Porsche Badge Charcoal Metallic
by John Straton
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Porsche Badge Charcoal Metallic
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John Straton
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Dr.-Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche AG (German pronunciation: [ˈpɔʁʃə] ( listen)), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans. Porsche AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, and is owned by Volkswagen AG, which is itself majority-owned by Porsche Automobil Holding SE. Porsche's current lineup includes the 911, Boxster, Cayman, Panamera, Cayenne and the Macan.
Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of the Free People's State of W�rttemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital (the same arms were used by W�rttemberg-Hohenzollern from 1945-1952, while Stuttgart during these years was the capital of adjacent W�rttemberg-Baden). The arms of Stuttgart was placed in the middle as an inescutcheon, since the cars were made in Stuttgart. The heraldic symbols were combined with the texts "Porsche" and "Stuttgart", which shows that it is not a coat of arms since heraldic achievements never spell out the name of the armiger nor the armigers home town in the shield.
W�rttemberg-Baden and W�rttemberg-Hohenzollern became part of the present land of Baden-W�rttemberg in 1952 after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949, and the old design of the arms of W�rttemberg now only lives on in the Porsche logo. On 30 January 1951, not long before the creation of Baden-W�rttemberg, Ferdinand Porsche died from complications following a stroke.
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