FOUR TO THE FLOOR
Four-wheel drive and Porsche are now as holy a combination as the 911 and its rear engine location. The Cayenne and Macan may be the most obvious signs of Porsche’s extra traction intent, but the firm’s history is littered with four-wheel drive machines. It may not have worn the Stuttgart prancing horse crest, but Ferdinand Porsche’s first car which employed four driven wheels was produced by the Vienesse Lohner-Werke in 1900. The hybrid Lohner-Porsche featured electric hub motors powered by batteries on each of the wheels that were charged by a gasoline-engine generator.
Nearly half a century later in 1947, after creating fourwheel drive Volkswagens for the German war effort, Porsche designed the Type 360 ‘Cisitalia’ racing car. A technological tour de force due to its supercharged 12-cylinder engine, lightweight construction and
