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Porsche Cayenne :Armored Car by Red Jacket

April 23, 2012 by porsche Leave a Comment

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Armored car: The Red Jacket crew shows off the firing power of this armored car – Porsche Cayenne!
 

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Driving Porsche 911 GTS and looking for perfect Porsche photos :The Perfect Shot

April 10, 2012 by porsche Leave a Comment

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The Perfect Shot and Perfect Porsche photos: JF Musial meets up with good friend and professional automotive photographer Marc Urbano to find the perfect shot while driving the Porsche 911 GTS in the Colorado Rockies. Did they get perfect Porsche photos? Watch video below and look out!

 

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Tribute – Porsche 911 design father Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander)

April 10, 2012 by porsche Leave a Comment

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Tribute – Porsche 911 design father Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander): In Memory of Ferdinand Porsche Alexander “Butzi”. (1935-2012) Your Designs will live in our hearts, Forever. Video footage courtesy Porsche, AG

 

 

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Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander) – The father of the Porsche 911

April 7, 2012 by porsche Leave a Comment

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This video celebrates the amazing creations of Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander) – the Porsche 911 and Porsche 904.

Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander), designer of the legendary Porsche 911, died April 5. 2012 – 76 years old.

 

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Ferdinand Porsche – creator of the Porsche 911 Design dies

April 6, 2012 by porsche Leave a Comment

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Ferdinand Porsche – creator of the Porsche 911 Design dies

Ferdinand Alexander PorscheStuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is mourning
Professor Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander). The Honorary President of the Supervisory Board died on 5 April 2012 in Salzburg, aged 76. Matthias Müller, President and Chief Executive Officer of Porsche AG, paid tribute to Ferdinand Porsche’s services to the sports car manufacturer: “We mourn the death of our partner, Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander). As the creator of the Porsche 911 design, he established a design culture in our company that has shaped our sports cars to this very day. His philosophy of good design is a legacy to us that we will honour for all time.”

Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander) (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), nicknamed “Butzi”, son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911 design

 

Ferdinand Alexander PorscheFerdinand Porsche (Alexander) was born in Stuttgart on 11 December 1935, the oldest son of Dorothea and Ferry Porsche. Even his childhood was shaped by cars, and he spent much of his time in the engineering offices and development workshops of his grandfather Ferdinand Porsche. In 1943 the family accompanied the Porsche company’s move to Austria, where he went to school in Zell am See. After returning to Stuttgart in 1950, he attended the private Waldorf school. After leaving school, he enrolled at the prestigious Ulm School of Design.

In 1958, F.A. Porsche, as he was known by his colleagues, joined the engineering office of what was then Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche KG. He soon proved his great talent for design by sculpting the first model of a

successor to the 356 model line out of plasticine. In 1962 he took over as head of the Porsche design studio, creating a worldwide furore one year later with the Porsche 901 (or 911). With the Porsche 911, F.A. Porsche created a sports car icon whose timeless and classical form survives to this very day in what is now the seventh Porsche 911 generation. However, in addition to passenger cars, F.A. Porsche also concerned himself with designing the sports cars of the 1960s. His best-known designs include the Type 804 Formula One racing car or the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, now considered to be one of the most beautiful racing cars ever.

Ferdinand Alexander PorscheIn the course of the conversion of Porsche KG into a joint-stock corporation in 1971/72, Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander), along with all the other family members, stood down from the company’s front-line business operations. In 1972 he founded the “Porsche Design Studio” in Stuttgart, the head office of which was relocated to Zell am See in Austria in 1974. In the decades that followed, he designed numerous classic gentlemen’s accessories such as watches, spectacles and writing implements that achieved global recognition under the “Porsche Design” brand. In parallel, with his team, he designed a plethora of industrial products, household appliances and consumer durables for internationally renowned clients under the brand “Design by F.A. Porsche”. A strong and clear design concept typifies all product designs created in his design studio to date. The credo of his design work was: “Design must be functio

nal and functionality has to be translated visually into aesthetics, without gags that have to be explained first.” F.A. Porsche: “A coherently designed product requires no adornment; it should be enhanced by its form alone.” The design’s appearance should be readily comprehensible and not detract from the product and its function. His conviction was: “Good design should be honest.”

Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander) received numerous honours and awards both for his work as a designer as well as for individual designs. For example, in 1968 the “Comité Internationale de Promotion et de Prestige” honoured him for the outstanding aesthetic design of the Porsche 911 while the Industrial Forum Design Hannover (iF) voted him “Prizewinner of the Year” in 1992. In 1999, the President of Austria bestowed on him the title of Professor.

Ferdinand Alexander PorscheFerdinand Porsche (Alexander) retained a close lifelong association with Porsche AG as a partner and member of the Supervisory Board. For example, even after stepping down from front-line business operations, he contributed to the design of Porsche’s sports cars over many decades and repeatedly steered the company in the right direction. This was especially the case for the difficult period Porsche experienced at the beginning of the 1990s. From 1990 to 1993, F.A. Porsche served as President of the company’s Supervisory Board, thus playing a major role in Porsche A.G’s economic turnaround. In 2005, he stood down from his Supervisory Board role in favour of his son Oliver and assumed the mantle of Honorary President of the Supervisory Board.

Ferdinand Porsche (Alexander) will be buried in the family grave at Schüttgut in Zell am See, attended by his immediate family. An official funeral service will be held in Stuttgart at a later date.

[source: porsche.com]

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