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"Homage to a Classic\nIn Stuttgart, the Innovative Porsche Museum Salutes the Iconic German Marque\nDesigned by Vienna-based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, the new, 277,600- square-foot Porsche Museum is located in Stuttgart\u2019s Zuffenhausen district, the seat of Porsche\u2019s design headquarters for over a half-century.\nOff the foyer is the restaurant, Boxenstopp.\nIn the exhibition hall, some of the museum\u2019s earliest cars, dating back to the 1920s, appear alongside classic sports cars and racers.\nRegarded as the ancestor of all Porsche sports cars, the Type 64 was designed in 1938 for the Berlin-Rome race, curtailed by the war.\nAn exhibit of winners dating from the 1950s, \u201960s and \u201970s commemorates the Targa Florio open-road endurance race through the mountains of Sicily.\nIn the months before the Porsche Museum opened, sharp-eyed fans spotted prototypes of a new Porsche running through the narrow Zuffenhausen streets. The four-seat Panamera, introduced at the Shanghai auto show on April 21, 2009, was inspired by many of the vehicles inside the museum, says Porsche design chief Michael Mauer. But it has no comparison outside it.\\n\\nThe 400-horsepower Panamera 4S wears what is clearly a Porsche face, but the side gills and startling second set of doors assure its distinctiveness from earlier designs. Mauer predicts that, as with the ultimately successful Cayenne SUV that Porsche introduced in 2003, not everyone will love the Panamera initially. But he sees an advantage in the new coupe\u2019s gradual acceptance: \u201CIt lends a certain timelessness.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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