PORSCHE TYPE NUMBERS

by Don Hollway

Typ 7: Wanderer car chassis (actually the first Porsche design; numbered 7 instead of 1 to create an impression of experience among customers)

Typ 22: Auto Union Grand Prix car

Typ 52: mid-engined, V-10, three-abreast sports car (Wonder if McLaren copied the blueprints for their F1?)

Typ 60: People’s Car

Typ 80: Daimler-Benz land speed record car

Typ 82: Kubelwagen jeep (later resurrected as the Volkswagen "Thing")

Typ 101: Tiger tank prototype

Typ 110: farm tractor

Typ 111: farm tractor

Typ 112: farm tractor

Typ 113: farm tractor

Typ 135: Wind-driven generator

Typ 136: Wind-driven generator

Typ 137: Wind-driven generator

Typ 180: Tiger II prototype

Typ 181: Tiger II prototype

Typ 205: Superheavy tank Maus

Typ 212: 700-horsepower diesel engine for Jagdtiger

Typ 323: 11-horsepower diesel tractor

Typ 360: Cistalia race car