Porsche Car Servicing - Porsche Garage - Porsche Mechanic
Here at Valley Car servicing we offer a quality, professional service from local friendly and experienced car mechanics.
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Our Porsche Service Our service includes free collection and delivery of your Porsche at your chosen time and place. Our experienced and fully qualified mechanics check all cars from top to bottom to make sure the entire car is mechanically sound in every way. Free valet. On completion of services your Porsche service book will be stamped and kept fully compliant with your car's warranty Savings Warranty Our costs To book or enquire about our Porsche service please call our friendly staff
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The History of Porsche Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche ([ˈpɔrʃə]), Porsche a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury high performance porsche automobiles, Porsche is majority-owned by the Piëch and Porsche families. Porsche is headquartered in Zuffenhausen, a city district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. Porsche SE is a holding company which has two main subsidiaries – Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (which stands for Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft), often shortened to Porsche AG, and Volkswagen AG. Porsche AG is the subsidiary of Porsche SE which is responsible for the actual production and manufacture of the Porsche automobile line, and Volkswagen AG is the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, which includes (but is not limited to) the automotive marques Audi, Bentley Motors, Bugatti Automobiles and Lamborghini.History Weimar-era Württemberg coat of arms During World War II, Volkswagen production turned to the military version of the Volkswagen Beetle, the Kübelwagen, 52,000 produced, and Schwimmwagen, 14,000 produced. Porsche produced several designs for heavy tanks during the war, losing out to Henschel & Son in both contracts that ultimately led to the Tiger I and the Tiger II. However, not all this work was wasted, as the chassis Porsche designed for the Tiger I was used as the base for the Elefant tank destroyer. Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes.[citation needed] At the end of WW2 in 1945, the Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg fell to the British. Ferdinand lost his position as Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen, and a British Army Major – Ivan Hirst was put in charge of the factory. (In Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen company magazine dubbed him "The British Major who saved Volkswagen.") On 15 December of that year, Ferdinand was arrested for war crimes, but not tried. During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy. He also had to steer the company through some of its most difficult days until his father's release in August 1947. The first models of what was to become the 356 were built in a small sawmill in Gmünd, Austria. The prototype car was shown to German auto dealers, and when pre-orders reached a set threshold, production was begun. Many regard the 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the fledgling company. Porsche commissioned a Zuffenhausen-based company, Reutter Karosserie, which had previously collaborated with the firm on Volkswagen Beetle prototypes, to produce the 356's steel body. In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant (Werk 2) across the street from Reutter Karosserie; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse. The 356 was road certified in 1948. |