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3 unusual facts about Ferdinand Porsche


Klemm

This aircraft, of which more than 100 were built, was powered by a 20 hp (15 kW) Daimler engine designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Radschlepper Ost

In 1941 Ferdinand Porsche prepared design of four-wheel drive tractor, distinguished by large diameter (1500 mm) steel cleated wheels.

Zell am See-Süd

The Prof. Ferdinand Porsche-Street, and the Gletschermoosstreet was joined in the spring of 2008 with a new roadway.


Alexander Kolowrat

An enthusiastic mobilist he financed the development of a lightweight sports car ("Sascha-Wagen") designed by the Austro-Daimler engineer Ferdinand Porsche, which ran at the 1922 Targa Florio with Alfred Neubauer at the wheel.

Alfa Romeo Pomigliano d'Arco Plant

In 1967 was started the design of the plant and the new car model (the ' Alfasud ), both under the technical responsibility by engineer Rudolf Hruska, one of the most important engineers of the era, former "right hand" of Ferdinand Porsche and consultant to Fiat, Simca and Abarth.

Cisitalia

Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned to design and construct a full Grand Prix car which led to the innovative but complex Cisitalia 360.

Daimler-Benz DB 603

The Mercedes-Benz T80 land speed record car, designed by aircraft engineer Josef Mickl with assistance from Ferdinand Porsche and top German Grand Prix racing driver Hans Stuck, incorporated the third prototype DB 603.

Porsche 114

After designing the Volkswagen for the German government's KDF program Ferdinand Porsche considered building a sports car version of the VW.

Volkswagen Kübelwagen

Although Adolf Hitler discussed with Ferdinand Porsche the possibility of military application of the Volkswagen as early as April 1934, it was not until January 1938 that high-ranking Third Reich army officials formally approached Porsche about designing an inexpensive, light-weight military transport vehicle that could be operated reliably both on- and off-road in even the most extreme conditions.


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Austro-Daimler Sascha

The car was named by Ferdinand Porsche after Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky, a friend who had encouraged him greatly to build a small, lightweight sports car.