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in the 1950s and 1960s, largely attributed to the car’s sturdiness. “Bugs” were still being manufactured in Volkswagen’s Latin American facilities until 2019. It was in the Volkswagen that the seed for the idea of today’s Porsche sports cars grew. Aerodynamic coupes of the cars, three of them, were built to compete in the Berlin-Rome rallies of the 1930s, and the visual similarities between these vehicles and today’s Porsches are so striking that some historians consider them prototypes.

The Porsche headquarters are still in Zuffenhausen, near Stuttgart.

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