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The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Chris Harris talks Cars with Andreas Preuninger

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

Leisure, Comedy, Motoring, Classiccars, Chrisharris, Collectingcars, Cars, Automotive

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Chris Harris sits down with one of his heroes, Andreas Preuninger, Director of the GT car product line for Porsche. Famed for spearheading some of the most memorable sports cars of all time, Andreas talks about how he got started at the company based at the Weissach research centre, and how the GT3 in particular was honed through the generations from a sideline project into a halo car that has helped to define the modern 911.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the CollectingCars.com podcast with Chris Harris and Edward Lovett.

0:14.0

Hello and welcome to another CollectingCars podcast.

0:18.0

Now, I've been waiting to do this one for quite some time, but I'm sitting in Southern Germany

0:23.0

with someone who I think has made some of the best cars I've ever driven.

0:28.0

In fact, his car is probably defined in my career in cars, more than anyone else.

0:32.0

He's called Andreas Prowinger and I don't know what his job title is now.

0:37.0

He'll say it in a second, but when I first met him, he handed me a business card

0:40.0

and it said, manager, dash, high performance cars, Porsche.

0:46.0

I can't think of a better job title in the world.

0:49.0

Is that still your job title and welcome to the podcast?

0:52.0

Hi Chris, happy to be here.

0:54.0

I remember that situation quite well.

0:57.0

It said only manager and I was not too much okay with that.

1:02.0

In the meantime, the business is a little bit different.

1:06.0

It's still high performance cars, but we went through some structural changes,

1:11.0

organizational changes in Porsche Motorsport and so the job titles, despite of me doing mostly the same as I ever did before

1:18.0

in the last 20 years, has changed to a director GT cars.

1:23.0

Maybe it doesn't sound as sexy as manager high performance cars, but it's the same at the end of the day.

1:31.0

So you aren't manager GT cars?

1:33.0

Well, I'm a director GT.

1:36.0

Director, it's called director.

1:38.0

So everyone knows you as the face of the best driving Porsche's, probably in the history of the company,

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