The crash also showed that the track's distances were too long for regular fire engines and ambulances, even though the " ONS-Staffel " was equipped with a Porsche 911 rescue car, marked ( R ).

Porsche also may have feared that the U. S. government would soon ban the sale of rear-engined cars in response to the consumer concern over safety problems with the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair.

This model is also sometimes referred to as the " Ferry Porsche Edition " because his signature was embroidered into the front seats.

Porsche Engineering Group also helped Harley-Davidson design the Revolution 60-degree v-twin water-cooled engine and gearbox that is used in their V-Rod motorcycle.

Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes.

With 12. 8 percent of the Porsche voting shares, he also remains the second largest individual shareholder of Porsche AG after his cousin, F. A. Porsche, ( 13. 6 percent ).

The company has always had a close relationship with, initially, the Volkswagen ( VW ) marque, and later, the Volkswagen Group ( which also owns Audi AG ), because the first Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Porsche 944s were also built there, although they used far fewer Volkswagen components.

Ferdinand Piëch and his cousin, Wolfgang Porsche, also seemed to be on a collision course.

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.

In the late 2009 VW ( which also owns Audi ) bought the controlling rights to Porsche.

Jeff May was also one of the founding members of Porsche Club Great Britain.

In addition, Porsche installed manually adjustable lightweight Recaro racing seats rather than the standard power-operated leather buckets ( also manufactured by Recaro ), a revised suspension system optimized and lowered by 20 mm for possible track use, 17-inch wheels ( also slightly wider to accommodate wider tyres ) rather than the 16-inch as found on the Coupe and wider tires, 225 front and 255 rears rather than 205 and 245 respectively.

The 968 was also the last Porsche sold with a four-cylinder engine ( Final year 1995 ).

To bring 912 pricing close to the 356, Porsche also deleted some features standard on the 911.

In January 1968, Porsche also made available a Targa ' Version II ' option (' hard window Targa ') with fixed glass rear window, transforming the Targa into a coupe with removable roof.

Sold to the public for street use, the Porsche 912 has also proven successful as a race car, from production years to current vintage events.

Valmet Automotive also manufactured Boxsters under contract to Porsche at a facility in Uusikaupunki, Finland.

Paul was also associated with Bill Freeman ’ s established Porsche racing team which allowed both Paul and Bill to compete in S. C. C. A.

The American Le Mans Series also runs a " GT-Challenge " class, which currently only uses Porsche 911 GT3 Cups but will open to other cars next year.

During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car, because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy.

In 1984 VW decided to stop manufacturing the engine blocks used in the 2. 0 924, leaving Porsche with a predicament.

With unfavourable exchange rates in the late 1980s, Porsche decided to focus its efforts on its more upmarket models, dropping the 924S for 1989 and the base 944 later that same year.

Concerned that the considerable price increase of a Type 911 with " flat " six-cylinder powerplant over the Type 356 would cost the company sales and narrow brand appeal, Porsche executives decided to introduce a new four-cylinder entry-level model.

Inspired by the Porsche 356 which was created by Ferry Porsche, and some spyder prototypes built and raced by Walter Glöckler starting in 1951, the factory decided to build a car designed for use in auto racing.

It was therefore decided that the Porsche chassis were to be used as the basis of a new heavy tank destroyer, mounting Krupp's newly developed 88 mm Pak 43 / 2 anti-tank gun.

Driving a very low Porsche 550 Spyder, Herrmann decided it was too late for a brake attempt anyway, knocked on the back of the helmet of his navigator Herbert Linge to make him duck, and they barely passed below the gates and before the train, to the surprise of the spectators.

The DRM was a drivers championship, and with equal Porsche customer machinery, no driver could dominate, with meant that despite the customer 934 of 1976 and the 935 since 1977 dominating their Division, the championship was often decided in favour of a small Division pilot.

Due to lack of competition in 1976, Porsche decided not to defend its sportscar championship, leaving it to the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33.

At this stage, the company leaders had decided to neglect the 15-year-old 911, Porsche had introduced the water-cooled front engine Porsche 928 and Porsche 924 models, similar to Volkswagen, which had replaced the Beetle with the Golf.

There were no changes in the driver market, but the Footwork team had decided to abandon the disastrous Porsche V12 engine project and went back to Ford engines while Ferrari introduced a new car, the 643.

He was the reigning World Endurance Champion, but decided against driving for the Porsche factory team in 1985, to concentrate on Formula 1, but was still driving in various WEC races for the private Brun team.

Driving a very low Porsche 550 Spyder, Herrmann decided it was too late for a brake attempt anyway, knocked on the back of the helmet of his navigator Herbert Linge to make him duck, and they barely passed below the gates and before the train, to the surprise of the spectators.

Donohue, Penske, and Porsche decided to set their goals very high with the 917-30.

The car producer Porsche AG ( Germany ) has decided to start its own import company in Switzerland during 2008.

Ford engineers working on the MN12 program also explored the use of all-wheel drive for the platform with Ford going so far as paying German automaker Porsche to study the feasibility of its use, but Kuchta ultimately decided against it out of cost concerns.

Ferdinand and his son Ferry Porsche decided to redesign the car from the ground up to be built internally by Porsche.

The Activa 2 was considered for production as a successor to the SM, but it was eventually decided that Citroën's image would make it too hard to compete with prestigious marques such as Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in the luxury 2-seat coupe market.

A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.

This design marked a major change in direction for Porsche ( started with the introduction of the Porsche 924 in 1976 ), whose cars had until then used only rear-or mid-mounted air-cooled flat engines with four or six cylinders.

The two companies collaborated in 1969 to make the VW-Porsche 914 and 914-6, whereby the 914-6 had a Porsche engine, and the 914 had a Volkswagen engine, in 1976 with the Porsche 912E ( USA only ) and the Porsche 924, which used many Audi components, and was built at Audi's Neckarsulm factory.

The Porsche 924 is a Sports car produced by Porsche AG of Germany from 1976 to 1988.

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.

1977 – 1982 Porsche 924 ( Australia )

Porsche made small improvements to the 924 each model year between 1977 and 1985, but nothing major was changed on non-turbo cars.

J. Pasha, writing in Excellence magazine, at the time, described the 924 as " the best handling Porsche in stock form ".

Porsche 924 from 1976

Porsche executives soon recognized the need for a higher-performance version of the 924 that could bridge the gap between the basic 924 and the 911s.

Having already found the benefits of turbochargers on several race cars and the 1975 911 Turbo, Porsche chose to use this technology for the 924, eventually introducing the 924 Turbo as a 1978 model.

To fix the problems, Porsche released a revised 924 Turbo series 2 ( although badging still read 924 Turbo ) in 1979.

After a successful sales run of both naturally aspirated and turbo models, in 1980 Porsche surprised everyone and release the 924 Carrera GT, making clear their intention to enter the 924 in competition.

By adding an intercooler, increasing compression to 8. 5: 1 as well as various other little changes, Porsche was able to develop the 924 Turbo into the race car they had wanted, dubbing it the 924 Carrera GT.

In 1980 Porsche entered three 924 GTRs at the 24hrs of Le Mans, which went on to finish 6th, 12th and 13th overall.

Lastly, in 1981 Porsche entered 1 of 2 specially built 924 Carrera GTP's ( Aka: 944GTP Le Mans ) which Porsche Motorsports introduced a new prototype highly modified 2. 5 liter I4 engine.