Porsche at Daimler, the War, and the Road to Independence

A Name Without a Car

On April 25, 1931, the Porsche name officially entered the automobile business.

It did not enter as a badge affixed to the hood of a sports car. There was no factory assembling Porsche automobiles, no dealer network waiting to receive them, and no production line preparing to transform Ferdinand Porsche’s ideas into a recognizable family of road machines. There was not yet a Porsche automobile at all.