The Porsche story is not unique (a family starts a successful business and achieves greatness) but what is unique is that more than 60 years later you can still experiencepurity and focus of the original cars. Everyone will have a favorite, mine is my 911, which handles and accelerates like few street legal cars made anywhere at any time. If you get the chance and are a fan, get yourself to Europe and visit some of the Porsche landmarkssuch as the first factory and museum in Gmund, Austria.
All I can say to people here is that they are unique in their own way. To me a car should not be raced because it's part of your you. I believe ALL cars shouldn't be pushed to the limit because it's part of your life. You practically go every where with your car. I feel sad when such beauty is thrown away with paint peelings and car damages. A car is what describes you. When you I see riced out Civics I see drivers who really have no passion on cars but have a need for speed.
Classic commercial. I have a 356A Speedster. I've had many modern cars, but there is something enduring about those older Porsches. It's a car that speaks the truth every time you start it. Even the new ones are pretty good.
I have '76 bone stock smogger 2.7L. I had some kid pull a few links on me in a Scion XD turbo the other day, . . a SCION.
Needless to say he had chipped it, overboosted it, black smoke from overrich mixture pouring out of his 50 hp coffee can exhaust (angel fire d o t com/nc2/mycoffeecan/page1.html), his little pop off valve screaming at every shift.
He was as proud as a dog with a bone. . until he learned it was a 40 y/o N/A smogger 2.7 w/ 250k miles! LOL
Hey flashvette, ditto on my chicago driven 84 928s...the build quality is unsurpassed...and agreed there are too many bench readers on these. i have a 911 too...put both cars together and you can really taste the porsche yin-yang excellence that came out of Ferry's reign
A timeless design is wasted if it can not survive. Creating something that time can not errode, something that ignores time or physically in concept is ultimate victory. Porsche builds these cars that will not rust away. They are here to stay for many years. My 83 928S is mint with no rust anywhere. Its spent its life in Massachussetts. And has been near the beach in Florida for the last 9 years. I love my Porsche. Great car manufacturer. Professor Porsche was a Genius.
Not a vintage commercial, just used black and white during Ferry's portion and a few clips to match the black and white vintage clips. Still very cool.
My favorite one is with the kid seeing a 911 drive by his school and then goes to the dealership.
Beautiful footage... I hope they never get rid of the 911 just because the GT-R beat them on Nurburgring... Lose the 911, and they lose half of their history. The thing is legendary. Winning not because of it's high power, but because of it's amazing corning ability. I think they should try to compete with Nissan with a different car at about the same price.. But never get rid of the 911. It's great that it still looks similar to the original 1964 911.
I have heard that Porsche is very skeptical of Nissan's claim with the GT-R running faster than the 997 Twin Turbo. The Nissan weigh's more than the Porsche 997 Twin Turbo and has less HP. Doesn't add up.. Porsche suspects the Nissan GT-R was run with special race only tires to achieve those times. I am not saying the GT-R is not a fast car because it obviously is a fast great car, but its still a Nissan!, Porsche is a fabled and storied automaker with much racing success.
Well, not everyone is lucky enough to have a Porsche and not evryone is smart enough to understand. Too many bench racers out there, they read a couple magazines and think that whats on paper is the whole truth.........Pity.........
@ray951s I own a 2010 911 GT3. I have no interest in the GTR (Nissan, I'm guessing by the discussion here.) If you have questions, I will tell you how I feel about the car. My only other 911 was a '75 911S, which had more "purity," but less exhilaration.
the first porsche was damaged when they transported it for a car festival. whoops but it was reparied. but how can clarkson say no passion look at that add, i mean italian cars have no pasion look at fiat and ferrari came a big faceless empire when enzo died and they beacame to selling for the fat rich man and lambogini is gone thanks to audi buying it porsche still remembers its past and the pasion to keep it to look like the first makes everything unique a ferri still dosent look the same.
Porsche #356/1 was damaged enroute to Monterey, CA in 1998. It was repaired. It was present at the Speedster 50th Anniversary in Carmel, CA in June of 2004.
