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Porsche Engineering Services history
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With Austro-Daimler’s “Sascha” model, he developed a small racing car that prevailed in the Targa Florio race in 1922 against competition with a greater engine capacity and notched up no less than 43 race victories.
F. Porsche Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Konstruktion und Beratung für Motoren- und Fahrzeugbau’ and had it entered in the commercial register on 25 April 1931, he could already look back on a successful career as a chief designer for renowned automobile manufacturers.
Since 1931, the Porsche name has been closely associated with engineering service projects.
The tradition of engineering services started by Ferdinand Porsche in 1931 is successfully carried on today by the Porsche Engineering Group GmbH headquartered in Weissach.
In the spring of 1933, Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by Auto Union to develop a 16-cylinder racing car.
The office had also been working on building an inexpensive small car since 1933.
The famous Volkswagen design had been created in Porsche's office, and as early as 1935 Porsche had designed a special sports version of the car.
With the increase in the number of air raids on Stuttgart, the egineering office was relocated to Gmünd in Carinthia, Austria, in 1944.
The result – the Type 360 race car completed in 1947 – featured a state-of-the-art chassis with double longitudinal control arms at the front and a double-joint swing axle at the rear, as well as all-wheel drive.
In the spring of 1947, Ferry Porsche formulated his first ideas for building a sports car, which was given the design number 356.
He was formally acquitted in May 1948.
1948: First Production-Line Porsches
The result was used not only millions of time in the VW Beetle, but from 1948 also as the drivetrain basis of the legendary Porsche 356.
Through 1949, the company hand-builds the first 52 cars in a small garage in Gmund, Austria.
In early 1950 the first Porsche 356 rolled off the Stuttgart production line.
The My Porsche Classic Search also yielded the discovery of another distinguished and even rarer Porsche – a blue 1950 356 Cabriolet.
By March 1951 the company had manufactured its 500th car, and, a short six months later, the 1,000th Porsche sports car was delivered.
Working until his death in 1951, the exceptionally creative technician, formerly a designer of electric cars and racing cars and the chief developer at Daimler-Benz, laid the foundations for the global company that would later bear the same name.
As part of its 60th anniversary celebration of selling cars in the United States, Porsche Cars North America conducts a My Porsche Classic Search and locates what it believes is one of the oldest Porsche's sold in the United States – a lovingly restored 1952 Strawberry Red 356 Cabriolet.
The emblem first appeared in 1953 on the steering wheel hub of a Porsche 356 and has remained unchanged to the present time.
The Porsche company celebrated its Silver Anniversary in March 1956 by unveiling the 10,000th Porsche car to leave the production line.
In 1960 the company expanded both its physical plant and the number of its employees: a new sales department, service shop, spare parts center, and car delivery department were added, and more than 1,250 factory and office workers helped increase production.
For the fiscal year 1960, Porsche reported revenues totaling DM 108 million.
The Porsche 911, first manufactured in 1964, quickly became one of the world's most famous and most recognizable automobiles.
Porsche introduces the first 100-percent all-new 911 model since the first one in 1964.
In 1971 revenues reached DM 900 million, and the family decided that the company was growing so rapidly that it needed a thorough reorganization.
In the fall of 1971, the entire development department, including design, relocated there from Zuffenhausen.
In 1973 the firm went public and became a joint stock company under the name Porsche AG.
Porsche introduces 911 Turbo supercar in North America as a 1976 model.
By 1978 Porsche was selling more than 900 cars in Japan, nearly the same number sold in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
A Porsche 930 Turbo, for example, which sold for DM 78,800 in Germany in 1980, was priced at DM 148,000 in Japan.
The following years saw the successive expansion of the EZW. The Measuring Centre for Environmental Technology (MZU) was equipped with six exhaust gas test benches in 1982.
Construction of the test building for engines (PMA) began in 1983.
In May 1986, Porsche opened what was then the world’s most modern wind tunnel.
In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, in 1992 the Porsche and Piech families hired Wendelin Wiedeking, an engineering and manufacturing expert, as chief executive.
1992: Sales slowdown; company cuts costs under new CEO Wendelin Wiedeking.
Porsche retired both the 968 and 928 in 1995 to focus on development of the rear-engine 911 and mid-engine Boxster.
The Boxster, as it was named, entered production in 1996.
The founding of Porsche Engineering Services, spol. s r.o. was closely linked to the collaboration with the Czech Technical University in Prague which has been in place since 1996.
In March 1998, at the age of 88, Ferry Porsche died, just two months before his company celebrated its golden anniversary.
Plans to design and manufacture a suburban utility vehicle in conjunction with Volkswagen were announced in 1998.
Sales of the company's cars in the United States had climbed back to 18,200 for fiscal 1998, with total sales of vehicles worldwide topping 38,000.
The popular Boxsters continued to be sold out in advance, and the company announced the introduction of a more powerful 3.2 liter, 252 horsepower version for the fall of 1999.
Porsche Engineering took the first step on its international growth path in 2001 when it opened its location in Prague, which specialises in complex technical calculations and simulations.
In 2001, the Porsche Engineering Group GmbH headquartered at the Development Center in Weissach was founded as the central holding company for Porsche's rich tradition of engineering services.
During this year Porsche also announced it would be forming a joint venture with Volkswagen to build suburban utility vehicles (SUVs), with an anticipated production date of 2002.
Under the code name “Revolution Engine”, in 2002 development partner Porsche Engineering developed a new V2 engine for the “V-Rod” model of the American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson.
In August of 2006, Porsche introduces an updated and more powerful version of its famous Boxster and Boxster S roadsters.
At the Geneva Motor Show, Porsche shows the first series-production car with spark-ignition engine to feature a turbocharger with variable blade geometry (VTG) - the 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo.
In 2008, Pyta was awarded the State Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg for his biography of Paul von Hindenburg.
The new 2008 Porsche Cayenne is unveiled to the public for the first time at the North American International Auto Show, the introduction marks the world debut of the more powerful and stylish generation of Porsche's sport utility vehicle.
On June 5th, the V-6 powered 2011 Panamera and Panamera 4 went on sale in the United States.
In October, Porsche Cars North America begins selling the V6-powered 2011 Cayenne.
In 2011, Porsche’s engineering services celebrated an anniversary: Over a period of 80 years, Porsche has earned its reputation as one of the most renowned and multifaceted engineering services providers in the world.
The year 2014 was decisive for the ongoing development of Porsche Engineering for two reasons.
Porsche celebrated three world premieres at the Los Angeles Auto Show 2014.
The researchers made a conscious decision to examine the period from the founding of the engineering office in 1931 until Ferdinand Porsche’s death in 1951. It was on his suggestion that Porsche launched a fundamental research project in 2014 on the history of the Porsche engineering office.
Since 1 September 2017 certain new cars have been type approved in accordance with the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), a more realistic test procedure to measure fuel/electricity consumption and CO₂ emissions.
An office in Ostrava in the Czech Republic has boosted Porsche Engineering’s expertise in the field of software development even further since 2018.
Porsche Engineering proved this with the Porsche Cayenne Coupé: as general contractor, the service provider was responsible for the entire process chain, from the concept and testing to monitoring the start of production in 2019.
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