But there is some real controversy around the car, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with the semantics of whether or not it’s a Porsche. It has to do with the dark past of the car and the internet’s favorite dark-past players, Nazis.
It also doesn’t have to do with the car failing to sell even after a $17 million bid at a recent auction, itself a bit of a mishap that involved the car incorrectly called at up to $70 million.
The Type 64, also known as the 60K10, was built to compete in a Berlin-to-Rome Axis race that never happened. As such, it was definitely built with clear propaganda goals: bring attention to the allegedly upcoming Strength-Through-Joy (KdF) Peoples’ Car (you know, Volkswagen), and to generally flaunt German National Socialist industrial prowess to the rest of the world.
Really, you could argue that nearly every German racing car of that era was designed to be propaganda for the Nazis; the legendary Auto Union Silver Arrows, those V12 and V16 mid/rear-engined racing cars built in the late 1930s are a perfect example of this.
https://jalopnik.com/should-the-porsche-designed-type-64-racer-be-considered-1837377821
FFS People Need to Get Over Themselves .....
It also doesn’t have to do with the car failing to sell even after a $17 million bid at a recent auction, itself a bit of a mishap that involved the car incorrectly called at up to $70 million.
The Type 64, also known as the 60K10, was built to compete in a Berlin-to-Rome Axis race that never happened. As such, it was definitely built with clear propaganda goals: bring attention to the allegedly upcoming Strength-Through-Joy (KdF) Peoples’ Car (you know, Volkswagen), and to generally flaunt German National Socialist industrial prowess to the rest of the world.
Really, you could argue that nearly every German racing car of that era was designed to be propaganda for the Nazis; the legendary Auto Union Silver Arrows, those V12 and V16 mid/rear-engined racing cars built in the late 1930s are a perfect example of this.
https://jalopnik.com/should-the-porsche-designed-type-64-racer-be-considered-1837377821
FFS People Need to Get Over Themselves .....