I'd have to disagree about Ferrari and Lamborghini. They're both still making spectacular cars. One might argue that the Lambo engine in the Audi R8 brings a bit more elan to Audi, and Audi's reliability have made Lambos cars you can drive every day. Win/win.
yeah but porsche unfortanly has become a new face less empire as well. they dont try hard enough and now there pissed of becuase the skyline laped faster at nurnburg and this has shown them up. and he is anti 911 becuase of hamond. i rember seeing a review from old top gear with tiff neddel and he actul liked but eh
The Porsche story is not unique (a family starts a successful business and achieves greatness) but what is unique is that more than 60 years later you can still experiencepurity and focus of the original cars. Everyone will have a favorite, mine is my 911, which handles and accelerates like few street legal cars made anywhere at any time. If you get the chance and are a fan, get yourself to Europe and visit some of the Porsche landmarkssuch as the first factory and museum in Gmund, Austria.
pbutzi 1 year ago
makes me feel like I want a porsche XD... but I'd never trade it for my Z32 =P
smtbbo 1 year ago
All I can say to people here is that they are unique in their own way. To me a car should not be raced because it's part of your you. I believe ALL cars shouldn't be pushed to the limit because it's part of your life. You practically go every where with your car. I feel sad when such beauty is thrown away with paint peelings and car damages. A car is what describes you. When you I see riced out Civics I see drivers who really have no passion on cars but have a need for speed.
Subsw00fers 1 year ago
"it vill live on in all our cars"
jrboulder 1 year ago
brilliant
911myporsche 1 year ago
wow... it was sooo.... ugly
RavenNight2641 1 year ago
Porsche is the most unique marque in the world. The 356 & 911 cannot be copied.. no way.. They get better with age..
35sixer 1 year ago
Classic commercial. I have a 356A Speedster. I've had many modern cars, but there is something enduring about those older Porsches. It's a car that speaks the truth every time you start it. Even the new ones are pretty good.
jonw1794 1 year ago
I understand what Dr. Porsche says here. The sum is greater than the parts of any one Porsche.
cortesbugslayer 1 year ago
I'll tell you what a Porsche has that the Nissan doesn't?
Soul.
History.
Passion.
It's not about how quick a car laps the Nurgburgring. There is more to driving than that.
sydneyfc 1 year ago 2
@sydneyfc EXACTLY!
I have '76 bone stock smogger 2.7L. I had some kid pull a few links on me in a Scion XD turbo the other day, . . a SCION.
Needless to say he had chipped it, overboosted it, black smoke from overrich mixture pouring out of his 50 hp coffee can exhaust (angel fire d o t com/nc2/mycoffeecan/page1.html), his little pop off valve screaming at every shift.
He was as proud as a dog with a bone. . until he learned it was a 40 y/o N/A smogger 2.7 w/ 250k miles! LOL
ski2exs 1 year ago
Hey flashvette, ditto on my chicago driven 84 928s...the build quality is unsurpassed...and agreed there are too many bench readers on these. i have a 911 too...put both cars together and you can really taste the porsche yin-yang excellence that came out of Ferry's reign
derrittmeisterturbo 2 years ago
A timeless design is wasted if it can not survive. Creating something that time can not errode, something that ignores time or physically in concept is ultimate victory. Porsche builds these cars that will not rust away. They are here to stay for many years. My 83 928S is mint with no rust anywhere. Its spent its life in Massachussetts. And has been near the beach in Florida for the last 9 years. I love my Porsche. Great car manufacturer. Professor Porsche was a Genius.
Flashvette 2 years ago
@Flashvette
The cars do indeed rust away but for the dedication of its owner. That's the difference.
TheCorsican 2 years ago
that was a very beautiful speech
mofunzonecom 2 years ago
I love my 912 and even more love the heritage of the Porsche. Hope it will survive VW ambitions...
ViR2 2 years ago
man was a genius
rockofages89 2 years ago
Not a vintage commercial, just used black and white during Ferry's portion and a few clips to match the black and white vintage clips. Still very cool.
My favorite one is with the kid seeing a 911 drive by his school and then goes to the dealership.
hypaaktiv 2 years ago
Save Prof. Dr. Ferry !!
cezarscs 3 years ago 3
Beautiful footage... I hope they never get rid of the 911 just because the GT-R beat them on Nurburgring... Lose the 911, and they lose half of their history. The thing is legendary. Winning not because of it's high power, but because of it's amazing corning ability. I think they should try to compete with Nissan with a different car at about the same price.. But never get rid of the 911. It's great that it still looks similar to the original 1964 911.
