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Outside of these groups however, the pronunciation porsh (IPA /pɔɹʃ/) is standard. The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians was a Romanian film, but featured emigrant Hungarians heavily in the storyline. There is a habit in American English towards over-compensating the e, which then results into pronouncing it as Pors-scha (IPA /ˈpɔɹʃa/). The Sons of the Great Mother Bear for example was a co-production between East Germany and Czechoslovakia, starring a Yugoslav, scripted in German, and shot in a number of different Eastern Bloc countries and used a variety of locations including Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Mongolia and Czechoslovakia. In English, the German form is often heard from official Porsche sources and from some Porsche owners and enthusiasts. Interestingly, many of the non-Soviet examples of the genre were international co-productions akin to the Spaghetti Westerns. In German "Porsche" is pronounced porsh-uh (IPA /ˈpɔɹʃə/). it started a series of "Indian films" by the East German DEFA studios which were quite successful.

See: Category:Porsche vehicles. The German The Sons of the Great Mother Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin, 1966) turned the traditional American "Cowboy and Indian" conventions on their head, casting the Native Americans as the heroes and the American Army as the villains, with some obvious Cold War overtones.. Major Victories and Championships. The Czech Lemonade Joe and the Soviet A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines plump for pastiche or satire, making fun of the hard worn conventions of the American films. Based on LMP2 homologaton regulations, the RS Spyder made its debut at Laguna Seca during the final race of the 2005 ALMS season and immediately garnering a class win in the LMP2 class and finishing 5th overall. Red Westerns which use the actual American west as a setting include, the Romanian The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Pruncul, Petrolul Si Ardelenii, 1981) which dramatises the struggles of Romanian and Hungarian settlers in a new land. Porsche dropped its factory motorsports programs during the turn of the century (preferring to support privateers) for financial reasons and has only recently made a comeback with the new RS Spyder prototype. Add the gun slinging ethos, horse riding, working the land, pioneers of a sort (ideological often in this case!), the bounty hunter traversing difficult terrain with outlaw in tow, railroading and taming the wild frontier and you have a generic mirror image of the American genre.

Stock and lightly-modified Porsches are raced in many competitions around the world; some of these are primarily amateur classes for enthusiasts, but the Porsche Michelin Supercup is a wholly professional category raced as a support category for European Formula One rounds. The Ural Mountains can be equivalent to Monument Valley, the Volga river for the Rio Grande. Porsche returned to F1 again in 1991 as an engine supplier, however this time with disastrous results: Porsche-powered Footwork cars failed to score a single point, and failed to even qualify for over half the races that year; Porsche has not participated in Formula One since. By substituting, 'red' for 'blue' and 'Turk' for Mexican, there are the same opportunities for a sweeping drama played out against a backdrop of wide-open spaces. Porsche-powered cars took two constructor championships in 1984 and 1985 and three driver crowns in 1984, 1985 and 1986. In Russia, the Ostern uses the generic calling cards of the American Western to dramatise the civil war in Central Asia in the 1920s and 30s, in which the Red Army fought to maintain their country against Islamic Turkic 'Basmachi' rebels. Porsche returned in 1983 after nearly two decades away, supplying engines badged as TAG units for the McLaren Team. Westerns have proven particularly transferrable in the way that they create a mythology out of relatively recent history, a malleable idea that translates well to different cultures.

Privateers continued to enter out-dated Porsche 718 in F1 until 1964. In a war in which many fabrications were made on both sides, there was often a lingering fascination with the cultural developments in enemy countries. At the end of the season, Porsche retired from F1 due to the high costs. 'Red Westerns' provide a counterpoint to familiar mythologies and conventions of the original genre, particularly as the makers were on the other side of a propaganda war without parallel, the Cold War, and this is partially why many have never been shown in the west, at least not until after the Cold War ended. One week later, he repeated the success in front of Porsche's home crowd on Stuttgart's Solitude in a non-championship race. In particular, Yugoslavia, Mongolia and the Southern USSR were used. Porsche has also participated in Formula One racing, with mixed results; its first foray (as a constructor) from 1961 to 1962 produced just one win in a championship race, claimed by Dan Gurney at the 1962 French Grand Prix. 'Red Westerns' of the first type are often compared to 'Spaghetti Westerns' (although technically these are 'Paella Westerns' being shot in Spain, rather than Italy), in that they use local scenery to double up for the American West.

The Paris Dakar Rally was won twice, too using the 911 derived Porsche 959 Group B supercar. Naturally many of these contained political messages, but they can still be watched impartially as action films, comedies etc, and it is certainly true to say that American director John Ford imbued his films with controversial political messages too. Jean-Pierre Nicolas even managed to win the 1978 Monte Carlo Rally with a private 911 SC. It generally took two forms:. Porsche official team was only present in seldom occasion in Rally, but the best private 911s were often close to other brand works car. The Ostern (Eastern) or Red Western was the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries' take on the Western movie. The various version versions of the 911 also proved to be serious competitor in Rally as long as the regulations allowed them to compete. Examples of these include The Burning Miles (Ognennie Versti/Огненные вёрсты, 1957), The Bodyguard (Telokhranitel/Телохранитель, 1979), At Home among Strangers (1971), and famous Soviet film White Sun of the Desert (Beloye Solntse Pustynt/Белое солнце пустыни', 1970). While some of these are obviously influenced by Westerns, in some cases, the material can be seen as a parallel formation.

