Porsche’s work within the realm of sports car innovation is long-standing, and deeply rooted. In the early 1900s, Porsche’s founder, Ferdinand Porsche, developed the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus. It was the world’s first functional hybrid car, which took advantage of an electric motor hooked into a gasoline powerplant. Porsche also developed the 356 model in 1948, which was the world’s first road-going car to boast a deliberately lightweight construction paired with torsion-bar suspension and a rear-mounted engine.
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