Embarrassingly, I did not pay attention to the details in the logo, shame on me owning a Porsche, so blind...just thinking it's family crest with some mythical animal....Everyone loves a black Prancing Horse :)
...that includes Italian WWI pilot Francesco Baracca adopting a horse logo seen on the plane of a defeated German pilot from Stuttgart. And Ferrari adopted it in tribute to Baracca. If that version is true, then we're really talking about the same extreme...