Porsche: Roots in Racing. Not Posing.

[danidmas]

Another epic video by Porsche:

Racing. Not posing.

And that's the reason why I prefer Porsche over Ferrari, anyway

Link: Autoblog

[chest3r]

Bahh! Beetles....

As far as know, Ferrari was born on race tracks 

BTW nice video!

[pzgren]

Jaaaaaaaa! Great 

[stmoritzer]

cool video 

[goodduck]

very nice video. i love these porsche spots. i wish they had done more with that "family gathering" footage. maybe they will release more in the future.

id like to see porsche back in the p1 class at le mans.

[gucom]

awesome vid!

and goodduck: porsche hinted at an interesting announcement in february, let's keep our fingers crossed...

[danidmas]

awesome vid!

and goodduck: porsche hinted at an interesting announcement in february, let's keep our fingers crossed...

Yay! I read something about this some weeks ago... **crossing fingers**!!

[spanky]

great little advertising video!!!

[Schwalbe]

Yep another cool Porsche video. 

Porsche rules !! 

Thanks for posting Dani. 

[bmagni]

I don't know who they're calling posers but I can guess Ferrari. Well Ferrari has far more racing heritage than them. The owners might be posers but the brand has never advertised as one. And last but not least Ferrari hasn't looked the same for 40 years, hasn't produced an ugly SUV, and is not, by far, the company that makes the most profit out of each sold unit.

[gucom]

at least porsche is making most of its money by selling cars, not branded clothes etc oh wait it might be possible that porsche makes / made more money on its financial activities 

by the way, apart from F1, I'm not sure if Ferrari really has more racing heritage than Porsche...

[bmagni]

at least porsche is making most of its money by selling cars, not branded clothes etc oh wait it might be possible that porsche makes / made more money on its financial activities 

LOL, Porsche doesn't fall short in branded stuff I must say  Besides they will always carry the Cayenne and Panamera in WTF were they thinking?

by the way, apart from F1, I'm not sure if Ferrari really has more racing heritage than Porsche...

in which other categories?

[gucom]

LOL, Porsche doesn't fall short in branded stuff I must say  Besides they will always carry the Cayenne and Panamera in WTF were they thinking?

true that but their branded stuff isn't nearly as much as Ferrari... and I believe the VW owners said that Porsche will become more sportscar focused again

in which other categories?

Take your pick... endurance racing (16 overall Le Mans wins, countless class victories, also legendary in Can Am etc), rallying (lots of WRC rounds before the 4wd era, 2 Dakar wins, some 4 TransSiberia Rally wins with the new Cayenne), grand touring (just about everything including Nürburgring 24h and all sorts of grassroots racing), road racing (targa florio / carrera panamericana etc, although Ferrari  was also strong here), hillclimbs, and some more I can't think of right now. But they also provided the F1 world championship winning engine in '84, '85 and '86.

Also, most of these racing cars had much more relevance for the development of road cars than F1 cars (especially modern F1 cars, which have almost no road car relevance, even though Ferrari is probably the company that best manages to translate F1 technology to its road cars). Just an example: the 911 Turbo, GT2 and GT3, until 2008, had engines that were a direct evelopment of the 1998 Le Mans-winning GT1 car.

[bmagni]

true that but their branded stuff isn't nearly as much as Ferrari... and I believe the VW owners said that Porsche will become more sportscar focused

yeah but they still carry those awful cars in their name, Ferrari doesn't fall short, with cars like the 412 Dino or whatever it's called...

Take your pick... endurance racing (16 overall Le Mans wins, countless class victories, also legendary in Can Am etc), rallying (lots of WRC rounds before the 4wd era, 2 Dakar wins, some 4 TransSiberia Rally wins with the new Cayenne), grand touring (just about everything including Nürburgring 24h and all sorts of grassroots racing), road racing (targa florio / carrera panamericana etc, although Ferrari  was also strong here), hillclimbs, and some more I can't think of right now. But they also provided the F1 world championship winning engine in '84, '85 and '86.

Also, most of these racing cars had much more relevance for the development of road cars than F1 cars (especially modern F1 cars, which have almost no road car relevance, even though Ferrari is probably the company that best manages to translate F1 technology to its road cars). Just an example: the 911 Turbo, GT2 and GT3, until 2008, had engines that were a direct evelopment of the 1998 Le Mans-winning GT1 car.

Ferrari has 9 wins in LM, with various class wins also. As for Can Am they did participate but had little success, same with the rally. But back to the point I still think Ferrari's racing heritage is better than Porsche's, maybe not by a wide margin but still better.

As for F1 not being as important as other series, in road-going cars tech, they are IMO still the first ones to try technology to be used in road cars, maybe not everything as it used to be, but many many parts are first tested in F1. And you say it, Porsche has "never" been in F1 so logically their other racing programs have provided the tech for their road cars    

[gucom]

the innovation in F1 is negligible, it's 99% just minimal improvements to existing systems rather than new technology. Sure it's the fastest, but the most innovative or technologically advanced?

anyway let's just agree to disagree on who has the biggest racing heritage I also love Ferrari, but I love Porsche just a bit more