Dr. Porsche’s original testing grounds

Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road – a mountain that figures prominently in Porsche family lore. What a panorama: At an altitude of 2,571 meters, the Edelweißspitze offers a magnificent view of the Großglockner, Austria’s highest peak. A seemingly untouched high Alpine landscape stretches out below it—a landscape like a painting that has impressed viewers for hundreds of years. At seven in the morning, the air up here is still cool. But the rising late summer sun is already bathing the highest peak in the Glockner Group in warm light. Below the Edelweißspitze, one of Europe’s most spectacular roads – the Großglockner High Alpine Road – winds its way up the mountain in a series of hairpin turns.