{"id":360,"date":"2008-06-09T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-06-10T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:15:25","slug":"the-first-porsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/360","title":{"rendered":"The first Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" title=\"The first Porsche motor car\" alt=\"The first Porsche motor car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/porsche.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ferry Porsche wanted the car of his dreams. The problem was it didn&#8217;t exist. So in 1948 he decided to build it himself.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Porsche 356 on Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porsche_356\">Porsche 356<\/a> (shown above) was the company&#8217;s first  production automobile and it remains my favorite Porsche. The prototype was hand built by Dr Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche themselves &#8211; the entire aluminum body hand beaten over a wooden buck and all the engine and drive train components made without a machine shop. The 356 was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive car, its mechanicals (including engine, suspension and chassis) derived from the Volkswagen Beetle which Ferdinand Porsche senior had designed.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche did for a while suffer a bit of an image problem, thanks to it being the marque of choice for divorcee middle age crisis males, braying city-types in the 1980s (not exclusive or expensive enough for them now ) and professional footballers (now moved on to Bentleys), but by eschewing design by committee and remaining small and independent, Porsche cars remain iconic examples of design driven by function rather than prevailing trends.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I do think the Cayenne is so wrong&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>More <a title=\"Porsche - Independence of Spirit\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.porsche.co.uk\/independence\">here<\/a> on Porsche&#8217;s independence of spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferry Porsche wanted the car of his dreams. The problem was it didn&#8217;t exist. So in 1948 he decided to build it himself. The Porsche 356 (shown above) was the company&#8217;s first production automobile and it remains my favorite Porsche. The prototype was hand built by Dr Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche themselves &#8211; the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}