The first Porsche was built on the 8th of June 1948. Today the Porsche brand is one of the best-known cars in the world and they are among the most prized sports cars in the world. The car was built by the Austrian engineer Ferdinand Porsche who had been working on the car for many years. The engineer had earlier been arrested for war crimes by the French and had just recently been released from jail. Porsche had been employed by the Nazis during WW II.
In 1931 Porsche had found his own company. He had regularly been employed by the Nazis. He had helped to design the early Volkswagen’s, and is well known as the designer of the famous Volkswagen Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche also designed tanks for the German army during the war.
and industrialist. This money allowed him to help his family and to get his father out of jail. While he was working on the car he also began working on a car that he had long dreamt of building. He built a new sports car that would actually have the Porsche name. the car that Porsche build was the Type 356. The new car was much influenced by earlier Porsche-designed race cars such as the Cisitalia, from the 1930’s. The Porsche design was truly revolutionary.
growing demand for the fast and powerful cars that were built by Porsche. Over the next twenty years, the company would build more than 78,000 sports cars and they were sold worldwide.The Porsche 365 was to be the first of many Porsche care to be build. Today, the 365 is seen as a classic car and the surviving models are regularly sold for millions of dollars.