When Ferdinand Porsche founded his company in 1931, not many could have imagined that it would flourish, and cars of this brand would be considered elitist. The main shareholders of the company are the descendants of Ferdinand Porsche, which is probably why the price and quality of products remain at their best. Germany, as a country producing Porsche, makes a considerable profit from taxes levied on the company. Moreover, it is Porshe - the most highly profitable car company in the world. Eight years ago, cars of this brand were called the most reliable.
At dawn
The country of origin of Porsche is Germany, and the company’s founder, at the time of opening his business, had already gained considerable experience in the production of automobiles in his native country, which allowed him to immediately set a pretty high bar. Prior to Porsche, he founded in 1931 another business called Dr. Ing. hc F. Porsche GmbH. Under this name, he worked on projects such as Auto Union, a six-cylinder racing car, and Volkswagen Kafer, which in the future received the title of best-selling car in history. After eight years of practice, Ferdinand developed the company's first car, the Porsche 64, which became the forerunner of all future Porsche cars.
However, production stalled due to the outbreak of World War II. For its country, the manufacturer Porsche began to produce various military products - staff cars and amphibians. Ferdinand Porsche also took part in projects to develop the super-heavy Mouse tank and the Tiger R heavy tank.
Porsche Dynasty
In December 1945, Ferdinand Porsche was imprisoned for twenty months, he was charged with war crimes. His son Ferdinand (Ferry) took his father’s business into his own hands and decided to produce his own cars, and also changed the geographical position of the company. The country-manufacturer of Porsche cars remained the same, only they began to be collected not in Stuttgart, whose coat of arms was used in the company logo, but in Gmünde. It was Ferry Porsche, having gathered familiar engineers, who created the prototype “Porsche 365” with an open aluminum body, and then began to prepare it for production on stream. In 1948, cars successfully passed certification for public roads. Again, as in the case of the previous car, Porsche Jr were used components from the Volkswagen Kafer, including the gearbox, suspension and air-cooled four-cylinder engine. However, the first production cars had a fundamental difference: the engine was moved to the rear axle, which not only reduced the cost of production, but also freed up space, so there was enough space for two more passenger seats. The body designed by the engineers was distinguished by high aerodynamics.
Back to Stuttgart
When production returned to Stuttgart again, the changes were not long in coming. Aluminum was abandoned in production, returning to steel production. The plant began to produce coupes, convertibles and motors with a volume of 1100 cubes and a capacity of 40 liters. from. The expansion of the assortment followed quite quickly: as early as 1954, six car models were sold. Engineers constantly worked on improving the design of cars, increasing the power and volume of engines, adding various components, such as a synchronized gearbox and disc brakes for all wheels.
Auto racing
The founder of the Porsche company, apparently, was interested in a lot of racing sports, because the company began to take an active part in racing since its inception. As soon as the prototype of the first model was assembled, they immediately decided to "test" it on the race track. A few weeks later, this car won the race in Innsbruck, bringing glory not only to the company itself, but also to the manufacturing country of Porsche. In 1951, there was another significant victory at the Le Mans races, in which another car was already participating - a slightly redesigned production Porsche 356 with an aluminum body. At Porsche 911, victory was won at Targa Florio, Carrera Panamericana, Millet Milla and many others. There were also victories in the rally, for example, the famous Paris-Dakar marathon, cars won twice. In general, the Porsche brand has about twenty-eight thousand victories!
Nowadays
Porsche has come a long way. Which manufacturing country, besides Germany, can boast that in their city a small family-owned company has turned into the most profitable automobile company in the world?
One of the most unusual cars coming off the Porsche assembly line is the Cayenne. The history of its creation began in 1998, when the Porsche engineers worked together with colleagues from Volkswagen. The world saw the Cayenne in 2002.
Despite the many models that the Porsche company has produced in the past and is now producing, the best-selling car is the Porsche Cayenne. The country of manufacture of it, like the rest of the cars of this brand, of course, Germany. This is a sports SUV, in many ways similar to the Volkswagen Tuareg. To produce an SUV, a separate new plant was built in Leipzig. It is unlikely that anyone expected the experimental car to become the brand's most sought-after car, although the reaction to this SUV with a very mixed design was controversial.
"Diesel scandal"
Not so long ago, the manufacturing country of Porsche demanded the company to withdraw about twenty-two thousand cars sold because of the so-called "diesel scandal." It turned out that the present indicators of harmful emissions into the atmosphere of diesel engines of the brand were much higher than what was stated. Porsche engineers themselves claim that this was due to a malfunction in the software used to measure emissions from the tests. Such a problem, apparently, arose for three more brands: BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz. True, only Porsche's manufacturing country demanded to withdraw the cars, the rest of the companies did it themselves.
The “diesel scandal” probably influenced the fact that the engineers released the new “Cayenne” only in the version with a gasoline engine, while the two previous generations also had a diesel engine, which many liked. It is the diesel version of this car that has the greatest demand in our country. The Porsche manufacturer says: there will be a diesel engine, but when and which one is a mystery.
Instead of a conclusion
To summarize.
- Who releases Porsche? The country of origin is Germany, and the release is at the factories of the same automobile company. Huge now, she grew up from a small family business.
- Cars of this brand are intended not only for defile on perfect asphalt. Many of them regularly bring victories in races, including in marathons, such as “Paris - Dakar”.
- The brand's best-selling car is the Porsche Cayenne. The country of manufacture of this car is also Germany. This is an SUV with an original design, the cousin of the Volkswagen Tuareg.
- Porsche is the most profitable car company in the world.