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...financial crisis may have taken a bite out of Porsche's sales figures, but there's still reason to celebrate at the automaker's headquarters in the southern German city of Stuttgart. Yes, it's a year late, but the spectacular new Porsche Museum is finally finished and has just opened to the public...
...this history is on show in a historically significant location: the museum is in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the otherwise obscure district where, in 1938, Ferdinand Porsche built the first VW Beetle, and, a year later, the 64 - the forefather of Porsche sports cars ever since. But you may prefer to skip the history and simply admire the stunningly beautiful automobiles. Car lovers can spend all day taking in models such as the 356 No. 1 Roadster (released in 1948, it was the first sports car ever to bear the Porsche name), an armada of 917 racing cars, and numerous variations...
...German Engineering. What with bankers denied their bonuses and sales of luxury cars down 24% in the U.S., about the only place you'll see a Porsche these days is in the car-maker's new museum in Stuttgart. You can goggle at 80 historic vehicles and watch technicians at work on customers' classic cars. If the pretty putt-putts whet your appetite, check out the on-site gourmet restaurant, Christophorus, and the cigar bar. Porscheplatz 1, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen; for reservations at Christophorus, dial...
...know, of course, that Detroit is on its knees. But Stuttgart, Tokyo and Seoul aren't faring particularly well either. Toyota's U.S. sales were off 16% last year. Yet Subaru was positive to the tune of 491 cars. The company sold 187,699 vehicles last year, led by value-driven models like the Forester SUV and Outback wagon ($19,995 to $22,295) and the muscled-up Impreza WRX ($24,995), a small sedan. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
Merckle was born in 1934, and in 1945 fled with his family from Sudetenland, a region near the German-Czech border that was inhabited by ethnic Germans and occupied by Hitler's forces in 1938. His family settled in Blaubeuren, a small town in southern Germany located between Stuttgart...