25 Things You Didn’t Know About Porsche
 

Awsome and very interesting.
Tnx Dennis

This site has some very comprehensive and accurate historical information on the Porsche brand/lineage https://www.stuttcars.com/ very interesting stuff...

they also were the first with black windshield wipers and a padded dash...IIRC

Porsche forklifts? Wow! I'm getting my forklift operator license. :)

They left out the 996

Yeah, I noticed that too. The page is actually there, but they haven't got very far with it:

https://www.stuttcars.com/porsche-models/911/996/

I think (hope) they're working on it. I was there a few weeks ago and there was a link and if you clicked on it there was a message that said something to that effect. Now there's actually nothing...no mention at all. Seeing as the 996 is/was the transition to water cooled 911's, I would think it's too important a step in the evolution of Porsche's flagship and most recognizable model to omit.

# 26!!!!
Porsche was a member of the German Nazi party and the SS.

The Volkswagen plant was completed in 1938 after Italian labor was brought in. This workforce can be considered exploitative. Porsche joined the Nazi party on his own free will in 1937 . Volkswagen, under Ferdinand Porsche, profited from forced and slave labor. This would include a large number of Soviets. In the spring of 1945, 90% of Volkswagen’s workforce was non-German.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...o/CHRIS996.jpg

I have a Porsche Design chronograph from 1971. Love it!

Yeah but after getting the butt handed to them by the Allies, spending some time in jail, and the Allies passing on their technology, they were allowed to restart a business.