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By Daysi Greener


You've most likely heard of the Porsche automobile, and perhaps you have even ridden in one or possibly own one. However you may not know the place the Porsche actually came from. With the account of the Porsche car, it is tough to say what the real beginning was. The first car to be called Porsche was released in 1948, and in 1950 Max Hoffman delivered the Porsche 356 to the United States. Yet, to achieve a full perception of the Porsche and its mystique, we have to return to the year 1875, which saw the birth of a son to the local tinsmith of Haffersdorp, a village in Bohemia.

That child was called Ferdinand Porsche, who firstly grew to be known as a man of technical genius but who was regarded as lacking the discipline required for engineering. He had part-time education as an engineering student in Vienna, for his only formalized education, but at the age of 25, he became an automobile designer. He was absolutely brilliant as an engineer, but his volatile temperament meant that he didn't stay with any employer and eventually he had worked for all the leading car makers in Germany. A dozen of the most technically important automobiles in history were designed by Porsche. The SSK series, produced with his aide while he worked for Mercedez-Benz, is still one of the most awe-inspiring ever.

Porsche launched an engineering consultation group, later known as Porsche AG, after having to leave Mercedes. He couldn't get along with their engineering policies, so he was dismissed. He established a group with a few engineers he cherry-picked, with a special interest in racing cars and sports cars. Their expertise were in high demand, with the high end sedan from Austria, the Steyr, being one of their projects. It never managed to get past the prototype phase. Auto Union, who later evolved into the present-day Audi, ended up being the first to develop cars that had front-wheel drive and were relatively cheap to own, and they also called on the skills of the Porsche consulting group.

The Grand Prix additionally benefited from the skills of the team, with the supercharged V12 and V16 engines for the mid-engine racing cars having been developed by them. Auto racing in the European circuit ended up being dominated by them, along with the Mercedes-Benz racer, for a period of nearly ten years. For a time following that, NSU and Zundapp each used their best-known designs. The rear-mounted engine, and the trademarked torsion-bar suspension, were a couple of Porsche's prototypes. Both organizations were not fast enough for Porsche in bringing the designs to the manufacturing stage, so the concept was sold by him to the German government. Porsche supervised the construction of a facility at Wolfsburg, where his design finally went into manufacture. His car was referred to as Type 60 in his sketches, and it came to be known as the Volkswagen Beetle.

Throughout the last 100 years or more the engineering company of Porsche has created a lasting impression on the car industry. There is certainly no doubt that Porsche and his relatives have left the auto design and engineering disciplines an admirable and lasting legacy.




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