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1900 Lohner-Porsche Hybrid With its future-oriented electric motors in the wheel hubs, the Lohner-Porsche was acknowledged as the absolute sensation at the Paris World Fair in 1900. On loan from the Technical Museum in Vienna, Austria, this outstanding achievement in technology protected today as a universal monument will be seen...
1901 Lohner-Porsche Phaeton Ferdinand Porsche landed his first technical job working for Jacob Lohner in 1900. Thier first car, the System Lohner-Porsche, used wheel mounted electric motors. Later cars used Daimler derived motors to power the electric engines. These systems were very elegant solutions as they did not use drive...
This isn't technically a Speedster, but the Type 540 (Typ 540 K/9-1 to be very precise) - known more commonly as the America Roadster - started the idea. The American Roadster was the direct predecessor of the Speedster. U.S. importer Max Hoffman convinced Porsche it needed a lightweight convertible to compete. It only had an emergency folding roof and could keep up with larger sports cars of the era. But the production methods used to create the America Roadster’s aluminum body proved to be too expensive, and in 1952 Porsche built only 21 units before its discontinuation in 1953.
February 1, 1954, the city of New York. The Porsche-550, chassis 04 returned from the Gulf of Mexico after participating in the Carrera Panamericana rally, which took place from November 19 to 23, 1953 through Mexico. Near the car are left-right: Herbert Linge, Karl Kling, Werner Engel, Hans Herrmann No...
1972 Porsche RSR 911
When the idea came up of producing a series of race cars for the mainly-amateur racers who drove such GT vehicles in the early 1970s, the factory management was skeptical as to whether it would prove to be a profitable venture. After all, the factory had been in this line...
1974 Porsche RS 3.0 Carrera
Chassis No: 911 460 9029 Engine No: 684 0053 Prod. No: 104 2302 G/box No: 716 1222 (15/1) Colour: White/Gold First delivered to: Sonauto Dealership , Paris, France Aluminum roll bar fitted First registered as: 556 ACR 75 Awaiting the start of the 1974 edition of the Tour de France...
In 1985, Porsche prepared 16 prototypes for road testing. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....
2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupé The sixth generation 911 was revealed 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show as an all-new model. It sports a longer wheel base, seven-speed gearbox and more efficient 3.8-liter flat-6. The S version gets 50 more horsepower than the standard model through a larger engine and Porsche...
2013 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet Stuttgart. The dynamic range of the new 911 Turbo models1) multiplied by the driving pleasure offered by an open-top sports car: This is the succinct formula behind the two new leading 911 Cabriolet models. Some 50 years after the 911 first made its début and...
991.1 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS (Ultimate Guide) The GTS is the fastest, most athletic model in the 911 Carrera line up. If you want even more responsive handling from your 911 you’ll have to look to the GT3 or GT3 RS, and if you’re after even more straight-line performance you’ll...
A design that demonstrates sportiness in every fibre. A chassis equipped for any challenge. And a twin-turbo horizontally opposed engine that brings racetrack performance to the road.  Combined fuel consumption in accordance with EU 6: 911 GTS models: 9.7-8.3 l/100 km, CO2 emissions: 220-188 g/km. Learn more about the features...
2025 Porsche 911 GTS Hybrid front
Whether it was the news you were dreading or the news you looked forward to—or perhaps it simply piqued your non-partisan interest—the Porsche 911 hybrid is now officially here. This latest bombshell announcement coincides with the German automaker’s official unveiling of the 992-generation’s mid-life refresh, conventionally referred to as the...
A New Era for Porsche Performance “We are in the GT business,” said Porsche racing engineer Norbert Singer, “so we will make one.” That was in the summer of 1995 when Porsche responded to the revival of interest in GT-class racing and the challenge of the McLaren F1 by starting...
JLP-4 Porsche 935 in Miller High Life livery on pavement
There are 935s, and then there are 935s… Although almost a hundred Porsche 935s were built between 1975 and 1984, with the factory building some forty two cars and customers building the remainder, JLP-4 was by far the most radical of the Group 5 breed. No Subscription? You’re missing out...
Yes, It’s For Sale…. However, the allocation for MY2018 units was already spoken for before this calendar year – all 6 of them, each costing $1.18 million USD. Even Porsche’s head of Motorsport, Dr. Frank Walliser, has been surprised by the level of public consumer demand for the car –...
Buchmann took a Porsche 928, removed all of the "unwanted" crap behind the doors and parts of the roof and created the stunning Buchmann Targa. This is a Targa convertible with an open roof above the seats but still with the B-pillar in tact. This opening is bridged by a Targa-bar which gives the car extra stiffness to compensate for the loss of it by removing the roof. The concept was a stunner.
For testing purposes Porsche Motorsport built a few tarmac rally cars based on the Cayman 981 GT4 racing version. The Cayman rally car was the course car for the WRC (World Rally Championship) 2018 ADAC Rallye Deutschland. The FIA R-GT Cup was contested on tarmac rounds of the ERC and WRC, like the German WRC event. For Porsche, the entry of a concept study based on the near-production GT circuit race car was a critical test under real conditions.
Story by Greg James. Photos by Dan O’Connell. I love reading road tests. Especially those that involve shootouts when cars are pitted against each other. However, in the traditional automotive rags that get their revenues from advertisers, it’s often comical how close any number of performance cars finish points-wise when...
Dauer 962 Le Mans (1994) In the late nineties, bringing prototype racecars to urban roadways was an idea that several companies shared. Considering the contrast between sports car and race car engineering, embarking on such a project was a laborious task. Coupled with the limited production and tiny customer base,...
Dauer 962LM Design and aerodynamics — Motorsports Design Consultants (MDC) Ltd Composite body — Lola Composites Prototyp (ex 962-133) No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....
Lined up in the pit lane before the 1994 Le Mans 24-Hours, is from the left: #36 962 Dauer Le Mans GT driven by Mauri Baldi, Yannick Dalmas and Hurley Haywood; centre is the street-legal 962 Dauer with rather appropriate Boeblingen region (Weissach) registration plate ‘P 962’; on the right...
2025 Porsche 992.2 911 Carrera
Earlier this morning, Porsche unveiled the first models of the new Type 992.2 911, the Carrera Cabriolet and Coupe, and the Carrera GTS T-Hybrid. However, when something is all-new and upgraded, one question always comes up: What, exactly, is all-new and upgraded on the 992? Fret not, for we have...
Red Porsche RSR "Ratt"
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got my head down, researching various projects for clients, usually to do with Porsches—although Lola T70s and the like often pass my way too. Probably the most interesting project that I’ve...