“The ‘Beetle’, the 356 and the 911 Brought World Fame to a Stuttgart District
1958 Ferry Porsche in the assembly hall in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen in front of the model series of the 356 AIt was on June 26, 1938 that Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche KG, as the enterprise was then called, moved from Kronenstrasse 24 in the center of Stuttgart to newly-built premises in the district of Zuffenhausen. In May 1937, Ferry Porsche had already acquired a site there at the address Spitalwaldstrasse 2 (as it then was), thus determining the location of the later Porsche factory. 70 years on, the building newly completed in 1938 still forms a central part of the factory complex in Zuffenhausen. Continue reading ‘The heart of Porsche has been beating in Zuffenhausen for 70 years now’
911 Pedal Cars for Children
What we would give to be a kid again!
Each collected their own ‘Model 911’ pedal car from the museumBeaming faces in Zuffenhausen: today four children, aged five and six, each collected their own ‘Model 911’ pedal car from the museum of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. They were the lucky winners of a raffle which had taken place at the ‘Bietigheim Wonderland’, an event held in Bietigheim on May 30 and 31, 2008. Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, did not miss the opportunity to greet the young guests himself and hand them their prizes in person: ‘I am very pleased to meet such young Porsche enthusiasts and I hope you will have a lot of enjoyment driving your own little 911s’, said the Chairman, congratulating the children. Continue reading ‘Raffle Winners visit the Porsche Museum’
The sportiest cabriolets and sports cars come from Zuffenhausen
Porsche AG has once again landed an important public prize for its premium sports cars. Readers of the well-known monthly magazine ‘sport auto‘ have voted two Porsche models as the sportiest cars: yesterday evening, the Porsche Boxster S was named as the best cabriolet in the up to € 80,000 EUR price category and the Porsche 911 GT2 as the best supersports car. The specialist ‘sport auto‘ magazine has been holding this reader vote on the subject of ‘The sportiest cars’ since 1980. Porsche has been the repeated winner of this public prize for 28 years, focusing on driving dynamics and sportiness. Continue reading ‘Double win for Porsche in reader vote for ‘sport auto’ magazine’
Third time in a row. Highest levels of customer satisfaction maintained.
Vehicles from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG continue to successfully meet the very highest quality standards in the USA, the largest export market for the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer. This is the conclusion reached by US market research institute J.D. Power in its latest ‘Initial Quality Study’ opinion poll, which was published today. Porsche secured first place for the third time in a row in the prestigious brand ranking – considerably ahead of the luxury Nissan brand, Inifiniti, and followed by Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota. 81,500 buyers of new cars were interviewed for the study. Continue reading ‘J.D. Power quality study – Porsche comes out on top’
