Porsche 928 S4 rear

The Porsche 928 is a sports-GT car that was sold by Porsche AG of Germany from 1978 to 1995.

Originally intended to replace the company's iconic 911, the 928 combined the power, poise, and handling of a sports car with the refinement, comfort, and equipment of a luxury sedan to create what some Porsche executives thought would be a vehicle with wider appeal than the compact, quirky and sometimes difficult 911.

Since its inception in 1949, Porsche has manufactured only six front-engined models, four of which were coupes, including the 928.

Ordered by Ferry Porsche to come up with a production-feasible concept for his new model, Fuhrmann initiated a design study in 1971, eventually taking from the process the final specs for the 928.

Porsche engineers wanted a large-displacement motor to power the 928, and prototype units were built with a 5. 0 L V8 producing close to.

Porsche 928 S4 interior

Porsche utilized a transaxle in the 928 to help achieve 50 / 50 front / rear weight distribution, aiding the car's balance.

Porsche 928 GTS rear quarter view

Porsche introduced a refreshed 928 S into the European market in 1979 model year, although it was summer of 1982 and MY 1983 before the model reached North America.

Porsche updated the North American 928 S for 1985, replacing the 4. 7 L SOHC engine with a new 5. 0 L DOHC unit sporting four valves per cylinder and producing 288 hp ( 215 kW / 292 PS ).

Porsche debuted the 928 GT in the late winter 1988 / 89 after dropping the slowly selling CS and SE.

Porsche 928 V8 engine

In production terms, the 924 was the first Porsche model powered by a water-cooled, front-mounted engine although the similarly configured 928 was designed first.

Porsche 924 928 944.

* Porsche 924 928 944, " The New Generation ".

As of 2009, Porsche has not yet built another front-engined sports car, although a 4-door sports-touring sedan, called Panamera began production in 2009, and a successor to the 928, based on that sedan's architecture, is predicted to follow.

Production of the 986 began at the former Porsche 928 facility in Stuttgart, Germany in 1996.

* September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention.

DeLorean's vision has been further vindicated by the adoption of similar designs in a slew of modern high-performance cars, including the Porsche 928, the Corvette C5, and the Aston Martin DB9.

As he was training for a rematch with Laporte set for September, he crashed on the early morning of August 12, 1982, while driving his Porsche 928 sports car along the federal highway from Santiago de Querétaro to San Luis Potosí, dying instantly.

It is the first V8-engined vehicle built by Porsche since 1995, when the Porsche 928 was discontinued.

The overall styling was created by Dutchman Harm Lagaay, a member of the Porsche styling team, with the hidden headlights, sloping bonnet line and grille-less nose giving the car its popular wedge shape.

The car's designers had intended that the headlights could be retracted, with the lenses facing skyward when not in use ; a similar arrangement was used many years later on the Porsche 928.

These cars had the same headlights as the Porsche Boxster.

Initially, Porsche ran the 935 with the 911's original fender-mounted headlights, in two different guises: a sprint version with a wider version of its wheel arches, and a high speed version with modified aerodynamics.

However, after carefully studying the rulebooks, Porsche engineers, namely Norbert Singer, discovered a loophole regarding the modifications of fenders that gave them the liberty to remove the headlights to reduce drag and create more downforce, to which the venting slits contribute.

The front end of a 911 GT1 ' 98, showing the headlights inspired by the Porsche 996 | 996-generation 911.

Major changes to the standard TR7 Hardtop were the addition of a MG type grille to the nose panel, headlights similar to those of a Porsche 928 and a new tail panel with light units from a Rover SD1.

Other options include active shock absorbers ( ThyssenKrupp Bilstein GmbH's DampTronic, rebadged as PASM by Porsche ), ceramic disc brakes ( PCCB ), xenon headlights ( Hella's Bi-Xenon ) and an electronically controlled sport mode ( Sport Chrono Package ).

Police reported that Garrido was driving a Porsche Cayenne west on 6th Street at about 1: 00 a. m., when a DWI enforcement officer pulled the coach over since he did not have his headlights on.