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Apr 2, 2014 · Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche car company in 1931. In the early 1920s, he oversaw the development of the Mercedes compressor car and later developed the first designs of the...
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Jakob Lohner had begun construction of automobiles in 1896 under Ludwig Lohner in the trans- Danubian suburb of Floridsdorf. Their first design — unveiled in Vienna, Austria, on 26 June 1898 — was the Egger–Lohner vehicle (also referred to as the C.2 Phaeton).
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Volkswagen Group – a company whose relationship with Porsche goes back to the 1930s, when Ferdinand A. Porsche was the lead engineer on the Beetle project for the VW – owns 75 per cent of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (the full title of the Porsche company in charge of vehicle manufacture).
Apr 2, 2024 · Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer who designed the popular Volkswagen car. Porsche became general director of the Austro-Daimler Company in 1916 and moved to the Daimler Company in Stuttgart in 1923. He left in 1931 and formed his own firm to design sports cars and racing cars.
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Mar 28, 1998 · Ferdinand Porsche Jr., who helped his father develop the Volkswagen Beetle before World War II and later founded the sports car firm that bears his name, died Friday at age 88.
The history of the Porsche automobile brand began in 1948 with the Type 356, but the groundwork for the company was laid in the design office of Professor Ferdinand Porsche. The first order book in 1930 recorded the start-up phase of a legend in the making.
Apr 25, 2012 · When Ferdinand Porsche established his company on April 25, 1931, it's unlikely he envisioned world-renowned cars such as the 911 GT3 RS and Cayman R would wear a badge with his name on it....
