Austrian-German automotive engineer who designed the Volkswagen Beetle, the Tiger tank, and numerous early automotive innovations — founding the Porsche engineering consultancy in 1931 that his son would eventually turn into the Porsche sports car company.
Designed the Volkswagen Beetle as Hitler's 'people's car' — a rear-engine, air-cooled design that became the most produced car in history — while simultaneously establishing the Porsche engineering firm whose technical DNA defines the sports cars his family produced after the war.
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