The history of Porsche can be traced back to 1900. Lohner-Porsche, the first car named after Porsche, was officially unveiled and caused a sensation. This two-seater sports car was designed by ferdinand porsche. At that time, the 25-year-old Porsche was hired as a designer by Lohner Automobile Factory. He showed outstanding talent here.
Porsche 1875 was born in Austria, and his father was a white blacksmith. Ferdinand likes to work as a blacksmith since he was a child, and he is also very interested in electricians. 65438-0890 began to develop electric Gome gasoline electric vehicles.
1906, Porsche was transferred to Daimler Austria as technical director. In the next ten years, he designed many epoch-making new cars, such as Daimler-Benz SS and SSK sports cars, as well as GrandPrix cars of automobile alliance, which were brilliant chapters of German automobile industry. 1923 was promoted to chief engineer of Daimler General Factory. Daimler and Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory merged at 1926 to become the current Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory.
During this period, Porsche suggested to Mercedes-Benz to produce a production car that everyone could afford, but it was rejected by the board of directors at that time. This forced the big Porsche to leave. 1931On March 6th, Porsche set up a design company in Stuttgart with the help of several investors to develop engines for cars, planes and ships. Porsche ferry (ferry
Porsche also joined the design team at the age of 24. Later, the father and son began to work on the development plan of the public. Little known is that the wishes of the Porsche father and son actually coincide with Adolf Hitler. Hitler also specially summoned Porsche to discuss this matter. In World War II, he also designed a tiger tank for Hitler that shocked the European battlefield. Because of his relationship with German Nazis, he was arrested by Americans after World War II and later handed over to France. He spent two years in prison and was released in August 1947.
1935, the prototype of the company was born, which was later the "Beetle" of the public. Today, the improved version of "Beetle" is still in production, which is one of the largest production and sales models in the world. In 1930s, Big Porsche also designed three high-performance racing cars for AutoUnion, the predecessor of Audi, and was also considered as the predecessor of Porsche sports cars. [1] 1946, after World War II, the design company of Porsche moved to Austria, and little Porsche and its sister Louise Piech formally joined the management team. Louise became the daughter-in-law of the Pi He family, and since then, the two families have been closely linked.
With the help of a pair of sons and daughters, Big Porsche started the research and development of Porsche cars on the basis of "Beetle". Because both father and son have an unspeakable passion for performance, the first Porsche they developed was naturally a sports car famous for its performance, that is, the Porsche 356 from 1948. Like the future Porsche sports car, the 356 has a light body, low drag coefficient, flexible handling performance and an air-cooled engine. These characteristics make it unique. Porsche died on 195 1 after realizing his dream of building a sports car.
After his father's death, little Porsche immediately shouldered the heavy responsibility of management. 1963,911,the most important model in Porsche history, was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show. In order to maintain and improve the quality of Porsche, in 197 1 year, Porsche built a modern R&D center and a large-scale testing ground in Weissach near the general factory.
Although the quality of Porsche is obvious to all, it suffered the most serious business crisis in the history of the factory in the mid-1980 s, and its automobile output dropped by half. After that, it slashed its price and laid off a third of its staff before it stabilized its position.
It was not until 1993 that the Boxster concept car came out that Porsche's way of life was revealed. This small roadster was launched in 1996, which caused a buying craze all over the world. Porsche's legacy: the launch of a Volkswagen sports car with good quality and low price was finally realized more than 40 years after his death. 1998, Porsche pursued the victory and released a brand-new 91/convertible at the Geneva Motor Show.
Although the Porsche factory is currently run by professional managers, the Porsche family still owns most of the shares in the factory. According to statistics, the total assets owned by the family are as high as 5 billion marks.