Delorean911Turbo 3 years ago 3
they never wanted to give up the 911
sirtristan01 3 years ago
Hehe, now anymore... They did want to get rid of it in the 70s.
Delorean911Turbo 3 years ago
in the late 70s and early 80s the 911 should be replaced by the V8-powered-front-engine 928
thank god they kept the 911
p9893 2 years ago
I have heard that Porsche is very skeptical of Nissan's claim with the GT-R running faster than the 997 Twin Turbo. The Nissan weigh's more than the Porsche 997 Twin Turbo and has less HP. Doesn't add up.. Porsche suspects the Nissan GT-R was run with special race only tires to achieve those times. I am not saying the GT-R is not a fast car because it obviously is a fast great car, but its still a Nissan!, Porsche is a fabled and storied automaker with much racing success.
nls8520 2 years ago
it has there was nitrogen in the tires. nissian thinks that normal air isnt enough
mofunzonecom 2 years ago
No need to compare a 911 with a GTR, if you every had a Porsche, you would never rather have a GTR than a Porsche, no way.
ray951s 2 years ago 13
The sad thing is is that those who don't know how good a Porsche is end up going with the GTR because they don't know the Porsche driving experience.
Delorean911Turbo 2 years ago
Well, not everyone is lucky enough to have a Porsche and not evryone is smart enough to understand. Too many bench racers out there, they read a couple magazines and think that whats on paper is the whole truth.........Pity.........
ray951s 2 years ago
@ray951s I own a 2010 911 GT3. I have no interest in the GTR (Nissan, I'm guessing by the discussion here.) If you have questions, I will tell you how I feel about the car. My only other 911 was a '75 911S, which had more "purity," but less exhilaration.
cortesbugslayer 1 year ago
Nice.
rbellote 3 years ago
A+ excellent footage!
GTO3987 3 years ago
the first porsche was damaged when they transported it for a car festival. whoops but it was reparied. but how can clarkson say no passion look at that add, i mean italian cars have no pasion look at fiat and ferrari came a big faceless empire when enzo died and they beacame to selling for the fat rich man and lambogini is gone thanks to audi buying it porsche still remembers its past and the pasion to keep it to look like the first makes everything unique a ferri still dosent look the same.
Gummby69 3 years ago
Porsche #356/1 was damaged enroute to Monterey, CA in 1998. It was repaired. It was present at the Speedster 50th Anniversary in Carmel, CA in June of 2004.
I'd have to disagree about Ferrari and Lamborghini. They're both still making spectacular cars. One might argue that the Lambo engine in the Audi R8 brings a bit more elan to Audi, and Audi's reliability have made Lambos cars you can drive every day. Win/win.
csmarkham 3 years ago
Gummby69, Jeremy likes the 928 and the 944 turbo, he just doesn't feel the same about the 911.
AMITYVILLE8757 3 years ago 2
yeah but porsche unfortanly has become a new face less empire as well. they dont try hard enough and now there pissed of becuase the skyline laped faster at nurnburg and this has shown them up. and he is anti 911 becuase of hamond. i rember seeing a review from old top gear with tiff neddel and he actul liked but eh
Gummby69 3 years ago
Dr F Porsche- One of the greatest automobile engineers of the world.
liv2xlr8 3 years ago 19
Never heard his voice before. Even thought that was just Ferry, not his dad who is the real founder.
karatcha 4 years ago
whas ferry the one who startes the business, his father has a car engineering company...
search the story on the internet...
ferry is the real father of porsche cars...
stuntdriver007 4 years ago
words that make sense.. great, just great :)
Elentrax 4 years ago
It would have been nice if the actor even looked remotely like Dr. Porsche. =/
agarpiraat 4 years ago
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velocebooks 4 years ago
Thanks of the info. Could you post them on this site please? Then they would there for all to enjoy.
tronester 4 years ago
There's a 964 in there too, so it must be from 1989 at the earliest.
midnightluck 4 years ago
I liked what was said as much as I liked the cars. Please give me more!
tronester 4 years ago
nice
agent666781 4 years ago
it aint vintage and it gt VW's
riefny 4 years ago
i hate to have to tell you this. but this isn't that old. came out in the late 80s. I can tell by the 928 sliding down the street.
crmhere9 5 years ago
I love this vintage video.really nice.history
Vlady14 5 years ago