BS Fuji's Porsche Special

Yesterday, I saw this program on BS Fuji.."Evolution and challenge, a beacon for sports cars."

Porsche. The official company name is Ferdinand Porsche Honorary Doctor of Engineering Ltd.
In other words, Porsche is an engineering company. Where did Porsche come from and where is it going after more than 60 years of creating sports cars?
To find out, essayist Yataro Matsuura set out on a journey.
＊Evolution and Challenge, The Road Map of Sports Cars"｜BS FujiExcerpted from

It was a pretty good program.

In the program.Ferdinand Porsche built the very first electric car 120 years ago.It's almost identical in structure to the current plug-in hybrids."I was surprised to learn that

Porsche is always making cars with an eye toward creating cars that will be viable 20 or 30 years into the future. Of course, they are not unaware of the existence of rivals, but they are not following "other manufacturers have done it this way, so we will do it this way."This is what a Porsche should be."It is cool to know that they are building cars in accordance with their belief that

The mobile vehicle is a Panamera.

In the program, essayist Matsuura-san used to moveNew Panamera 4E Hybrid in whiteIt was. It was so cool, and as a Panamera fan, I thought it was "It's like this alone was worth watching this show already.". At the end of the program, in a small town in the Austrian mountains called GmündPorsche Automuseum Helmut Pfeifhoferwere introduced.

*Image taken from the Porsche Automuseum Helmut Pfeifhofer website.

Less well known is that between 1944 and 1950, Porsche was in the process of evacuating its factory from World War II for the purpose ofA factory was built in Gmünd, Austria, to produce cars.The director, who is over 80 years old, was a big Porsche fan, knowing about the time when Porsche was producing cars in Gmünd.(He's not an ordinary fan to build a museum. And he must be rich.)

Its director said.

When I first bought and drove a used Porsche as a teenager, I had a feeling that words can't really express. It was as if I became one with the car."

And. Porsche, about 70 years ago, also realized the joy of driving as the driver and the car became one, and it is still the same today, or if anything, continues to evolve. It is truly amazing.

The Porsche fans in the program were genuine Porsche fans who owned one of only a few dozen Porsches in the world or one from the air-cooled engine era, and I was embarrassed to say that someone like me should not profess to be a Porsche fan.

I need to learn more and more about Porsche. I want to go to the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart one more time.