Porsche

A man who believed power meant nothing without balance. That is where Porsche starts. Ferdinand Porsche spent years designing cars for other people. He was the kind of engineer who could look at a machine and see exactly where it was wasting energy. By the 1930s, he had already designed the Volkswagen Beetle, the car that would later put millions of Germans on wheels. But Ferdinand had his own ideas about what a car should feel like. He opened an engineering office in Stuttgart in 1931. It was not a car company yet. Just a workshop where he and his team designed things for other manufacturers. Engines. Suspensions. Whole vehicles. Then the war came. Ferdinand worked on military projects. After the war, French authorities arrested him and held him for months. The company's future hung in the ai... More