The crash also showed that the track's distances were too long for regular fire engines and ambulances, even though the " ONS-Staffel " was equipped with a Porsche 911 rescue car, marked ( R ).

Porsche also may have feared that the U. S. government would soon ban the sale of rear-engined cars in response to the consumer concern over safety problems with the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair.

This model is also sometimes referred to as the " Ferry Porsche Edition " because his signature was embroidered into the front seats.

Porsche Engineering Group also helped Harley-Davidson design the Revolution 60-degree v-twin water-cooled engine and gearbox that is used in their V-Rod motorcycle.

With 12. 8 percent of the Porsche voting shares, he also remains the second largest individual shareholder of Porsche AG after his cousin, F. A. Porsche, ( 13. 6 percent ).

The company has always had a close relationship with, initially, the Volkswagen ( VW ) marque, and later, the Volkswagen Group ( which also owns Audi AG ), because the first Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Porsche 944s were also built there, although they used far fewer Volkswagen components.

Ferdinand Piëch and his cousin, Wolfgang Porsche, also seemed to be on a collision course.

Volkswagen will initially take a 49. 9 percent stake in Porsche AG by the end of 2009, and it will also see the family shareholders selling the automobile trading business of Porsche Holding Salzburg to Volkswagen AG.

In the late 2009 VW ( which also owns Audi ) bought the controlling rights to Porsche.

Porsche also decided to re-introduce the 924 to the American market with an initial price tag of under $ 20, 000.

Jeff May was also one of the founding members of Porsche Club Great Britain.

In addition, Porsche installed manually adjustable lightweight Recaro racing seats rather than the standard power-operated leather buckets ( also manufactured by Recaro ), a revised suspension system optimized and lowered by 20 mm for possible track use, 17-inch wheels ( also slightly wider to accommodate wider tyres ) rather than the 16-inch as found on the Coupe and wider tires, 225 front and 255 rears rather than 205 and 245 respectively.

The 968 was also the last Porsche sold with a four-cylinder engine ( Final year 1995 ).

To bring 912 pricing close to the 356, Porsche also deleted some features standard on the 911.

In January 1968, Porsche also made available a Targa ' Version II ' option (' hard window Targa ') with fixed glass rear window, transforming the Targa into a coupe with removable roof.

Sold to the public for street use, the Porsche 912 has also proven successful as a race car, from production years to current vintage events.

Valmet Automotive also manufactured Boxsters under contract to Porsche at a facility in Uusikaupunki, Finland.

Paul was also associated with Bill Freeman ’ s established Porsche racing team which allowed both Paul and Bill to compete in S. C. C. A.

The American Le Mans Series also runs a " GT-Challenge " class, which currently only uses Porsche 911 GT3 Cups but will open to other cars next year.

The combustion chambers were developed in collaboration with Porsche.

Project C, which has come to be known as the Lada 2116 or Lada Silhouette, is a family car jointly developed with input from both Porsche and Renault, is intended to finally replace the Classic models.

The Lada Samara was partly developed by Porsche in 1984.

The Porsche 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle.

In 1931, Ferdinand Porsche developed the Porsche Type 12, or " Auto für Jedermann " ( car for everybody ) for Zündapp.

Its platform was developed by Porsche and is shared with the Volkswagen Touareg and the Audi Q7.

In 1900, Ferdinand Porsche developed a series-hybrid using two motor-in-wheel-hub arrangements with a combustion generator set providing the electric power, setting two speed records.

In 1934 he joined the Porsche construction office and developed the air-cooled opposed four-cylinder engine for the Volkswagen basing his design on Kales ’ s opposed four-cylinder engine for the NSU prototype.

The 695 was developed from the Porsche 356 by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and has a wheelbase that is longer ( up to longer in early designs ).

Initially fitted with a 4-cylinder engine, the car was later fitted with an enlarged flat-8 air-cooled engine from the Porsche 804 Formula One car which was developed to produce.

To take advantage of the lighter wheels and F1 tyres, the Porsche 910 was developed and entered in mid-season of 1966, starting with the hillclimb from Sierre to Crans-Montana in Switzerland.

It was therefore decided that the Porsche chassis were to be used as the basis of a new heavy tank destroyer, mounting Krupp's newly developed 88 mm Pak 43 / 2 anti-tank gun.

It was introduced in the 1984 Paris Motor Show as the first car developed by SEAT as an independent company, though it was designed by SEAT S. A. in collaboration with well-known firms such as Italdesign, Karmann and Porsche.

The gearbox and powertrain was developed in collaboration with Porsche, thus named under licence System Porsche.

Ferdinand " Ferry " Porsche, who was running the company at the time, handed development of the vehicle over to Ernst Fuhrmann, who adapted the turbo-technology originally developed for the 917 / 30 CAN-AM car to the 3. 0 litre flat-six from the Carrera RS 3. 0, creating what Porsche internally dubbed as 930.

The Touareg ( internally designated Typ 7L ) was a joint venture project developed by Volkswagen Group, Audi, and Porsche.

The modern cone system was developed by Porsche and introduced in the 1952 Porsche 356 ; cone synchronisers were called Porsche-type for many years after this.

It is named after the town of Weissach, where the research centre of Porsche is located and the axle was developed.

Audi also debuted their new tiptronic automatic transmission on the B5 platform, based on the unit Porsche developed for their 964-generation 911.

The Maus was designed from the start to use the " electric transmission " design which Ferdinand Porsche had used in his unsuccessful attempt to win the production contract for the Tiger.

Porsche's tank prototype, the " Porsche Tiger ", that lost to Henschel & Son's Tiger I.

Elefant | Panzerjäger Tiger, after the loss of the contract to the Tiger I Porsche recycled his design into a tank destroyer.

However, not all this work was wasted, as the chassis Porsche designed for the Tiger I was used as the base for the Elefant tank destroyer.

One Porsche version had a gasoline-electric hybrid power system ; two separate drive trains in parallel, one per side of the tank, each consisting of a hybrid drive train ; gasoline engine – electric generator – electric motor – drive sprocket.

The Porsche suspension were later used on a few of the later Jagdtiger tank hunters.

If the 800 series is a kind of human Panzer tank, then the 1000 series had to be a Porsche.

The design up to then had been the culmination of work done by Porsche who had won the contract for the heavy tank that March.

Porsche AG had manufactured about one hundred chassis for their proposal of the Tiger tank, the unsuccessful " Porsche Tiger ", in the Nibelungenwerk factory in Sankt Valentin, Austria.

Since the competing Henschel Tiger design was chosen for production, the Porsche chassis were no longer required for the Tiger tank project.

The engines had already been placed in the middle of the hull to accommodate the Krupp-designed turret that both the Porsche and Henschel contenders used for the initial Tiger tank contract, and that placement for the Porsche-designed contender gave room on the Ferdinand for the anti-tank main gun armament at the rear.

On May 26, 1941 Hitler ordered the Henschel and Porsche firms to design a new heavy tank.

Many of the Porsche chassis were converted into tank destroyers, known as Elefant.

The Germans were so excited by the initial StuG success that they turned to folly by producing the near useless Elefant " StuG " on obsolescent Porsche tank hulls ( the Porsche had been beaten out by the Henschel Tiger I, using the same Krupp-designed turret as the Porsche hull design, for heavy tank production ).