Porsche is synonymous with speed and tradition. His 911 is considered the best sports car of all time, and if we dig into the history books of motoring for achievements, it would be like hitting a golden vein. The history of motoring is imbued with the successes of this German car manufacturer, which grew out of a design bureau. Despite its reputation, we bet you don't know everything about it yet.
Porsche it is and still is writes history. He strives for his achievements like an athlete who splashes sweat, except that instead of salted drops, bits of rubber fly around in the Porsche. And yes, we all know the legendary 911, but that is far from all that this manufacturer gave to the roads from Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart.
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1. Ferdinand Porsche, the father of Porsche, is 1899 produced the first hybrid electric vehicle, which heard the name Lohner-Porsche "Semper Vivus". It was an electric vehicle with an internal combustion engine that served as a generator and was the first with brakes on all four wheels.
2. Ferdinand was one of the first to prove that they could smaller vehicles in races, faster than bigger and stronger, which he proved with the model Sasha, which was dwarfed by the competition, but still won 43 races, including the famous Targa Floria in 1922.
3. The first Volkswagen Beetle (The Beetle) was composed in the villa where Ferdinand lived.
4. Ferdinand designed what was once the fastest car in the world, futuristically designed Mercedes-Benz T80 (Type 80), which in 1939 was capable of 756 km/h.
5. Ferdinand also designed a car for Four-wheel drive Formula 1 namely the Porsche 360 Cisitalio s 385 horsepower, which, due to the client's lack of financial resources and a change in the rules in F1, never saw baptism in a race.
6. Horse placed on the back legs of a Porsche emblem is similar to the horse on the sign Ferrari. Which makes sense, since the horse is part coat of arms of Stuttgart, the birthplace of "Porsha", while the story of Ferrari's horse grew out of an anecdote about an Italian pilot who shot down an enemy plane over Stuttgart in World War I, and his mother told Enzo Ferrari to use him as talisman.
7. Two years is all 356 models assembled in a sawmill in Gmund, Austria. they were better and easier like his descendants, as the bodywork was from aluminum and not iron, as was the practice later, when production was moved to Germany.
8. Model 356 was once part of the fleet the Dutch police.
9. Most of Porsche's early bodywork was done at Recar, which is one of the leading manufacturers of car seats today.
10. One of the most famous Porsche models, Porsche 911, would almost get the name 901 and only Peugeot name system or titles (i.e. number-0-number, e.g. 205) we have to thank for the name that the whole world knows today.
11. When it is FIA in the mid-eighties "fired up" turbo engines, are with a 1.5 liter McLaren V6 with 1000 crows under the hood swept away by the competition, which, despite all the progress, would still only look back at this beast today.
12. Porsche racing cars have won around the world so far 24 thousand races.
13. Porsche was also once produced tractors and has an even more varied history in this field than Lamborghini. They also made a very special, gas station attendant and not a diesel adapted for those farmers who produce coffee, as the diesel fumes affected the final taste of this intoxicating drink.
14. Porsche also gives the world one of the best forklifts. Since the early 1980s, he has subscribed to design awards for forklift trucks Linde Material Handling.
15. Have you ever traveled with Airbus A300? Porsche designed the cockpit. The big advantages of this cabin were digital screens, which were much more practical than the then-dominant analog readouts.
16. Model 959 was the most technologically advanced race car of its generation, and it also won the race Paris Dakar, one of the toughest motoring tests in the world, if not the toughest.
17. In 1986 he was Porsche 944 the first car in the United States to have airbag also for the passenger as part of standard equipment.
18. Engines Harley Davidson they use Porsche engines in some of their models. He is one of those Harley V-Rod.
19. And one more filed for the end. He also made a Porsche barbecue namely X-Series 1, for which you must deduct (with a discount). 4860 euros. Because, why not. If the tires are sizzling under its hood, why not čevapčići and pleskavica.