Recently, 996-generation 911 GT3s have dominated their class at Le Mans and similar endurance and GT races. Easterns (Osterns), which took place usually on the steppes or Asian parts of the USSR, especially during the Russian Revolution or following Civil War. Many Porsche race cars are run successfully by customer teams, financed and run without any factory support - often they have beaten the factory itself. These were much more common in Eastern Europe, rather than the USSR itself. The Porsche 917 is considered one of the most iconic sports racing cars of all time and gave Porsche their first Le Mans win while the Group C Porsche 956/962C is one of the most successful sports prototype racers ever produced. Proper Red Westerns, set in America's 'Wild West', such as Czechoslovakia's Lemonade Joe (Limonadovy Joe, 1964), or the East-German The Sons of the Great Mother Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin, 1966) or The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Pruncul, Petrolul Si Ardelenii, Romania, 1981) involving radically different themes and genres. Also, they did well in the Mille Miglia and especially 24 hours of Le Mans where they have won 16 times overall (more than any other company), plus many class wins.

Particular success has been in sports car racing, notably the Carrera Panamericana and Targa Florio, races which were later used in the naming of street cars. As Porsche offered only small capacity cars in the 1950s and 1960s, they scored many wins in their classes, and occasionally also overall victories against bigger cars. Porsche has been successful in many branches of motor-racing, scoring a total of more than 23,000 victories. In early October 2005 the company announced acquisition of an 18.53% stake in Volkswagen AG and disclosed intentions to acquire additional VW shares in the future.

As of 2005, the extended Porsche and Piech families controlled all of Porsche AG's voting shares. In 2004, production of the Porsche Carrera GT commenced in Leipzig, and at EUR 450,000.00 it is the most expensive production model Porsche ever built. Porsche's 2002 introduction of the Cayenne also marked the unveiling of a new production facility in Leipzig, Saxony, which today accounts for nearly half of Porsche's annual output. With half of all voting shares, he also remains the largest individual shareholder of Porsche AG.

Ferdinand Porsche's grandson, Ferdinand Piëch, was chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002. Porsche hired Toyota to assist in Japanese production methods, Toyota are also assisting Porshce with Hybrid technology. Both Audi and Škoda are wholly-owned subsidiaries of VW. The Porsche Cayenne, introduced in 2002, shares the entire body with VW Touareg, which are built at the Škoda factory in Bratislava.

Most 944 were also done there even though they used many fewer VW components. The two companies collaborated in 1969 to make the VW-Porsche 914 and 914-6, in 1976 with the Porsche 924, which used many Audi components and was built at an Audi Neckarsulm factory. The company has always had a close relationship with Volkswagen, and as already mentioned, the first Porsche cars used many Volkswagen components. A cost-reduced model with the same body but 356-derived running gear (including its four-cylinder engine) was sold as the 912.

It remains in production; however, after several generations of revision, current-model 911s share only the basic mechanical concept of a rear-engined, six=cylinder coupe, and basic styling cues with the original car. Far more than any other model, the Porsche brand is defined by the 911. The car has become their most well-known model, successful on the race-track, in rallies, and in terms of sales. In 1963, after some success in motor-racing (namely with the Porsche 550 Spyder), the company launched the Porsche 911, another air-cooled, rear-engined sports car, this time with a 6-cylinder "boxer" engine.

The sleek bodywork was designed by Erwin Komenda who had also designed the body of the Beetle. The last 356s were powered by 100% Porsche designed engines. However, the 356 had several evolutions while in production and many VW parts were replaced by Porsche-made parts. Again, the car used components from the Beetle including its engine, gearbox and suspension.

Ferdinand Porsche worked with his son Ferry Porsche in designing the 356 but died soon after the first prototype was built. Many people regard the 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the fledgling company. The second Porsche model, the Porsche 356 sports car of 1948, was initially built in Gmünd, Austria, where the company was evacuated to during war times, but after building 49 cars the company relocated back to Zuffenhausen. The first Porsche, the Porsche 64 from 1938, used many components from the Volkswagen Beetle.

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. Porsche's main competition is derived from Jaguar, BMW, Maserati, Aston Martin and arguably Mercedes-Benz. Porsche also helped Harley-Davidson design their new engine in their newer V-Rod motorcycle.

Studebaker, SEAT, Daewoo, Subaru and Yugo have consulted Porsche on engineering for their cars or engines. Porsche has for many years offered consultancy services to various other car manufacturers. Some Boxster and Cayman production is outsourced to Valmet Automotive in Finland. The headquarters and main factory are still at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, but for the Cayenne and Carrera GT there is a new plant at Leipzig, in the east of Germany.

As a company, Porsche is known for weathering changing market conditions with great financial stability, while retaining most production in Germany during an age when most other German car manufacturers have moved at least partly to Eastern Europe or overseas. Future plans include a high performance luxury sedan. The current Porsche lineup includes everything from an entry-level roadster (Boxster) to a Supercar (Carrera GT). Porsche has a reputation for producing high-end sports vehicles that, despite their high performance, are reliable and tractable enough to be used for daily driving, and of high manufacturing quality and durability.

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