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Porsche

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Alpina

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What we compare	Porsche	Alpina
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1931	January 1, 1965
Founder	Ferdinand Porsche	Burkard Bovensiepen
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Buchloe, Bavaria, Germany
Name origin	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.	Alpina is the name of the company Burkard Bovensiepen founded in 1965, and the sources used here do not state why that word was chosen. It matches the Latin and German word for alpine, and the brand name was already linked to the Bovensiepen family's earlier typewriter business before the BMW tuning work began.
Selected models	356, 911, 917, Boxster, Cayenne, Taycan	C2 2.7, B10 Bi-Turbo, B12 5.7, Roadster V8, B5 Touring, B7
Earliest archived brand logo	1938	1965
Latest archived logo	2014	2026
Archived logo assets	9	2

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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