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Thursday, March 22, 2012

What Exactly Do You Comprehend About The Porsche Vehicle?

By Tyrone Fineberg


It's unlikely that you haven't heard of the Porsche automobile; you may even have enjoyed a ride in one, or just perhaps there's one of them parked in your driveway. But you are quite possibly unfamiliar with the history of Porsche. With the story of the Porsche automobile, it is hard to say what the true beginning was. In 1948 the world for the first time discovered a motor vehicle by the name of Porsche, and two years later, in 1950, the Porsche 356 was introduced in the United States by Max Hoffman. For the traditions and philosophy of Porsche to be understood, you will certainly need to go back to 1875, when a son was born in the house of a tinsmith in Haffersdorf, a Bohemian village.

He was named Ferdinand Porsche, and even though his technical genius wasn't thought to have the necessary discipline for the skills of engineering. He received part-time education as an engineering student in Vienna, for his only formal education, but at the age of 25, he became an automobile designer. He was a brilliant engineer, but headstong, as he became connected with all of the leading car manufacturers in Germany, at one time or another. A dozen of the most technically important cars of all time were designed by Porsche. The SSK line, produced with his aide while he worked for Mercedez-Benz, remains 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 V-12 engine, and the V-16, which were supercharged, were put together by them for the mid-engine Grand Prix racing cars. Auto racing on the European circuit ended up being dominated by them, in conjunction with the Mercedes-Benz racer, for a period of nearly ten years. For the period following that both Zundapp and NSU used the designs they were best known for. The rear-mounted engine, along with the branded torsion-bar suspension, were a small number of Porsche's prototypes. Given that the two companies didn't move on the designs fast enough for Porshe, he got the German government to buy the concept. The creation of his design eventually happened at Wolfsburg, in a manufacturing plant the building of which was supervised by Porsche. The entire world got to know it as the Volkswagen Beetle, but he described it simply as the Type 60 on his blueprints.

Now it is more than a 100 years later, and the Porsche engineering company has left its mark on the automobile industry. Automobile design and engineering have benefitted from the long lasting and exceptional contribution of the Porsche family.




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