Porsche

Outside of these groups however, the pronunciation porsh (IPA /pɔɹʃ/) is standard.
. There is a habit in American English towards over-compensating the e, which then results into pronouncing it as Pors-scha (IPA /ˈpɔɹʃa/).
. In English, the German form is often heard from official Porsche sources and from some Porsche owners and enthusiasts. The theme is currently a remixed version of the one used between 1991 and 1995 and is composed by Tony Gibber. In German "Porsche" is pronounced porsh-uh (IPA /ˈpɔɹʃə/). This was replaced in 1986 with "The Wizard", a composition by Paul Hardcastle.

See: Category:Porsche vehicles. In 1981 an original song 'Yellow Pearl' by Phil Lynott was commissioned as the new theme music. Major Victories and Championships. was used as the show's theme tune for most of the 1970s, and also in a remixed version between 1998 and 2003, although ironically the band never performed on the show. 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. S. 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. C.

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. A version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" by C. 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. Mainly this has been performers who disliked the mime format of the show, often as a more effective protest of this rather than just refusing to appear. Porsche-powered cars took two constructor championships in 1984 and 1985 and three driver crowns in 1984, 1985 and 1986. A number of performers have sent up the format in various ways. Porsche returned in 1983 after nearly two decades away, supplying engines badged as TAG units for the McLaren Team. In addition, the creator of the show, Johnnie Stewart, died on April 29, 2005.

Privateers continued to enter out-dated Porsche 718 in F1 until 1964. Although the original four presenters are still alive, five presenters of the show have passed away — Stuart Henry, Kenny Everett, occasional presenter Caron Keating, John Peel and Tommy Vance. At the end of the season, Porsche retired from F1 due to the high costs. An edited version of the UK show can be seen on BBC Prime, the weekend after UK transmission. One week later, he repeated the success in front of Porsche's home crowd on Stuttgart's Solitude in a non-championship race. It is being planned for a possible Fall 2006 launch. 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. It is expected to be similar to the 1987 version, but it will also utilize the Billboard magazine music charts, most notably the Hot 100 chart.

The Paris Dakar Rally was won twice, too using the 911 derived Porsche 959 Group B supercar. On January 23, 2006, record producer Lou Pearlman made a deal to bring "Top of the Pops" back to the airwaves in the United States. Jean-Pierre Nicolas even managed to win the 1978 Monte Carlo Rally with a private 911 SC. Viewer interest was gone and the show was taken off BBC America's schedule. Porsche official team was only present in seldom occasion in Rally, but the best private 911s were often close to other brand works car. BBC America then tinkered with the show by cutting a few minutes out of each show and moving it to a weekday time slot. The various version versions of the 911 also proved to be serious competitor in Rally as long as the regulations allowed them to compete. The network would get the episodes one week after they were transmitted in the UK.

Recently, 996-generation 911 GT3s have dominated their class at Le Mans and similar endurance and GT races. In 2002, BBC America presented the BBC version of Top of the Pops as part of their weekend schedule. Many Porsche race cars are run successfully by customer teams, financed and run without any factory support - often they have beaten the factory itself. The show was presented on late Friday nights and lasted almost a year. 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. It was hosted by Nia Peeples and even showed performances from the BBC version of the programme. 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. In 1987, the CBS television network decided to try an American version of the show.

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. Top of the Pops had short-lived fame in the United States. 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. This is aimed at a younger audience as is part of the CBBC Saturday Morning lineup. Porsche has been successful in many branches of motor-racing, scoring a total of more than 23,000 victories. A more recent spin-off is Top of the Pops Reloaded (previously Top of the Pops Saturday), showing on Saturday mornings on BBC One. 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. It has been shown on BBC2 since September 1994, although the network's new controller Roly Keating announced in the summer of 2004 that it was being "rested" (repeats, however, continue on the digital channel UKTV G2).

As of 2005, the extended Porsche and Piech families controlled all of Porsche AG's voting shares. The BBC have also had a show called TOTP2 which shows archive footage from as early as the 1960s of musicians on earlier Top of the Pops shows. 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. It now averages around 1.5 million viewers. 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. Since the move to Sundays, Cotton has continued to host with a different guest presenter each week, such as Rufus Hound or Richard Bacon. With half of all voting shares, he also remains the largest individual shareholder of Porsche AG. The show was co-hosted by Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton until 11th July 2005 every Friday night.

Ferdinand Porsche's grandson, Ferdinand Piëch, was chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002. It was not renewed due to his apparent lack of popularity with TV viewers. Porsche hired Toyota to assist in Japanese production methods, Toyota are also assisting Porshce with Hybrid technology. The new show was hosted by MTV presenter Tim Kash until his contract expired in August 2004. Both Audi and Škoda are wholly-owned subsidiaries of VW. In a break with the previous format, the show is to play more up-and-coming tracks ahead of any chart success, and also to feature interviews with artists. The Porsche Cayenne, introduced in 2002, shares the entire body with VW Touareg, which are built at the Škoda factory in Bratislava. In November 2003, the show was radically overhauled in what has been widely reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalise the long-running series.

Most 944 were also done there even though they used many fewer VW components. While this resulted in some of the show's best performances — notably Kurt Cobain's singing on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — it also exposed a number of poor live singers, and was dropped as a general rule. 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. For a few years from 1991 the show adopted a live vocal to pre-recorded backing track policy. The company has always had a close relationship with Volkswagen, and as already mentioned, the first Porsche cars used many Volkswagen components. Acts performing on the show have traditionally mimed to a pre-recorded track and this accounts for a number of performers who never appeared on the show due to a resistance to mime. A cost-reduced model with the same body but 356-derived running gear (including its four-cylinder engine) was sold as the 912. In its heyday during the glam rock era of the early 1970s, the show featured the tightly choreographed dance troupe Pan's People (later succeeded by Legs & Co.), something which has been widely imitated on similar shows ever since.

