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In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).
In 1970, the revised Porsche 917 dominated, and the GT40 had become obsolete.
By the late 1960s, Porsche had changed significantly as a company, and executives including owner Ferdinand Porsche were playing with the idea of adding a luxury touring car to the line-up.
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.
Porsche commissioned a Zuffenhausen-based company, Reutter Karosserie, which had previously collaborated with the firm on Volkswagen Beetle prototypes, to produce the 356's steel body.
The first Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of Porsche AG was Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, who had been working in the company's engine development.
As of June 2006, the Porsche AG stake in VW AG had risen to 25. 1 %, giving Porsche a blocking minority, whereby Porsche can veto large corporate decisions undertaken by VW AG.
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.
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.
As Porsche had no strategic interest in the company, on 19 January, they offered the minimum price in that mandatory takeover bid.
The front-engine, rear wheel drive arrangement was normal for most other manufacturers, but it was unusual for Porsche having previously only used mid-or rear-mounted engines of a boxer configuration, all of which had been air-cooled.
Internally, Porsche called it 931 ( left hand drive ) and 932 ( right hand drive ), much like the 911 Carrera Turbo, which had been " Type 930 ".
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.
Production was moved from the Audi plant in Neckarsulm ( where the 924 and 944 had been manufactured under contract to Porsche ), to Porsche's own factory in Zuffenhausen.
After updating the 911 line-up to include both a more powerful 911S and a less expensive 911T, Porsche executives began to feel that the 912 had become redundant, that the 911 platform was sufficiently diverse and that pricing had largely come into line with market expectations.

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The combustion chambers were developed in collaboration with Porsche.
Project C, which has come to be known as the Lada 2116 or Lada Silhouette, is a family car jointly developed with input from both Porsche and Renault, is intended to finally replace the Classic models.
The Lada Samara was partly developed by Porsche in 1984.
The Porsche 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle.
Porsche also developed the Maus super-heavy tank in the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes.
In 1931, Ferdinand Porsche developed the Porsche Type 12, or " Auto für Jedermann " ( car for everybody ) for Zündapp.
Its platform was developed by Porsche and is shared with the Volkswagen Touareg and the Audi Q7.
In 1900, Ferdinand Porsche developed a series-hybrid using two motor-in-wheel-hub arrangements with a combustion generator set providing the electric power, setting two speed records.
In 1934 he joined the Porsche construction office and developed the air-cooled opposed four-cylinder engine for the Volkswagen basing his design on Kales ’ s opposed four-cylinder engine for the NSU prototype.
The 695 was developed from the Porsche 356 by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and has a wheelbase that is longer ( up to longer in early designs ).
Initially fitted with a 4-cylinder engine, the car was later fitted with an enlarged flat-8 air-cooled engine from the Porsche 804 Formula One car which was developed to produce.
To take advantage of the lighter wheels and F1 tyres, the Porsche 910 was developed and entered in mid-season of 1966, starting with the hillclimb from Sierre to Crans-Montana in Switzerland.
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.
It was introduced in the 1984 Paris Motor Show as the first car developed by SEAT as an independent company, though it was designed by SEAT S. A. in collaboration with well-known firms such as Italdesign, Karmann and Porsche.
The gearbox and powertrain was developed in collaboration with Porsche, thus named under licence System Porsche.
Ferdinand " Ferry " Porsche, who was running the company at the time, handed development of the vehicle over to Ernst Fuhrmann, who adapted the turbo-technology originally developed for the 917 / 30 CAN-AM car to the 3. 0 litre flat-six from the Carrera RS 3. 0, creating what Porsche internally dubbed as 930.
The Touareg ( internally designated Typ 7L ) was a joint venture project developed by Volkswagen Group, Audi, and Porsche.
The modern cone system was developed by Porsche and introduced in the 1952 Porsche 356 ; cone synchronisers were called Porsche-type for many years after this.
It is named after the town of Weissach, where the research centre of Porsche is located and the axle was developed.
Audi also debuted their new tiptronic automatic transmission on the B5 platform, based on the unit Porsche developed for their 964-generation 911.

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In training for that race, the late Stefan Bellof set the all-time lap record for the Nordschleife in his Porsche 956, which is still unbeaten at 6: 11. 13, or over on average ( partially because no major racing has taken place there since 1984 ).
* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Klaus Ludwig / Paolo Barilla / " John Winter " ( Louis Krages ) won, driving a Porsche 956
** the team of Klaus Ludwig / Henri Pescarolo won, driving a Porsche 956
* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Vern Schuppan / Al Holbert / Hurley Haywood won, driving a Porsche 956
** won by the team of Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell driving a Porsche 956
This time he entered two sportscar races, driving a Porsche 956 for Richard Lloyd Racing in the World Sportscar Championship.
However the following year Needell finished 17th driving a Porsche 956.
A Brun Motorsport Porsche 956, sponsored by Jägermeister.
A initial prototype concept, named the Porsche Gruppe B, debuted in 1983, after which plans were made to build the car for production and provide racing versions for customers as had been done with the 956.
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 ).
In 1983 Boutsen drove in the European Touring Car Championship and in World Sportscar races, where he won the very first Group C race, the Monza 1000 km with Bob Wollek driving a Porsche 956.
He also won the famous Daytona 24 hour race in 1985, co-driving the Porsche 956 from the Preston Henn Racing with Bob Wollek, AJ Foyt and Al Unser Sr.
Sadly it was also rising German star Stefan Bellof's last Grand Prix as he was killed at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the 1000 km of Spa World Sportscar race just a week later driving a Porsche 956.
Before his Formula One career Johansson had participated in sports car races such as 24 Hours of Le Mans, and had won two World Sportscar Championship races in the 1980s ( the Mugello round in 1983, driving a Joest Racing Porsche 956 with Bob Wollek, and the 1988 Spa Francorchamps race in a Sauber C9 with Mauro Baldi ).
In 1986, he switched to a Porsche 956 from Richard Lloyd Racing's outfit, returning to a works drive in 1988 with the Sauber-Mercedes team, with whom Baldi won the 1990 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, sharing the car with Jean-Louis Schlesser.
In the 1980's he was still a sought after prototype pilot and raced successful on Kremer CK5, Lancia LC1 and Porsche 956.
He won two World Sportscar Championship titles in 1985 – 86, the 24 Hours of Daytona three times in 1986 – 87 and 1989 and Le Mans five times in 1975, 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987, mostly teamed with Jacky Ickx in one of the Porsche 936 and Porsche 956 / Porsche 962 models.
Barilla then entered Formula 2 in 1982 with Minardi, but between 1983 and 1988 he concentrated in sports car racing, winning 24 Hours of Le Mans by a three lap margin in 1985, among other victories, in the Joest Racing Porsche 956, co-driven at times with Klaus Ludwig, Paul Belmondo, Marc Duez, and Louis Krages ( also known at the time as John Winter ).
Schuppan has had a very successful sports car career, winning the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche's official factory team with Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood in a Rothmans Porsche 956 and finishing second in 1977 and 1982 and third in 1975.
In 1984 he finished sixth at Le Mans with former Formula One World Champion Alan Jones and Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jarier in a Kremer Racing Porsche 956 ( his factory backed Rothmans team boycotted the event ).
Stefan Bellof ( 20 November 1957 – 1 September 1985 ) was a racing driver who is famous for setting the fastest lap ever on the Nordschleife configuration at the Nürburgring in 1983, driving a Porsche 956.
A Porsche 956 being demonstrated at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, formerly a car shared by Bellof and Jochen Mass in the 1983 World Sportscar Championship season | 1983 World Sportscar Championship.

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