10 Things You'll Find Inside the Porsche Warehouse

1. Porsche Bonanza

In a location with as many amazing cars as these, it's difficult to know where to start your trek. With both street and race vehicles side by side, you can track the evolution of Porsche tweak by tweak and tune by tune. The floor is made up of clashing tile and concrete, opaque windows line the walls and an exposed fire system looms overhead. There are around 518 vehicles at one time, calling the warehouse home at the controlled private facility. 

2. Porsche Nova

Porsche made motorcycles are right there inside the warehouse along with the race cars. This is the Nova that Porsche developed for Harley-Davidson back in the 1980's, which went onto be a great motorcycle for the brand under the moniker V-Rod. 

3. Porsche Galore

For the collectors to drool over there are also models that have never been owned, are unmolested and completely original. These cars are a mix of test vehicles, auto show queens, and time attack Le Mans or Nürburgring vehicles. You could spend a whole day just lifting up the covers on these cars and marvelling at them one by one. 

4. Racing Cars

There are a plethora of racing cars found in the warehouse in order to run in races or in demonstrations globally. Although, a few are kept at the racing department in Weissach at the Porsche Racing Development Center. The kicker is that almost every car here is still driveable, as cars come and go from the inventory of their own volition to go to exhibitions and races around the world. 

5. Display Pieces

This fully mated transmission, engine and suspension system look just ready to be put onto a chassis. This is most likely a piece of a display for Porsche that was used at an auto show to give attendees a glimpse at the underpinnings of a vehicle. 

6. Ill-Fated Protoypes

Some prototypes didn't make it to production simply because they were never meant to. It could have been an element of the car that would go on to live in another car while the rest of the prototype would live out its life in the warehouse. 

7. The Longer 911

What you see before you is an early four-seat "long-wheelbase" 911 that didn't make it to the fully realized concept phase. This would've been a more spacious 2+2 that could have expanded the market for those who would like to have a 911 with a bit of cargo room to shuttle people of shorter stature or be the 911 for grocery runs. 

8. Panamera Precursor

This prototype, which will not see the light of day, was an early attempt at a sedan with a sleeker coupe-like design. It was based on a 911 and was sculpted by famed design house Pininfarina. There are actually a good number of studies of four-door cars with a 911 body to them where Porsche was toying with a sedan. It wasn't until the Panamera that the powers that be felt that they had hit the mark. 

9. 911s Everywhere

There is every variant of the 911 represented here including the 964 Speedster and 997 Gt3 RS 4.0. Housed here are also a collection of super rare 959s that were the top of the motoring world when they arrived on the scene back in the mid-1980's. 

10. Volkswagen Beetles

These are early Volkswagen beetles, who are cousins to the Porsche, and were designed by the founder Ferdinand Porsche himself. 

Unfortunately, this warehouse will never be open to the public, but if you are able to take a trip to the Porsche museum in Germany, then you can at least get to see a bit of the inventory that was previously held in the storage location.  

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