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Latest archived mark · 1990s

ABT

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Porsche

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What we compare	ABT	Porsche
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1991	1931
Founder	Abt family	Ferdinand Porsche
Headquarters	Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Name origin	ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991.	The company carries the surname of its founder, Ferdinand Porsche. The formal name Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche is short for his full title in German, Doktor-Ingenieur honoris causa, an honorary doctorate in engineering.
Selected models	Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR	356, 911, 917, Boxster, Cayenne, Taycan
Earliest archived brand logo	—	1938
Latest archived logo	1990s	2014
Archived logo assets	1	9

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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