Ferry Porsche, every mention

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired Jun 27, 2023 · 23 mentions

• ▶ 23:30 David Rosenthal So Ferdinand's son, Ferry Portia, who had been working in the business, I think a little bit before the war and then, and then during the war, too, um, he's also arrested for war crimes, too, at the end of the war.
• ▶ 25:48 David Rosenthal Okay, so Ferry and Louise go back to Austria.
• ▶ 26:49 David Rosenthal At this point, Ferry has an idea, and it turns out it's a pretty damn good one.
• ▶ 27:22 David Rosenthal And, uh, Ferry said, uh, later in a 1972 interview, I saw that if you had enough power in a small car, it is nicer to drive than if you have a big car, which is also overpowered, and it is more fun.
• ▶ 30:21 David Rosenthal So, Ferry has this idea.
• ▶ 32:53 David Rosenthal Even in war torn Europe for a 40,000 dollar sports car, like there are enough people who it turns out are interested enough in Ferry's vision for a small, fun, fast sports car.
• ▶ 37:27 David Rosenthal Is that Ferdinand and Ferry, the original Ferdinand and his son Ferry, they're gonna move back to Stuttgart and take over, retake over the kind of German operations of Porsche.
• ▶ 49:38 David Rosenthal There's this great, great, great ferry Porsche quote about this, uh, which he would say later about the nine 11, but I, I think this also applies in early form to the three 56.
• ▶ 51:37 Doug DeMuro There have been some Porsches that kind of go one way or another in the philosophy, but like, generally speaking, it's sort of a middle of the road going back to Ferry's quote about this exact thing can do all these things.
• ▶ 53:11 David Rosenthal So in 1954, Porsche, which I don't think Ferdinand and Ferry like envisioned like we're going to sell cars in America.
• ▶ 55:37 David Rosenthal So, okay, in 1962, Ferry Porsche makes the decision, like, three 56 is amazing, you know, rebirth of the company.
• ▶ 56:16 David Rosenthal So the next generation of Porsches, Ferry's son Ferdinand, known as Bootsy, named Ferdinand, named after his grandfather, founder of Porsche, was working in the company, and he had been leading the body design for this larger sedan that…
• ▶ 56:31 David Rosenthal Ferry decides for a bunch of reasons that, to cancel the sedan project, um, probably the most important reason was, um, kind of, I don't know how much of this was government motivated, and how much of it was just sort of like a cabal of…
• ▶ 58:01 David Rosenthal Ferry says, okay, let's take these two kind of failed projects that, you know, the next generation's working on.
• ▶ 1:06:25 David Rosenthal So Ferry starts thinking like, okay, and this is part of the plan all along.
• ▶ 1:07:01 David Rosenthal But for this new car, Ferry says, hey, we're not really equipped yet to be running multiple lines
• ▶ 1:07:50 David Rosenthal And, uh, ferry puts his nephew Ferdinand in charge of this joint project with Volkswagen, a very fateful decision as we shall see.
• ▶ 1:14:11 David Rosenthal Ferries getting older here.
• ▶ 1:14:21 David Rosenthal He's Ferry's son, and he's a great designer.
• ▶ 1:15:31 David Rosenthal Ferry and Louise together call a joint family summit.
• ▶ 1:15:38 David Rosenthal I don't know, I'm speculating here, but I, I suspect Ferry and Louise were, didn't have a lot of acrimony over them.
• ▶ 1:15:44 David Rosenthal I mean, they're brother and sister, and they had, Louise had her company, Ferry had his company.
• ▶ 1:16:20 David Rosenthal Ferry!