Porsche 911 gt3
James Dean Porsche 550. James Dean was killed in this same Porsche 550 Spyder.
2010 Porsche Panamera V6
Porsche 918 Spyder
Porsche 996 Turbo.
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Porsche history
Porsche it was founded in 1931 by Dr. Ing Ferdinand Porsche, who was elected as the engineer of international century, created the Volkswagen Beetle and also has other projects connected to each other little known but very important in the history of the automobile, among which developed the first hybrid vehicle in 1901 which was studied by NASA years later to build a lunar vehicle. Located in Zuffenhausen, a district of Stuttgart, Porsche is known for its sport cars models, but keeping the features that make everyday use, such as reliability and durability of their equipment.
Recently, the Volkswagen Group became the largest shareholder in Porsche and Porsche the largest shareholder of the Volkswagen Group.
The global economic crisis has prevented this purpose, and aggravated the financial problems of Porsche, when your biggest market, the United States reduced by 50% the volume of imports of German sports cars.
Taking advantage of this vulnerable time in August 2009 VW bought 49% of the shares of Porsche AG, aiming to make a merger between the two manufacturers that iminiente, with the same expected for 2011.
With the participation of Qatar, an oil producing country in the Middle East, who repaid the debt of Porsche through the purchase of shares, Volksvagen won the arm wrestling, and the Stuttgart company will merge with Volkswagen group, which has these manufacturers within the group Audi, Seat, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Scania, MAN and of course Volkswagen.
