The Porsche logo is a horse! Stuttgart, a beautiful city in Germany, is the home to the Porsche headquarters and where it was founded, and it also contains a horse breeding farm there. Stuttgart made the horse their city seal, which Porsche was inspired to make their logo a black horse as well. Porsche did this as a symbol of power and, of course, the city of Stuttgart. Porsche was founded in April of 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche. The first car that was made by Ferdinand was called the Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, but that was in 1898. Ferdinand Porsche died on January 30th 1951, and his kids, Ferry Porsche and Louis Piëch took over the company for him. Skipping forward, in 2011, Volkswagen and Porsche merged, making Volkswagen its parent company.