Check Out These 10 Amazing Porsche Facts
We know Porsche is a producer of high-performance sports cars and most of you never knew it also makes … bongs… I bet you’d be also interested to know other Porsche facts collected here.
1. Porsche is owned by Volkswagen.
Do not worry, it is in a good company of Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi and Ducati.
2. Porsche makes 19 versions of the same car.
Porsche 911 was first presented at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show.
3. The first Porsche was an electric car.
The car was designed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1898 to be named P1
(full name is ‘Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model’).
4. Porsche company started from motor development and consulting services.
Porsche started to produce cars only a decade after its foundation.
5. Prof. Ferdinand Porsche chauffeured royal prince of Hungary and Bohemia Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a Lohner-Porsche in 1902.
Ferdinand Porsche lived a bright life, was a driver for prince, served in the imperial army in 1902.
6. Early versions of the 911 were referred to as Porsche 901s.
Under the pressure of Peugeot whose naming system also had
three-digit numbers with a zero in the middle, Porsche had to change the
901s to the 911s.
7. Porsche did not build SUVs until the 2003.
The first one built by Porsche was Porsche Cayenne. Combining
luxurious styling and recognition of the brand, it was actually doomed
for success.
8. Porsche drew out the design of the famous Porsche crest in 1952 on a napkin.
The brilliant design came to his mind while he was eating with Max Hoffman in a NY restaurant.
9. Porsche logo is actually inspired by the Coat of Arms of
Stuttgart, at one time the capital of the Free People’s State of
Württemberg.
The horse symbolizes the origin of Stuttgart as it was founded in the place of a stud farm.
18. The first American citizen to win a Formula One Championship
victory at a U.S. track while driving a Porsche was Dan Gurney in 1961.
Dan was a race car constructor himself and he owned his own team.
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