BREAKING NEW GROUND
A place where engineering and enthusiasm have always gone hand in hand. Where visions are born and every model is developed completely from scratch. From the initial idea to the finished design. From the very first touch to the final test drive. From the race-bred sports car to the thoroughbred race car. No matter where Porsche builds a vehicle, it is always designed in Weissach, but how did the art of engineering find a home in this small town between Stuttgart and Pforzheim?
By 1960, with 356 production in full swing, Ferry Porsche needed a test track. Public roads were getting busier and, much to his frustration, Volkswagen’s proving ground was some distance away (eighteen kilometres outside Wolfsburg,
