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The designer of the Porsche 911, Butzi Porsche, was kicked out of industrial design school in his first year for apparent lack of talent. When he went to work for his father at Porsche, the company's design director rejected his ideas, so he had the 911 prototype built by an outside contractor.
The name of the first Porsche 911 was actually the Porsche 901. It was changed to 911 after Peugeot protested that they had exclusive rights to car names that consisted of 3 numbers with the middle number being a zero.
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Porsche tried to replace its flagship car, the 911, with the bigger, more luxurious 928, but people kept buying the iconic 911. The 911 still hadn’t had a major redesign since its birth in 1963, and only received one in 1998, three years after the 928 went out of production.
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The Porsche 901 was the original name intended for their 911 but the French car maker Peugeot objected to Porsche using any three digit number where the middle number was 0.
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Porsche 911 was originally Porsche 901 but had to change because Peugeot had the copyright about any model number with 3 digits and a zero in the middle. No Peugeot 901 was ever been designed or produced though
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On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Porsche bought ads saying "The next 911 is coming"
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Bill Gates was arrested in 1977 by the Albuquerque, New Mexico Police for racing a Porsche 911.
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Porsche originally wanted to call their famous 911 the 901 but, Peugeot owned the rights. So rather than it being just a 911 in France, they changed it completely.
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In 1977 Bill Gates was arrested by the Albuquerque, New Mexico Police for racing a Porsche 911.
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The top 5 fastest cars around the Nurburgring are made by VW Group. The fastest being the 991.2 Porsche 911 GT2 RS at 6.47.25, followed by the Lamborghini Huracan Performante, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Porsche 918 Spyder, and Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce
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When rappers like Migos talk about "frog eyes," they are making references to the headlights of higher end vehicles, like the Porsche 911
