| Most auto connoisseurs consider the Porsche 64 | | | | the Alpine Rally in 1950 in it. Now nearly a hundred |
| which is also sometimes known as the VW | | | | years after its founder started designing automobiles, |
| Aerocoupe, Type 64 and Type 64K10 as being the | | | | Porsche is still popular, the result of offering a cure for |
| first automobile made by Porsche. It was | | | | a mid-life crisis similar to owning a Harley - Davidson |
| manufactured mainly from parts from the Model 64 | | | | motorcycle. Porsche's lineup now features four model |
| VW Beetle and that is where the model number | | | | lines: the incredibly sexy and popular Boxster, the |
| comes from. The Porsche 64's flat-four engine | | | | enduring 911 models, the relatively new Cayenne SUV, |
| produced fifty b.h.p. and gave the vehicle a top speed | | | | and the stunningly opulent Carrera GT, and if you can't |
| of 160 km/h. The body was designed by Porsche | | | | afford their cars, Porsche also offers watches, |
| Burro after wind tunnel tests made for the Type 114, a | | | | luggage, and tennis rackets bearing its name. The |
| V10 racer that never saw the light of day as a | | | | company is still controlled by descendants of the |
| production car. Dr. Porsche planned to enter the | | | | founding family and it has enlarged its area by offering |
| roadster in the 1939 Berlin to Rome race event. The | | | | consulting services to other industries not only on the |
| bodywork specialist company Reutter made three | | | | automotive industry but in furniture, construction, and |
| cars from shaped aluminum. Out of the three, one was | | | | engineering as well. Form its early years of operating in |
| totaled in the early years of World War II by a VW | | | | the red, Porsche has evolved into a winner as one of |
| bureaucrat. The two cars that remained were used by | | | | the most profitable car makers on the planet while |
| the exclusively by the Porsche family. Towards the | | | | many other automakers are having to lay off workers, |
| end of World War Two, they put one of the vehicles | | | | offer cash incentives, and strategize how to deal with |
| in storage and used the other one. American troops | | | | the upcoming Chinese market. Porsche consistently |
| discovered the one put in storage in May 1945, cut the | | | | releases startling new products and has quadrupled |
| top of it off and took it joyriding for a few weeks until | | | | annual vehicle sales in less than ten years in spite of |
| the engine went and it was junked. Farina restored the | | | | costs and the risks involved. The most recent additions |
| only remaining Porsche 64 in 1947, as it was owned | | | | of the Boxster and Cayenne are doing very well and |
| and driven by Ferry Porsche. In 1949, the Austrian | | | | continue to be examples of the popularity of Porsche |
| racer Otto Matte bought the car and raced it, winning | | | | as the company continues to move forward. |