Porsche 911


Porsche 911

The Porsche 911, just as "Nine Eleven" or only "penalty", is the most popular sports car from Porsche and is considered the epitome of this brand.

It was 1963 at the IAA in Frankfurt am Main as the successor of the Porsche 356 presented with the name Porsche 901. Due to legal claims from nameless Peugeot, mean zero replaced by a one, so the car in 1964 as a Porsche 911 on the market came.

When 911 is a typical 2 2-seater sports car. It is powered by a six-cylinder boxer engine design, which is located in the rear of the car. This type of rear engine is also found in more conventional vehicles, such as the VW Beetle and the Porsche 356 back. The car has generally rear wheel drive (Carrera), where, since 1989, vehicles with four-wheel drive (Carrera 4). The top model of the Porsche 911 since 1995, the weight-optimized and performance-enhanced 911-turbo 911 GT2 derivative undergoes dar. The engine here, as the turbo a charge by two turbochargers.

The 911 is offered in the coupe body versions, Targa and Cabriolet. In the years 1989 to 1993, the car was in a roadster-like variant, which at Porsche since the 356 published in 1955 called the "Speedster" is distributed.

The Porsche 911 and its offshoots such as the Porsche Models 934 and 935 were in the past successfully used as a racing car. There are 911 cars on the basis mainly in branded cups as the Carrera Cup in use.

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Genesis

In the late 1950s began to develop a successor to the Porsche 356, since it was made virtually unchanged since 1950 and no longer the prior period. Above all, the four-cylinder boxer engine was by design no longer develop, manufacture and cost recovery. He was with two liters at the end of its displacement and power development.

Porsche 911 - racing street carThe new model should the elderly be 356 superior in all areas, without abandoning the typical Porsche Design. As head of the Porsche car body construction department was first appointed Erwin Komenda, Porsche to develop the design of the type nine hundred and first At the same time also developed Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (Ferdinand Jr., called "Butzi"), the son of the founder, Ferry Porsche, a design model of the new car, where he had to stick to the few requirements, including wheelbase not more than 2, 20 m, engine and drive back. With minor degradation in the wheelbase (2.27 m) he succeeded. In this case both designs inspired by her designs. Finally got the design of Ferdinand junior the bid because of this the character of a Porsche automobile best met and the relationship to the 356 was easy to spot.

The new car was over the 356 larger dimensions and especially larger windows, which helped to improved visibility. The interior design has been revised to comply with the spirit of the 1960s. In addition to more modern technology, the drive was the most fundamental change the new car. This had taken a four-cylinder is now a six-cylinder boxer engine that 1/min of two liters at 6100 an output of 96 kW (130 PS) provided, and had a fuel consumption of about 13.5 liters per 100 km. This air-cooled engine with dry sump lubrication engine already had the unmistakable sound of the 911 Responsible for the development of the legendary Porsche engine is the former Porsche engine boss Hans Mezger, later including the Porsche 917 and the TAG-McLaren engine constructed, which won the English racing team three times Formula 1 World Championship.

Model Development

The Porsche 911 was during his more than forty year history of continuous development.