Porsche

This article is about the company. For the character, see Porsche (Eletrix).

Porsche is a popular sports car manufacturer amongst young humans who just got out of 10th grade. Sadly, your father will probably not give you one as your first car.

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Fiction

Transformers film

After learning that Sam Witwicky got an A- on his family genealogy report, his father took him to buy a car. He went through the driveway of a Porsche dealership to tease Sam about the possibility of getting one, but alas, it was just a mean prank. Transformers

Toys

Despite none being officially licensed, there have been various characters and figures with alt-modes distinctively based on Porsche cars.

Porsche 930

• Eletrix Porsche

Porsche 935

"For lunch, the Cliffjumper generally prefers Megatrons, although it has been known to occasionally snack on Starscreams."

• Jazz
• Ricochet

Porsche 924 Turbo

• Carrera
• Cliffjumper
• Hubcap
• Tap-Out

Porsche 928

• Dead End
• Mini-spy
• Sonic

Porsche 962

• Backstreet
• Daytonus
• Jazz (Power of the Primes) / Ricochet (Selects)
• Tailspin

Porsche 959

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• Blowout
• Hot Shot
• Metrobomb
• Minerva
• Nightbeat
• Skystalker
• Rabbicrater

Notes

• Most native English speakers will mispronounce the company's name. Just accept this as a fact.
• Contrary to common misconceptions, the relationship between Porsche and Volkswagen is a lot more complicated than one being the parent company of the other one (which hasn't been true until a few years ago). Here's the cliff notes version: Company founder Ferdinand Porsche designed the original "Volkswagen" ("people's car"), later also called the "KdF" car ("Kraft durch Freude", "power through joy"), which later became known as the "Volkswagen Type 1", or "Volkswagen Beetle", or "Bug". However, Volkswagen and Porsche officially remained two separate companies, even though they collaborated on several projects, each company held stock of the other one, and members of the Porsche family as well as the Piëch family, which is related to the Porsche family, have been members of on the boards of directors and the supervisory boards of the two companies for decades. It's all very complicated, really. In 2005, the much smaller Porsche AG tried to take over the larger Volkswagen AG but eventually failed. Instead, Volkswagen then began taking over Porsche in 2009. The takeover was completed in 2012.
• Porsche AG does not seem to be particularly fond of Transformers. The first toy planned for the Alternators toyline was Jazz (probably to be named "Autobot Jazz" for trademark reasons) as a licensed Porsche 986. A prototype was made, but Porsche refused to grant Hasbro and Takara the license, stating that "Transformers are not worthy [of] carrying the Porsche trademark. They are war machines and the toyline in no way represents the lifestyle and ideas which Porsche represents." As a consequence, the toy ultimately never went into production. Photos of the prototype were first depicted in the Japanese book The Transformers: Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide. Hasbro later displayed the prototype during the BotCon 2007 Hasbro Tour; TakaraTomy subsequently displayed it as part of Transformers Expo in 2014.
  • Volkswagen also refused to license Bumblebee as a Volkswagen New Beetle under the similar concerns of not wanting to associate their cars with "war toys", but later gave in to having a licensed figure almost a decade later.