S1 Ep297: Porsche Pt. II: How The Beetle Saved Porsche
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Join us this week for part two of our series as we find out how Porsche rose from the ashes of WWII — with help from the Volkswagen Beetle. It’s a wild ride through stolen designs, a postwar identity crisis, and the scrappy birth of the Porsche 356.
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