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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the designer of the iconic Porsche 911 and architect of the Porsche design culture, passed away April 5 in Salzburg, aged 76.
Nowadays, Porsche is owned by the Volkswagen Group. Technically, it's correct to say that Porsche owns Volkswagen, but also ...
Italian designer joins Ferdinand Porsche's great-grandson and Jerry Seinfeld, owners of the only other two 993 Speedsters ever made, thanks to the Sonderwunsch custom program.
Ferdinand Porsche developed a gas-electric hybrid back in 1900 after working on a few pure-electrics. Just like today, the ...
Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in what is now the Czech Republic. Young Ferdinand was fascinated by engineering and electricity.
Piëch started working at Porsche just as it was about ready to launch the first Porsche 911. However, when Piëch saw the flat-six engine it was supposed to use, he had to speak up.
Though company founder Ferdinand Porsche reportedly established his engineering office in Stuttgart, Germany in 1931, he didn’t release his first vehicle, a hand-built aluminum prototype labeled ...
You may be wondering why I'm not referring to the first car created by Ferdinand Porsche—the eponymous founder of the company. Readers with good memories will remember a piece from 2020 looking ...
Way back in the 1920s, before Ferdinand Porsche became fascinated by rear-engine vehicles and flat-fours, he was the managing director of Austro-Daimler, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. One of the ...
The grandson of Ferdinand Porsche doesn't like the narrow road leading up to his new Austrian mansion, so he wants to bore a tunnel and build a 12-car garage underneath it.