Louise Piëch Archives

Ferry Porsche and the Birth of the Sports Car Company

The Moment Before Porsche Became Porsche By the closing months of 1947, the Porsche name had already traveled farther—and carried more weight—than most automobile companies would achieve across an entire lifetime. It had appeared on electrical patents, engineering drawings, racing machines, consulting agreements, government contracts, military vehicles, invoices, and the...

Porsche

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...

Austro-Daimler

Austro-Daimler and the Making of Ferdinand Porsche

1924 Targa Florio and shows Alfred Neubauer at the wheel with Ferdinand Porsche standing at the right side of the car.

When Ferdinand Porsche left Ludwig Lohner’s world in 1906, he did not leave behind the engineering instinct that had defined his earliest work. The electric wheel-hub motors, the Lohner-Porsche, the Semper Vivus, and the Mixte had already revealed something fundamental about him. Porsche did not think of the automobile as...

Book Reviews

50 Years Porsche 914

50 Years Porsche 914 by Jürgen Lewandowski, published by Delius Klasing Verlag – © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale Whether you love it or hate it, the 914 served as a very important family member in the Porsche model line-up of the day. To appreciate this fully, you need to understand the...

Turbocharging the 911

1974 Porsche 911 Turbo #1 chassis no. 911 560 0042. First owned by the late Louise Piëch (older sister of Ferry Porsche), the car is now on display in the Porsche Museum In 1973, the Porsche 911, by now a decade old, was ready for a make-over. The 3-litre engine...

Notable Chassis

Martini Porsche 917-042 – Le Mans record breaker

#21 Martini Porsche 917 LH (chassis #042) was driven by Gerard Larrousse and Vic Elford in the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hour race – DNF, lost engine cooling fan From 1964 through to 1969, Porsche lifted its game from being a class winner to setting international lap speed and endurance...