Porsche 360

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Porsche 360 Cisitalia in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart.
Porsche 360 Cisitalia in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart.

Porsche 360 Cisitalia is an automobile from Porsche introduced in 1949. The name Cisitalia (short for Consorzio Industriale Sportive Italia) is the name of the company that ordered the model.

The car had a center mounted, supercharged, 1493 cc 12 cylinder engine giving 385 hp (287 kW) and a top speed of 300 km/h (186 mph). Technically daunting, it had four wheel drive, with a rear mounted transaxle plus a secondary axle to send power to the front wheels differential, a state of the art chrome-mollibdenum steel tube spaceframe and its suspension was like those used by the last pre-war Auto-Union GP cars, with Porsche's patented double trailing arms/torsion bars front suspension and a De Dion setup at the rear.