Volkswagen. Lapenultima drive home was created by the Cayman, a mid-engined coupe based Boxster.L 'last car created
called Panamera.
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