Some customer teams modified their 934 to Gr. 5 rules with body kits supplied by Porsche, these were often designated 934 / 5.

Kit builders are free to source and fit a variety of engines and transmissions but the Chevrolet small block V8 supplied by American Speed mated to either a Porsche or Getrag transaxle is the factory recommended standard, and this configuration is fitted to all turnkey cars.

TAG sponsored Williams in the early 1980s and then supplied McLaren with TAG Turbo Engines with the help of Porsche in the mid 1980s.

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Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

On 3 March 2007, Porsche set the stage for obtaining a plurality stake in the Volkswagen AG.

* September 3 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer ( d. 1951 )

* Karl Ludvigsen – " Porsche: Excellence Was Expected " ( 3 vols ) – extensive history of Porsche

The T3, however, didn't contain many Samara parts, using the Porsche 959's four-wheel drive system and a 3. 6-litre Porsche flat-six.

In the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race, Peter Revson and McQueen ( driving with a cast on his left foot from a motorcycle accident two weeks before ) won with a Porsche 908 / 02 in the 3 litre class and missed winning overall by 23 seconds to Mario Andretti / Ignazio Giunti / Nino Vaccarella in a 5 litre Ferrari 512S.

Though the term would not be coined until after World War One, the first sports cars are considered to be the 3 litre 1910 Vauxhall and the 27 / 80PS Austro-Daimler designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Porsche has sold a diesel version of the Cayenne powered by Volkswagen's 3. 0 L V6 TDI engine since February 2009.

At the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany in October, Williams defeated a player ranked in the top three for the first time that season by defeating World No. 3 Dinara Safina to reach her third semifinal of the year.

The domination of the Porsche 917 over the V12-powered Ferrari 512 probably influenced Ferrari, because they returned to the flat-12 in 3 litre water-cooled form for their prototypes and Formula One cars.

This inline engine configuration is the most common in cars with a displacement up to 2. 4 L. The usual " practical " limit of the displacement of inline-four engines in a car is around 2. 7 L. However, Porsche used a 3. 0 L four in its 944 S2 and 968 sports cars, the International Harvester Scout was available with a 3. 2 L inline four from 1965 until 1980 and Rolls-Royce produced several inline-four engines of 2, 838 cc with basic cylinder dimensions of diameter and stroke ( Rolls-Royce B40 ).

The use of balance shafts allowed Porsche to use a 3. 0 L ( 2990 cc ) inline-four engine on road cars first in the 944 S2, but the largest modern non-diesel was the plain 195 in the 1961 Pontiac Tempest.

The street-legal version debuted in 1964 in order to comply with Group 3 Appendix J homologation regulations requiring a certain number of road-going variants be sold by the factory. Porsche produced 106 904s at four or five a day with a list price of US $ 7245 ( FOB Stuttgart ).

Compare the Honda NSX at 2. 91 degrees per g, the Porsche 928 S at 3. 60 degrees per g and the Jaguar XJ6 at 4. 30 degrees per g respectively.

Porsche claims it will accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h ( 62. 1 mph ) in 3. 9 seconds and has a maximum speed of 330 km / h ( 205 mph ), although road tests indicated that in reality the car can accelerate from 0-in 3. 5 seconds and 0-in 6. 8 seconds.

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.

Porsche made its first and most significant upgrades to the 930 for 1978, enlarging the engine to 3. 3 litres and adding an air-to-air intercooler.

Coventry Climax were late in producing the smaller 1. 5-litre engine required for the 1961 season and the Cooper-Climaxes were outclassed by new mid-engined cars from Porsche, Lotus and championship-winners Ferrari.

Having the engine, transmission, catalytic converter ( s ) and exhaust all cramped into a small rear engine bay made emission and noise control more difficult, something Porsche was already facing problems with on the 911 and wanted to avoid.

To this day, no Porsche has ever used an EA827-based engine.

Porsche upgraded the engine from mechanical to electronic fuel injection in 1980 for US models, although power remained the same.

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 ).

Changed bodywork, larger front brakes and a new, more powerful 5. 4 L, 350 PS ( 257 kW / 345 hp ) engine were the big advertised changes ; what Porsche wasn't advertising was the price.

Porsche 928 V8 engine

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.

1952 Porsche 356 K / 9-1 Prototype In post-war Germany, parts were generally in short supply, so the 356 automobile used components from the Volkswagen Beetle, including its internal combustion engine, transmission, and suspension.

In 1964, after some success in motor-racing, namely with the Porsche 550 Spyder, the company launched the Porsche 911 another air-cooled, rear-engined sports car, this time with a six-cylinder " boxer " engine.

The first Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of Porsche AG was Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, who had been working in the company's engine development.

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.

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.

At the time, Volkswagen lacked an internal research and design division, and Porsche was doing the bulk of the company's development work, per a deal that went back to the 1950s ; in keeping with this history, Porsche was contracted to develop a new sporting vehicle with the caveat that this vehicle must work with an existing VW / Audi I4 engine.

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.

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

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.

In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.

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.

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

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 ).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

With the release of the Cayenne SUV, Porsche has met with renewed success with a front-engined, V8-powered model.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.