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.

Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes.

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.

They are or were used in: the Volkswagen Beetle, some Porsche and Subaru cars, many BMW and Honda motorcycles, and aircraft engines ( for propeller driven aircraft ), etc.

To this day, no Porsche has ever used an EA827-based engine.

This design marked a major change in direction for Porsche ( started with the introduction of the Porsche 924 in 1976 ), whose cars had until then used only rear-or mid-mounted air-cooled flat engines with four or six cylinders.

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.

1952 Porsche 356 K / 9-1 Prototype In post-war Germany, parts were generally in short supply, so the 356 automobile used components from the Volkswagen Beetle, including its internal combustion engine, transmission, and suspension.

The two companies collaborated in 1969 to make the VW-Porsche 914 and 914-6, whereby the 914-6 had a Porsche engine, and the 914 had a Volkswagen engine, in 1976 with the Porsche 912E ( USA only ) and the Porsche 924, which used many Audi components, and was built at Audi's Neckarsulm factory.

The front-engine, rear wheel drive arrangement was normal for most other manufacturers, but it was unusual for Porsche having previously only used mid-or rear-mounted engines of a boxer configuration, all of which had been air-cooled.

In 1984 VW decided to stop manufacturing the engine blocks used in the 2. 0 924, leaving Porsche with a predicament.

1968 Porsche 912 Targa, used by the Korps landelijke politiediensten | Dutch police

Ferdinand Porsche used this setup in the early 20th century in racing cars, effectively inventing the series-hybrid arrangement.

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

This engine was an evolution of the Porsche flat-8 boxer engine and used identical cylinders to those found on the 908, but differed in that it used a V12 type crankshaft.

This inline engine configuration is the most common in cars with a displacement up to 2. 4 L. The usual " practical " limit of the displacement of inline-four engines in a car is around 2. 7 L. However, Porsche used a 3. 0 L four in its 944 S2 and 968 sports cars, the International Harvester Scout was available with a 3. 2 L inline four from 1965 until 1980 and Rolls-Royce produced several inline-four engines of 2, 838 cc with basic cylinder dimensions of diameter and stroke ( Rolls-Royce B40 ).

The car's designers had intended that the headlights could be retracted, with the lenses facing skyward when not in use ; a similar arrangement was used many years later on the Porsche 928.

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.

Similar to designs of European cars such as Porsche, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and others it used coil springs at all four wheels with independent rear suspension arms incorporated at the rear.

Journalist David E. Davis, in a 2009 article in Automobile Magazine, noted that despite Nader's claim that swing-axle rear suspension were dangerous, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen all used similar swing-axle concepts during that era.

As of June 2006, the Porsche AG stake in VW AG had risen to 25. 1 %, giving Porsche a blocking minority, whereby Porsche can veto large corporate decisions undertaken by VW AG.

In October 2008, Porsche announced its intent to raise its stake in Volkswagen AG to 75 % during 2009, and on 7 January 2009, Porsche's holding in VW AG was raised to 50. 76 %.

Porsche SE owned 50. 8 percent of Volkswagen Group as of 5 January 2009, and has said it plans to lift the stake to 75 percent before the end of 2009, at that level they could bring VW AG's cash onto Porsche's books.

At the time, Volkswagen lacked an internal research and design division, and Porsche was doing the bulk of the company's development work, per a deal that went back to the 1950s ; in keeping with this history, Porsche was contracted to develop a new sporting vehicle with the caveat that this vehicle must work with an existing VW / Audi I4 engine.

Erwin Komenda ( April 6, 1904-August 22, 1966 ) was a Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars.

The Porsche 64, also known as the VW Aerocoupe, Type 64 and Type 60K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from what was to become the Porsche company, as a true design precursor to the production model of after the war.

Powered by VW, Porsche or Alfa Romeo flat-4 engine.

Ledwinka's concept had been copied by Ferdinand Porsche, whose successors later had to acknowledge the influence of Ledwinka's sophisticated Tatra models on the Porsche-designed Kdf-Wagen of 1938 ( later renamed the VW Beetle ), a post-war lawsuit resulting in a DM3, 000, 000 settlement paid by Volkswagen to Ringhoffer-Tatra in 1961.

Glass-covered headlamps, used on e. g. the Jaguar E-Type, pre-1968 VW Beetle, 1965 Chrysler and Imperial models, Porsche 356, Citroën DS and Ferrari Daytona were no longer permitted and vehicles had to be imported with uncovered headlamps for the US market.

Most Phaeton engines, the W12 being the notable exception, are built at the VW / Porsche / Audi engine plant in Győr, Hungary.

It was followed by the Reva GT Mk1 powered with a VW 1200 engine and fitted with Porsche brakes.

Those models were joint venture projects of Porsche and VW, but Porsche did not have the internal capacity to build the 924 and 944.