Porsche celebrates 2 million Facebook fans with museum car
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
Porsche hit 2 million friends on Facebook this week, and to celebrate, the company dedicated a car to all of them.
The new Porsche Cayman S got a coat of white paint before each friend's profile picture was digitally added to the surface. They're all tinted in red, giving the car a candy-coated look, and the front-plate area reads "100% Porsche, 100% you."
Fans also were asked to vote for their favorite historic racing livery. They chose the Porsche 917 K with the red and white Salzburg colors, known best for Porsche's first overall victory at Le Mans with Richard Atwood and Hans Herrmann at the wheel. That's where the red and white scheme of the museum car comes from.
The Cayman will be displayed at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, until Jan. 27.
You can go to the site here and check out a 360-degree view of the ride with a zoom feature and a search feature to find yourself on the car. Hopefully you're not under a door handle. You can download the photo and save it as wallpaper so you can prove to all of your friends that your face really is on a new Porsche.
By Jake Lingeman