''Christophorus'' is the official customer magazine of
Porsche AG
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company is ...
. The magazine is currently distributed in ten languages and is one of the oldest customer publications in the world. Since its first edition in 1952, all issues have been numbered consecutively. The name Christophorus is based on
Saint Christopher
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, the patron saint of travellers.
''Christophorus'' today
The magazine offers its readers information on Porsche models, history, motor sports and automotive technology, as well as providing a glimpse behind the scenes of the company. The print version of Christophorus currently contains 100 pages and appears four times a year in
German
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English
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French
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Italian
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Spanish
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(With content tropicalized for Latinoamérica, México and Spain)
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Russian,
Chinese,
Japanese
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Polish and
Korean
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. Porsche sends most of its customer magazines to the USA, Germany and China. Number 371 marked the first time that a figure of 500,000 copies had been exceeded for a single issue.
Since summer 2013, all articles from the current issue have been published on the Porsche AG website successively every two weeks. Earlier issues can also be found here in an online archive.
articles of Christophorus magazine (language: German)
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References
External links
Porsche Newsroom
Christophorus
bei Porsche.com
Consumer magazines
Automobile magazines published in Germany
Magazines established in 1952
Multilingual magazines
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