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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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

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.

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 %).

Porsche is the owner of Dr. Ing.

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.

h. c. F. Porsche AG ( which stands for Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft ), is responsible for the actual production and manufacture of the Porsche automobile line.

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.

In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant ( Werk 2 ) across the street from Reutter Karosserie ; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse.

Large Sports Cars was won by Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina in a Lancia, Small Sports Cars by José Herrarte from Guatemala in a Porsche.

Among the early pioneers of DOHC were Isotta Fraschini's Giustino Cattaneo, Austro-Daimler's Ferdinand Porsche, Stephen Tomczak ( in the Prinz Heinrich ), and W. O. Bentley ( in 1919 ); Sunbeam built small numbers of racing models between 1921 and 1923 and introduced one of the world's first production twin cams in 1924 — the Sunbeam 3 litre Super Sports, an example of which came second at Le Mans in 1925.

Alan Hamilton the Australian Porsche distributor at the time owned one of these cars and competed and won the 1977 Australian Sports Car Championship and in 1980 the same car won the title with Allan Moffat behind the wheel

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.

One of the best Sports Car Endurance race car drivers of the ' 60s, ' 70s and early ' 80s, Stommelen won the 24 Hours of Daytona 4 times ; in 1968, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the Targa Florio in 1967 in a Porsche 910.

Led Nassau 1959 ( Shelby DNF Mechanical ), Porsche RSK 2 Liter winner ( Bonnier ), GT winner Porsche Carerra ( Cuevas ); 1960 1, 000 km Buenos Aires ( Gurney / Gregory DNF Mechanical and accident ); Argentine GP ( Gregory Behra-Porsche ); Havana GP for Sports Cars – 8 car entre, winning overall Moss Maserati, 2 Liter Gregory Porsche RSK, GT Corvette Jeffords, under 2 liter GT Cuevas Porsche Carerra ; Sebring 12 hour, largest team entry ever of 8 cars, 3 Mazeratis ( Gurney / Moss led 8 hours DNF Mechanical ), 2 Porsche Carerras ( under 2 liter GT winner and 2nd OA GT Sheppard / Dungan ), 2 Corvettes Jeffords / Weustoff / Gamble ( Gamble drove 12 hours solo – only one of two known to have done this – earned press notice as “ iron man Gamble ”).

In Sports car racing, he also scored the first overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche in 1970, on a Porsche 917.

: All-Star Sports Car: Porsche Boxster

: All-Star Sports Car: Porsche Boxster

: Best Sports Car Over $ 40, 000: Porsche Boxster S

: Best Sports Car Over $ 40, 000: Porsche 911 Turbo

Prost's McLaren was powered by the Porsche designed TAG engine and Ickx was the lead driver for the factory backed Rothmans Porsche Group C Sports car team and it was rumored that the Belgian had stopped the race to ensure the Porsche engined car won.

Prior to the 2006 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Rahal Letterman Racing announced that the team would be fielding a Porsche 997 GT3-RSR in the American Le Mans Series in 2007.

He won the overall race and in the Daytona Prototype Class at the 2008 Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park and also the Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype season championship.