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4:11 Ultimate Cars: Power - Porsche 911 Turbo
With one of the first turbocharged engines on the market, the 911 Turbo is the definition of a power car, hard to handle but fast as lightening.
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to be put into production with a turbocharged engine. What this enabled Porsche to do was to provide a super car power, the sort of power in the relatively compact dimensions of the Porsche 911 , which made the car much more usable. But it also was simply the most challenging car you could buy.
Well, the Porsche 911 Turbo is the car for you.
often than not, downright dangerous, but none more so than the 1975 Porsche 911 Turbo. It is a balls-to-the-wall car to drive and it takes no prisoners.
Porsche 911 is particularly once of that era and earlier. Whatever is powering them are a challenge to drive, and they do not suffer
It's no surprise that the 911 is so appealing to those of a thrill-seeking nature because the car's turbo technology was derived from this, the Porsche 917, the world's ultimate racing car. Now, a supercharger is driven from the crankshaft, and uses gears or pistons to force air
negative when you're talking about power cars. You may have noticed the Porsche is a rear-mounted engine. That's 60% of the car's weight hanging over the rear axle, which means if you take a corner too quickly, the back of the car will try to keep going in a straight line, and you'll end up flying off the road. That's a bad thing. And this is the reason why every 911 driver should remember the following mantra, slow in, fast out.
The upside of the rear engine of the Porsche is that you can get phenomenal attraction as you actually exit a corner, and so, hence the mantra slow in, fast out.
5:03 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Porsche 917
The most powerful road racing car ever built, the 917's secret was two 911 engines strapped together!
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Porsche achieved these mind-boggling figures by sticking 2 6-cylinder 2.2-liter engines from the Porsche 911 together. That's right, 2 911 engines rammed together. Now, rumor has it that this Frankenstein monster of an engine was air cooled because Volkswagen had funded 2/3
How could the number 1 ultimate racer be anythin' other than the Porsche 917? It is the fastest car to win Le Mans. And its final incarnation, its 1100 brake-horsepower engine made it the most
I have a very nice experience with the Porsche . I took my mother and the first time she was in what I call a really strong racing car and I took
you're a driver or an engineer, which is why all of the Porsche racing team drivers were too scared to take the car out on the track.
inches of the rear and ei-- voila! A racing legend was born. Porsche returned to Le Mans in 1970 and did nothing less than annihilate the field, but their glory year was the legendary Le Mans of '71. This year, Ferrari had built a series of cars as a direct response to the 917's and once again, Porsche simply destroyed the competition, as well as set in a world-record for the fastest time and the most distance covered at the
5:19 Greatest Ever Sports Cars - No. 1 - Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is the greatest sports car ever made!
5:21 Top Marques - Porsche - The Soul of the 911
The Porsche 911 has been in production for over 40 years. From the Classic to the GT3 it's still a 911 .
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The Porsche 911 GT3, one of the fastest current versions of the 911 model line.
And except for Porsche , no other car company building a car based on a design dating all the way back to 1963.
call it Carrera, which is synonym for power, for extra, and for Porsche . We have the Turbo, and I think, if you have the Turbo, then you have the top of all 911 that is impressive, that special.
A Porsche in the 1980s, actually as far back as the 70s, they were going to kill off the 911 . And there was a huge contingent within the company, including Ferry Porsche , that was very passionate about the car.
Ironically, today's 911 owes part of its continued existence to something Porsche purist never thought they'd ever see, a Porsche SUV. But the upscale Porsche Cayenne represents a full third of all Porsche sales in the US.
was also one of the rules that the Cayenne must be a Porsche . It doesn't look like it is, but it is a Porsche .
It may be an SUV, but the Cayenne is definitely all Porsche . The Turbo S blasts from 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds and tops out at 168 miles an hour. Still, to some of the Porsche faithful, the only car that truly represents the brand is the venerable 911 .
New generation of Porsche fans has been created by two entry level cars, the mid-engined Porsche Boxster and Cayman. With base prices starting in mid-forties, both cars are selling well in America.
Now there's another front-engined Porsche on the horizon: The Panamera, a 4-door, 4-passenger sports sedan aimed directly at BMW, Mercedes, and Maserati.
It's the same people that are working on 911 , the same people working on the Panamera, and you can be sure that you'll have still the Porsche feeling.
5:06 Top Marques - Porsche - A Company of Evolution
Dr Ferdinand Porsche designed both the first electric and also the first hybrid cars but he is most famous for his Volkswagaen Beetle. His legacy continues with the Porsche 911 , designed by his son, Ferry Porsche .
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of evolution of the brand begins in 1961 when Ferdinand's son, Ferry Porsche , creates the Porsche 911 , a car that is still being built today, a car that's never forgotten where it came from or why.
The name is Porsche , not
but there's absolutely no confusion about the remarkable legacy of Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and how it continues to influence the creation of some of the greatest sports cars in the world.
people know; the year is 1900 and a 24-year-old engineer named Ferdinand Porsche designs the world's first electric car. Like the majority of Dr. Porsche's designs, his idea of eliminating the need for a transmission by positioning electric motors inside each wheel hub stands the test of
In 1900, Dr. Porsche adds a small combustion engine to his electric car and creates the world's first hybrid.
It was also the beginning of motorsports, and Porsche said he wanted to show how competitive is his car, and Ferdinand Porsche drove it by himself, and he drove it in his race and he won it.
Ironically, the world's first hybrid is only a footnote to the Porsche's story. The first major headline comes in 1931. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche is hired to design the people's car or what, in German, simply translates to Volkswagen.
and it was his idea, and we still are using his philosophy. Porsche , like 911 , 356; it starts as a real engine.
Porsche is a company that didn't just change for the sake of change. It evolved.
it's family lineage in its character. Everything about this car is evolutionary. 911 started in 1963 at the Frankfurt Motor Show as a 901, and with Peugeot contesting the zero in the middle of the name and saying that they are the only brand that can use that, Porsche relented and so they put a 1 in its place; what became a 911 . In recent years, Porsche adds an SUV, the Cayenne, to its product line as well as 2 entry-level models, the mid-engined Boxster and Cayman. They also produced a limited run of the Carrera GT, a mid-engined V10, just to prove that Porsche can build a super car.
all. That was the plan and said it's a special period of Porsche ; finished now and so 911 again. It's the newest 911 in town. We call it Type 997; last one was 996. It's more than ever a typical 911 . It's the sound and the feeling of handling. It's still a 911 .
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