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.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

Apart from brake wear in the Porsche and the decision not to change pads so close to the race end, the winning combination was relaxed driving by both GT40 drivers and heroic efforts at the right time by ( at that time Le Mans ' rookie ) Ickx, who won Le Mans five times more in later years.

In the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race, Peter Revson and McQueen ( driving with a cast on his left foot from a motorcycle accident two weeks before ) won with a Porsche 908 / 02 in the 3 litre class and missed winning overall by 23 seconds to Mario Andretti / Ignazio Giunti / Nino Vaccarella in a 5 litre Ferrari 512S.

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Jacky Ickx / Gijs van Lennep won, driving a Porsche 936

** teammates Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell won, driving a Porsche 936

* 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Laurent Aïello / Allan McNish / Stéphane Ortelli driving a Porsche 911 GT – 1

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Michele Alboreto / Stefan Johansson / Tom Kristensen won, driving a TWR – Porsche

* 24 hours of Le Mans – Yannick Dalmas / Hurley Haywood / Mauro Baldi won, driving a Porsche 962LM

* 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Derek Bell / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert driving a Porsche 962C

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Derek Bell / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert won, driving a Porsche 962C

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Klaus Ludwig / Paolo Barilla / " John Winter " ( Louis Krages ) won, driving a Porsche 956

** the team of Klaus Ludwig / Henri Pescarolo won, driving a Porsche 956

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Vern Schuppan / Al Holbert / Hurley Haywood won, driving a Porsche 956

** won by the team of Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell driving a Porsche 956

Henin won her next tournament, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, defeating Tatiana Golovin in the final.

During the 1970s, Martini became famous in connection with Porsche in motorsport, sponsoring the works Porsche 917 that won the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.

After a one-year hiatus in 1972, as Porsche retired from the WC championship as its 917, Martini and Porsche renewed their ties in the 1973 season, sponsoring the 911 Carrera RS that won the Targa Florio in surprise.

The Martini Porsche cars won Le Mans once more in 1976 and 1977 with Porsche 936, as well as in many other events in the 1970s for the factory Porsche team, with the RSR Turbo, 935 and 936.

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.

The Porsche 918 RSR won the EyesOn Design " Excellence in Design Award " for concept vehicles debuted at the Detroit show and the 2011 Audi A6 received the award for production vehicles.