Porsche 911: 10 super facts on the supercar
The Porsche 911 is the most popular car made by the company.
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Ferdinand Porsche and car inventions go hand in hand. In 1900, at the age of 25, he designed the first hybrid gasoline-electric car for an Austrian company. Then, in June 1934, he got a contract from Adolf Hitler to design a people's car. That car became the Volkswagen Beetle.
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The car was originally named Porsche 901, and 82 cars were built as 901s. However, Peugeot protested on the grounds that in France it had exclusive rights to car names formed by three numbers with a zero in the middle. So, instead of selling the new model with another name in France, Porsche changed the name to 911.
