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Best Driving Road in the World?

50 Years and counting Fifty years of Turbo – the model designation that has produced some of the most capable and iconic sports cars in history – and 50 years since the opening of the Transfăgărășan Highway, often claimed ‘best driving road in the world’. Porsche holds a special event...

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Live stream event: 75 Years of Porsche sports cars

75 years of challenges and success Porsche is celebrating a success story that is characterized by a pioneering spirit, engineering acumen, and courage. 75 years ago, Ferry Porsche realized his dream of a sports car. With the Porsche 356 No.1 Roadster, he and his team laid the foundation for the...

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Porsche celebrates “50 years of the 917”

50 years of the Porsche 917 Anniversary The most famous racing car of all time made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show on 12 March 1969, and the Porsche Museum is celebrating the landmark birthday with plans to restore the first 917 ever made to its original condition, as...

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Porsche 917 turns 50 years in 2019

1969 Porsche 917 LH poses outside the workshops in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen © Porsche Werkfoto The world has become obsessed with anniversaries or facts that you can leverage, in order to bring your message across. And that is also true to some extent about this account of a legendary race car, but...

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Porsche’s 70th anniversary – we look back 40 years to 1978

The Porsche 928 was launched in 1978 – this is a 1980 model The Porsche company, now 30 years old in 1978, had moved from being the small-scale manufacturing company to being a significant player, albeit in a niche market. The front-engined transaxle 924 model, introduced in 1976, was now...

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Porsche’s 70th anniversary – we look back 30 years to 1988

Type 964 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 retained much of its original 1963 styling (1989MY) Last month we looked at some of Porsche’s milestones around the time of the company’s 50th anniversary in 1998. This month we track back a further ten years to 1988, and we look back 30 years...

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Porsche 917 at 40

Porsche 917 Turns 40 Porsche launched the 917 40 years ago and it’s still their most important racecar to date. This dangerous, yet successful machine gave Porsche victory at Le Mans and all the other international races of its time. Porsche started their long 917 race program in 1969 with a...

996 Turbo: Champion of a New Era

Le Mans 2025: Ferrari Wins, But Porsche Made Them Work for It

Porsche 993 Mid-Engine ‘Fabcar’: Fueled By Innovation

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