Porsche 911 Designer Butzi Porsche Dead at 76
By Rory Carroll
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AutoWeek 17 hours ago
Ferdinand Alexander “Butzi” Porsche died Thursday morning in Salzburg, Austria. He was 76.
Since 1972, Porsche had led his own industrial design firm, Porsche Design. That firm produced numerous highly regarded, functionalist designs for a wide array of consumer products.
Of course, Butzi Porsche will be most remembered for his role in designing the car that would come to be known as the
Porsche 911. The basic shape of that car, which he first sketched in 1959, has remained almost unchanged through 49 years of Porsche 911 production.