h. c. F. Porsche AG becoming a holding company, renamed " Porsche Automobil Holding SE ", and a new Dr Ing.

Volkswagen will initially take a 49. 9 percent stake in Porsche AG by the end of 2009, and it will also see the family shareholders selling the automobile trading business of Porsche Holding Salzburg to Volkswagen AG.

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

Porsche SE is headquartered in Zuffenhausen, a city district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg and is owned by the Piëch and Porsche families, and Qatar Holdings, through the Qatar Investment Authority ( 10 %).

In August 2009, Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG reached an agreement that the two companies would merge in 2011, to form an " Integrated Automotive Group ".

During December 2009, Porsche SE lost control of Porsche Zwischenholding GmbH, which as a result is now a joint venture between Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG.

As of July 5, 2012, Volkswagen is to acquire the 50. 1 per cent in Porsche's capital that it doesn't already hold from holding company Porsche SE for € 4. 46 billion plus one Volkswagen share.

Porsche SE owned 50. 8 percent of Volkswagen Group as of 5 January 2009, and has said it plans to lift the stake to 75 percent before the end of 2009, at that level they could bring VW AG's cash onto Porsche's books.

By March 2009, Porsche SE was aiming for its first ever credit ratings from U. S. rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

Figures from 2008 / 9 onwards were not reported as part of Porsche SE.

It was faster than an Aston Martin Virage, a Ferrari Testarossa, Lotus Esprit Turbo SE and Porsche Carrera 2 the supercars of the early 1990s.

In 1993, Porsche Motorsports at Weissach briefly produced a turbocharged 968 Turbo S, a fairly odd naming choice for Porsche which usually reserves the added " S " moniker for models that have been tuned for more power over a " lesser " counterpart, such as with the 911 Turbo.

** 8. 8 cm – 80 rounds ( Porsche turret ), 86 rounds ( Henschel turret ), usually 50 % PzGr 39 / 43 and 50 % SprGr 43, sometimes with a limited number of PzGr 40 / 43, or with the SprGr replaced with HlGr

* Luxury cars with numeric names are often registered with a matching, usually pre-reserved sequence number: for example < tt > 06-D-911 </ tt > on a Porsche 911 or < tt > 06-D-750 </ tt > BMW 750 and < tt > 08-D-89 </ tt > for an Aston Martin DB9.

The 930 ( usually pronounced nine-thirty ) was a sports car built by Porsche, 930 actually being the " type number " for the pre-964 generation 911 Turbo produced between 1975 and 1989.

After Group 5 was discontinued by FIA after 1982, the 935 continued to race in IMSA's GTP category, usually entered by smaller privateer names, who were not permitted by IMSA regulations to race the new Group C Porsche 956 because of the footbox location relative to the front axle ( footbox was ahead, in violation of the IMSA rule where it must be behind the front axle ).

Cars in this category were previously heavily modified versions of road cars, usually supercars such as the McLaren F1 and Ferrari F40, but when the 911 GT1 was uneveiled in 1996 Porsche had exploited the rule book to the full and stunned the sportscar fraternity.

Editors & writers of the international editions are usually invited for test drives by many performance car companies, from major marques such as Porsche, to small supercar builders such as Pagani and Gumpert.

He adopted the yuppie lifestyle, and by the late 80's he not only had a luxurious apartment, a Japanese sports car ( a Toyota Supra — he despised the Porsche that many other yuppies drove at that time ), but also a mobile phone, which before the 90's was a luxury item usually associated with jet-set lifestyle.

April 5, a scheduled sports car event ( shortened to by darkness ) was won by Roberto Mieres and Fritz d ' Orey, who shared a Porsche RSK, which proved more durable than more potent competition.

Shadow came to dominate the shortened 1974 series, although by this point they were competing largely against privateers, the works McLaren and Porsche efforts having left the series.

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.

In 1967 the 912 contributed to Porsche factory rally history when independent driver Sobiesław Zasada drove a factory-loaned 912, race No. 47 and plate 6177 KR, to capture the European Rally Championship for Group 1 series touring cars.

In the European series in which endurance is a priority and P2s have been run largely by privateers, P2s have not challenged P1s for outright victories ; in the American Le Mans Series with generally shorter races P2 has become the most active prototype category with serious involvement from Porsche and Acura and whereas P2 in Europe tends to involve races of attrition, in the US series the P2s, particularly the Porsche RS Spyder are often quicker round a lap than P1s, with the Porsche having scored many overall victories against the Audis in P1.

Especially the Austrian sole distributor Porsche Salzburg ( now Porsche Austria ) seriously entered the Volkswagen in local and European contests in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Other European OEM standards are from General Motors ( dexos ), the Ford " WSS " standards, BMW Special Oils and BMW Longlife standards, Porsche, and the PSA Group of Peugeot and Citroën.

These systems are more typically utilized by European auto manufacturers such as Jaguar and Porsche.

His father, Pauli Toivonen, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his brother, Harri Toivonen, became a professional circuit racer.

He was linked to the lead drive at the Peugeot Talbot Sport, Peugeot's new factory World Rally Championship team, but eventually signed to drive a Porsche 911 SC RS for the Rothmans-sponsored Porsche factory team in the European Rally Championship.

His European season with Porsche turned out to be a success.

Similar to designs of European cars such as Porsche, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and others it used coil springs at all four wheels with independent rear suspension arms incorporated at the rear.

The RS 60 also ensured that Porsche successfully defended their European Hill Climb Championship for the third year in a row.

Porsche would go on to win a European Hill Climb Championship every year until 1982, a total of 42 titles.

The engine regularly fitted was the 901 / 20 6-cylinder lightweight racing engine with 220 hp and carburetors, although some examples that were raced by the factory team received fuel-injected or 8-cylinder engines, especially in hillclimbing events where Porsche competed with Ferrari Dinos for the European championship.

During that period, European firms such as Magirus-Deutz built air-cooled diesel trucks, Porsche built air-cooled farm tractors, and Volkswagen became famous with air-cooled passenger cars.

In 1992, Porsche produced a super-lightweight, rear-wheel-drive only version of the 964 dubbed Carrera RS for the European market.

Other common European entries include Alfa Romeo Giuliettas, Jaguar E-types, Porsche 356s & 911s.

Early European fastback automobiles include: Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic, Tatra T87, Porsche 356, Saab 92 / 96, Standard Vanguard, GAZ-M20 Pobeda, and Bentley Continental R-Type.

In 1984, Richards brought together Rothmans and Porsche and took his next major step in motorsport management, creating Prodrive to engineer and run the newly formed Rothmans Porsche Rally Team in the European and Middle East Rally Championships.

Company leader Ferry Porsche took his son's drawings to neighboring chassis manufacturer Reuter.

The company is global brand allied with the Ford Motor Company ( Getrag Ford Transmissions, Getrag Asia Pacific ), but supplies transmissions to most auto manufacturers, including General Motors, Daimler AG, Ferrari, Fiat, Porsche, BMW ( Mini ), Toyota, Mitsubishi, and the Volkswagen Group.

* 2nd edition catalogue 1961-C58 Cooper Car Company, C59 BRM, C60 Jaguar D-type, C61 Porsche Spyder

The company later added Mazda Motor Company, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors, General Motors, Daihatsu, Hino Motors, FIAT, Volvo, Jeep, and Porsche.

When he moved the Company to Stratford upon Avon at Christmas 1976 it became a Nissan dealer and then a Toyota dealer ( both Mike Grimes ); since then it has been a Porsche dealer.