Cars range from old road legal compacts to Porsche 996 and even modified DTM cars ().

Porsche 996 GT3 | Porsche 996 GT3 RS at the Raliul Clujului, in the parking lot of Cora ( hypermarket ) | Cora

The design was very aerodynamic for its time, and the cW value ( drag coefficient ) was 0. 30 ( the same as a Porsche 996 and better than the Ferrari F40 ).

In the Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld's moose test the 1999 model of Xantia V6 Activa still holds the record speed through the manoeuvre-faster than the Porsche 996 GT2.

The Porsche 993 was replaced by the Porsche 996.

The Porsche 996 is the internal designation for the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between 1998 and 2005.

The 996 Carrera ( non GT and Turbo models ) engine is designed with what Porsche calls the " integrated dry sump oiling ".

Porsche 996 with aero kit

Porsche 996 Turbo, sectioned for display purposes

The Porsche 996 replaced the Porsche 993.

In 2000, Porsche debuted the 996 Turbo, equipped with four-wheel-drive and a 3. 6 litre, twin turbocharged and intercooled flat-six producing 420 bhp ( 309 kW ), making the car capable of 4. 2 second 0 to 60 mph times.

Porsche offered a special edition of the 996 for the year 2000.

While the exterior styling is slightly changed compared to the 996, it is again more evolution rather than revolution ; typical of Porsche and the Carrera.

The Targa 4 and Targa 4S versions, like the Porsche 911 Targa of the 993 and 996 generations, are equipped with a glass roof and hatch.

The Porsche 996 911 GT2 was superseded by the 997-generation GT2, on sale since November 2007.

For example, the more standard Cup version of the Porsche 996 is used, instead of the usual RS / RSR racing versions.

Porsche has the most overall victories of any manufacturer with 22, scored by various models, including the road based 911, 935 and 996.

1996 saw the debut of a retractable glass roof in the Porsche 993 Targa, a design continued on the 996 Targa.

The first of these Jagdpanzers was the Ferdinand ( later renamed the Elefant ), a 70-ton monster built from the already-built quantity of ninety-one Porsche VK4501

Apart from brake wear in the Porsche and the decision not to change pads so close to the race end, the winning combination was relaxed driving by both GT40 drivers and heroic efforts at the right time by ( at that time Le Mans ' rookie ) Ickx, who won Le Mans five times more in later years.

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 ).

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

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.

Several members of the Porsche board objected ; their official objection was because they wanted Porsche AG to maintain some separation from Volkswagen.

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.

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

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.

The Lada Samara was partly developed by Porsche in 1984.

The Porsche 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle.

However, not all this work was wasted, as the chassis Porsche designed for the Tiger I was used as the base for the Elefant tank destroyer.

Many regard the 356 as the first Porsche simply because it was the first model sold by the fledgling company.

The team to lay out the body shell design was led by Ferry Porsche's eldest son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( F.

Reuter's workshop was later acquired by Porsche ( so-called Werk 2 ).

In 1972, the company's legal form was changed from Kommanditgesellschaft ( KG ), or limited partnership, to Aktiengesellschaft ( AG ), or public limited company, because Ferry Porsche and his sister, Louise Piëch, felt their generation members did not team up well.

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

In 2004 it was reported that Toyota was assisting Porsche with hybrid technology.

Following the dismissal of Bohn, an interim CEO was appointed, longtime Porsche employee, Heinz Branitzki, who served in that position until Wendelin Wiedeking became CEO in 1993.

In 2004, production of the Carrera GT commenced in Leipzig, and at EUR 450, 000 ($ 440, 000 in the United States ) it was the most expensive production model Porsche ever built.

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.

For 1990 model year Porsche made RDK and a 0-100 % variable ratio limited-slip called PSD ( Porsche SperrDifferential ) standard in both GT and S4 models for all markets.

** Dual airbags now standard across all Porsche models in U. S. Driver and front passenger airbag optional in LHD ROW cars, only drivers side bag available in RHD markets.

As of 2005, the extended Porsche and Piëch families controlled all of Porsche AG's voting shares.

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.

A five-speed transmission, available in normally aspirated cars ( type 016 ) starting in 1979 and standard on all turbos ( type g31 ), was a dog-leg shift pattern Porsche unit, with first gear below reverse on the left side.

Porsche started with the same Audi-sourced 2. 0 L I4, designed an all new cylinder head ( which was hand assembled at Stuttgart ), dropped the compression to 7. 5: 1 and engineered a KKK K-26 turbocharger for it.

Porsche responded to both requests by mounting new axles with gear-reduction hubs, providing the car with more torque and more ground-clearance all at once.

These experiments culminated in a joint project by the Forschungsgemeinschaft Automobil-Technik ( FAT ), a conglomeration of all seven German car makers ( Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Opel ( GM ), Porsche, and Volkswagen ), which tested the applicability of two emerging commercial crash simulation codes.

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.

Journalist David E. Davis, in a 2009 article in Automobile Magazine, noted that despite Nader's claim that swing-axle rear suspension were dangerous, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen all used similar swing-axle concepts during that era.

In fact, it convinced Porsche executives of the system's viability so well that they chose to make all-wheel drive standard on all versions of the 911 Turbo starting with the 993 variant.

' 200 ' at Aintree in 1960 Porsche scored a 1-2-3 victory with Stirling Moss, Jo Bonnier and Graham Hill all in 718's.

Although it's true I had thought it would have been better to put a larger engine, the moment I drove the Honda NSX, all the benchmark cars — Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini — I had been using as references in the development of my car vanished from my mind.

The 993 Turbo was the first Porsche Turbo with all wheel drive.

The design for these headlamps could be traced all the way back to the Porsche Panamericana concept car.

Foyt, Dan Gurney, Phil Hill, Jacky Ickx, Geoff Brabham, Stirling Moss, John Morton, Steve Millen and Lake Underwood, and manufacturers such as Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, MG, Toyota, Jaguar, Cunningham, Audi and Ford have all been victorious.

The Roush Merkurs of Scott Pruett and Pete Halsmer dominated the 1987 season, winning all but one race, with Elliott Forbes-Robinson taking that win in his Porsche 944 Turbo.

This is due not only to the influence of leading international companies, such as Daimler, Porsche, Robert Bosch, Celesio, Hewlett-Packard and IBM ( all of whom have their world or German headquarters here ), but also to the influence of world-renowned medium-sized enterprises such as Behr, Dürr, Kärcher, Märklin, Stihl, Festo, TTS Tooltechnic Systems, GEZE and Trumpf.

The first 964s available in 1989 were all wheel drive equipped " Carrera 4 " models ; Porsche added the rear wheel drive Carrera 2 variant to the range in 1990.

These were all transferred to Porsche Exclusiv and built as the very special Turbo 3. 6S.