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. The show has historically been closely associated with the BBC radio station Radio 1, usually being presented by DJs from the station (although from October 1991 to January 1994 no Radio 1 DJs presented the show, and the association has not been as close as it once was). Far more than any other model, the Porsche brand is defined by the 911. It celebrated its 2000th show in 2002. The car has become their most well-known model, successful on the race-track, in rallies, and in terms of sales. This chart show has seen many changes through the decades: in style, design, fashion and taste. 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 first edition on BBC Two was broadcast on 17 July 2005 at 7pm.

The sleek bodywork was designed by Erwin Komenda who had also designed the body of the Beetle. However, it was insisted that the move was in fact so that the show would air immediately after the official announcement of the new top 40 chart on Radio 1, as it was thought that by the following Friday, the chart seemed out-of-date. The last 356s were powered by 100% Porsche designed engines. This move has been widely reported as a final "sidelining" of the show, and perhaps a move towards cancelling it altogether. However, the 356 had several evolutions while in production and many VW parts were replaced by Porsche-made parts. By November 2004, viewing figures had plummeted to below three million, prompting announcement by the BBC that the show was going to move again to Sunday evenings on BBC Two, thus losing its prime-time slot on BBC One which it had maintained for forty years.[2]. Again, the car used components from the Beetle including its engine, gearbox and suspension. It was traditionally shown on a Thursday night, but was moved to a Friday in 1996, a change which caused some controversy.

Ferdinand Porsche worked with his son Ferry Porsche in designing the 356 but died soon after the first prototype was built. During its heyday in the 1970s, it attracted 15 million viewers each week [1]. Many people regard the 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the fledgling company. It was originally intended to have only a few programmes but has been going for over 40 years. 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. Over 2000 episodes have been shown over the years; and the act that has appeared in the most episodes is the British rock band, Status Quo. The first Porsche, the Porsche 64 from 1938, used many components from the Volkswagen Beetle. Savile rotated with three other presenters: Alan Freeman, Pete Murray and David Jacobs.

. DJ Jimmy Savile presented the first show, which featured (in order) The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man'", Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to be With You", the Dave Clark Five with "Glad All Over", The Hollies with "Stay", The Swinging Blue Jeans with "The Hippy Hippy Shake" and The Beatles with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", that week's number one.
. Top of the Pops began on New Year's Day 1964 in a studio set in a disused church in Manchester. 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. Each programme consists of half an hour of performances of some of that week's best-selling popular music.

Studebaker, SEAT, Daewoo, Subaru and Yugo have consulted Porsche on engineering for their cars or engines. Top of the Pops is a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC Two and now licensed for local versions around the world. Porsche has for many years offered consultancy services to various other car manufacturers. The New Jersey power pop band The Smithereens recorded a song entitled "Top of the Pops" on their album "Blow Up.". Some Boxster and Cayman production is outsourced to Valmet Automotive in Finland. Akira the Don's single, 'Living in the Future'. 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. The song "Formed a Band" by Art Brut includes in its lyrics, "We’re gonna write a song as universal as happy Birthday, that makes sure everybody knows that everything is going to be OK, we’re going to take that song and we’re going to play it 8 weeks in a row on Top of the Pops." In their song "Bad Weekend," the band also sings, "sometimes it's hard to stop when your heart is set on Top of the Pops, Top of the Pops." Art Brut Lyrics.

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. "Me Plus One" by Anne Lilia Berge Strand or more commonly Annie. Future plans include a high performance luxury sedan. Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats. The current Porsche lineup includes everything from an entry-level roadster (Boxster) to a Supercar (Carrera GT). A song entitled "Top of the Pops" appeared on the Kinks album, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. 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. "C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!", originally by Bow Wow Wow and covered by Seattle, WA band Pretty Girls Make Graves.

The company is located in Zuffenhausen, a city district of Stuttgart. The Scottish punk band The Rezillos lampooned the show as a vehicle for vapid commercialism and for paying little or no attention to talented, unknown bands, in their song "Top of the Pops." Ironically the band actually ended up performing the song on the programme (twice) when it entered the charts — it would appear the producers misunderstood the song's lyrics and thought it was an affectionate tribute. Porsche AG), pronounced as a two syllable word (porsh-uh, IPA: pɔrʃʌ) , is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. Possibly because of this, his next appearance as presenter wasn't until 1982. F. When John Peel first presented the programme in 1968 he forgot the name of Amen Corner who were appearing that week. c. When Elvis Costello performed "Radio Radio" on the show, he changed the lyrics to criticise Tony Blackburn who was the presenter that week.

h. Because of the BBC's former policy of deleting old programmes, nearly all of the episodes from the first ten years of the programme's history have been lost, including all of The Beatles' appearances. Ing. Super Furry Animals once got the whole audience to sit down during a live performance of theirs. Porsche (Dr. In 1980, the then fledgling heavy metal superstars Iron Maiden became the first band to play live on the show since The Who in 1972, when they refused to mime to their single "Running Free". The correct pronunciation of 'Porsche'. It noticeably had Victoria Beckham promote her new song "This Groove", with a performance 7 times in the first 8 shows, including the (pre-recorded) Christmas special.