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Old 11-29-2021, 08:33 PM   #162
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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k View Post
Porsche was literally founded to sell sports cars that nobody else was making. All they wanted was to be able to stay afloat and sell sports cars. So what you're suggesting is far from "unlikely". Sadly that company is long ago dead and buried. Now they just chase sales.
Well, maybe, kinda, sorta.

Technically the first car designed by Ferdinand Porsche was the 1898 Egger-Lohner electric vehicle which was basically a motorized horse wagon.

Then several decades later when Porsche Motor Car company was founded, it was a design firm, not producing any cars. One of its first real cars was the Beetle, then tanks during WWII.

It wasn't until well after the War, and Ferdinand was released from prison without going to trial for war crimes, did he and his son build the 356 prototype.
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