Founded by Ferdinand Porsche, the first car to bear the now famous Porsche name was the 356; then just one month later this light mid-engined sports car wins its class victory at Innsbruck Stadtrennen. Exciting beginnings for an exciting marquee! Despite the credit crunch this year, Porsche has just celebrated it�s most successful financial year in its history with pre-tax profits of 8.5 billion Euros. Porsche is obviously most famous for its sports coupes such as the Boxter, Cayman and iconic 911. However Porsche�s foray into the SUV market with the Cayenne is equally important and has played a large part in the recent financial success. Porsche is a small manufacturer when compared to giants like Ford or GM, never the less, this small company is shocked many industry experts this year by buying a controlling interest in the Volkswagen group. Porsche is bucking the general automotive trend of downsizing and actually expanding its interests. Porsche offers a generous 4 year / 50,000 miles warranty on all its new vehicles and has a reputation for building cars that last. The Porsche 911 was famous for being a supercar that could be used for the daily commute for years on end without major problems, when other high performance supercars of the time were renowned for being �temperamental�.
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