Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 183 i Total 911

They’re calling it the massacre of Monterey. One of the highlights of Car Week in California, auction houses present their sales in front of some of the world’s wealthiest people, who flock to the coastal city to indulge in a festival of luxurious and collectible sports cars. This year though, it’s fair to say auction house sales had lost their sparkle. In many ways the writing was on the wall. Most luxury marques and models, including the Porsche 911 in its various iterations, are down in value compared to a year or two ago. The 911 R and 997 GT2 RS are good cases in point: both these collectibles were valued at 20 per cent more just 12 months previously. Developments – or lack of – at Monterey sought to…

Taycan: a sign of the very near future? Dear Sir, I saw the Porsche Taycan in action at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and have to say I was impressed by the conviction with which it seemed to drive. Quick, obviously, but it looked like it handled brilliantly, allaying some initial fears – from a distance at least – that Porsche was simply making a rival Tesla. It even had a bit of noise to it! What struck me as I wandered around Lord March’s lawn is just how big Porsche is pushing the Taycan. Indeed, all the PR paraphernalia in the run up to, during and since the festival has been about the Taycan or, of course, Formula E. I understand the company is going to make a…

Look back almost as far as the very dawn of the 911 and you’ll find an ‘S’ model sitting above it as a desirable upgrade. Arriving in 1967 as a 911S, Porsche has kept the ‘Super’ 911 within its range pretty much ever since, though these days the S nomenclature is partnered alongside another famous noun from the Porsche lexicon in ‘Carrera’. The subsequent ‘Carrera S’ has witnessed an acceleration in technology like no other automotive model within the same time frame. However, while technology has flourished, so has the 911’s model line-up, which has led some to ask whether or not Porsche’s Carrera S is deemed as relevant as it once was. So does the Carrera S badge still make sense? The S in 1967 was intended to cement…

As combinations go, Porsche’s link-up with the Italian drinks company Martini & Rossi is one of the most decorated across the entire automotive spectrum. A formidable partnership that’s bred much sporting as well as commercial success, the two entities now enjoy an association as ubiquitous as thunder and lightning, salt and pepper or, if you’re of an English persuasion, fish and chips. This most famous of pairings can be traced back to 1968 and Germany’s Hockenheimring, when Martini stickers were placed on a Porsche 910 run by Scuderia Lufthansa Racing Team. Porsche therefore became the first manufacturer to wear Martini’s famous red-and-blue stripes, marking the start of a relationship which runs in some degree right to the present day, minus a small hiatus in the mid-1980s when Martini partnered with…

Lee Sibley Poole, UK @lee_sibs Model 996.1 CARRERA Year 1998 Acquired JAN 2019 I was only meant to take off the wrap and give it a polish… After seven months of driving a 996.1 where the white wrap was literally hanging off, I relented. It had to go. I’d first gone to see Leon at Poole Accident Repair, one of 14 Porsche-recommended bodyshops in the UK, about the problem back in February. Even then the car’s Zenith blue colour underneath was starting to show in places where the wrap was crumbling or wilting. You may remember these guys have been entrusted with aesthetical work on my previous 911s over the years, so I was to trust any advice given to me again here. “The wrap needs to come off, so…

An 86-year-old Ferry Porsche, who was responsible for the first-ever Porsche car sold by the company in 1948, stands alongside the millionth example nearly 50 years later. The car in question, a 993 Carrera 2 with VarioRam, was given to the German highway patrol, where it served for ten years before being handed back to Porsche. Today it can be found on display in the Museum, just the other side of Porscheplatz from where it first rolled out into the Stuttgart sunlight.…

Porsche maintains championship lead with podium at Road America Vanthoor and Bamber take 3rd in IMSA round eight Works drivers Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber have extended their lead at the top of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship standings after a credible 3rd-place finish in round eight at Road America. The driver pairing went into the weekend at the summit of the GTLM standings and started the race in 25-degree sunshine from 4th position. A carefully planned strategy tried to take into account forthcoming caution periods on the 6.5-kilometre circuit. However, an uncharacteristic race without any yellow phases materialised, which left Porsche to battle it out for a podium. In the end Bamber crossed the line in 3rd to extend his and his driving partner’s championship lead to 14 points.…

“You must push it,” says this 993 Carrera RS Clubsport’s owner, Omar Lupin. That’s fine for him to say, but the paradox of driving cars like this is exactly that – driving them. Just 227 993 Carrera RS Clubsports were ever built. I’m sat in one now, a genuine 993 Carrera RS with the under-bonnet sticker containing the essential 003 code. That signifies Group N GT1 Carrera RS, simply ‘Clubsport’ or, in some markets, ‘RSR’. My surroundings confirm that: the interior is devoid of anything other than the bare necessities, which means three pedals, a gearstick and a steering wheel. It feels pure race car, because that’s what it is. A little bit more deciphering of those codes reveals that when ordered it came with a 197 88Ah battery, 459…

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First invented in 1896 by one Karl Benz, the internal combustion engine has powered millions of vehicles around the planet for 123 years since. Its most popular incumbent in terms of numbers was of course the Volkswagen Beetle, yet arguably the most iconic recipient is the Porsche 911, which has utilised a flat engine for the entirety of its 56-year existence. The basic layout of a flat engine is where, as the name suggests, cylinders lie flat, on opposite sides of a crankshaft, slightly offset from one another. It is for this reason that Benz originally called his design a ‘contra’ engine, because the cylinders on either side worked in opposition to one another. There are many advantages to a flat engine: dynamically it lowers the car’s centre of gravity…

992 Carrera finally revealed New entry-level 911 remains PDK only – for now Porsche has unveiled its base-level Carrera for the 992 generation. Featuring a detuned version of the same 3.0-litre 9A2 ‘Evo’ flat six found in the Carrera S, the turbocharged Carrera puts out 385hp, which is fed to the rear wheels only. The power output is 15hp more than the base 991.2-generation Carrera before it. The base car will feature a staggered wheel size between front and back axles for the first time: 19-inch on the front and 20-inch at the rear. Other visual differences to the C2S include smaller brakes with black calipers, and two single-exit tailpipe covers. A wide body, Porsche Wet Mode and the 10.9-inch touchscreen carried over from the C2S and C4S are all…

Two weeks after winning the 1968 Targa Florio in the Porsche 907, I headed to the next round of the World Championship, the Nürburgring 1,000km. I had many hours and many laps under my belt at the famous track, so I was very much looking forward to the race. Porsche introduced the new 908 3.0-litre, eight-cylinder Coupe for the 1,000km race. I was paired with the late Jo Siffert. The 908 was essentially identical to the 907, except the engine was larger and less complicated. Jo and I had more than a few problems during practice and qualifying, forcing us to start way back in 27th place on the grid. Despite the rough start we battled back to win the 1,000km Nürburgring race by more than three minutes over Hans…

In retrospect, it’s easy to say Porsche’s mistake was its decision to keep the G-series 911 in production for 15 years, but from the company’s point of view, through the early 1980s the 911 was selling ever more strongly. Regular updates and revisions ensured it remained at the top of the performance stakes. The robustness which made it a car you could count on day after day meant that despite its archaisms, it was still the ultimate road and track sports car. However, within Porsche it was also a source of frustration to many of its engineers and designers keen to modernise it, dispensing, for example, with the torsion bar suspension and introducing assisted steering and a less idiosyncratic ventilation system. Journalists in other respects always well disposed towards the…

Start your engines: Total 911 presents five ultimate road trips from around the globe made for Porsche’s iconic sports car 1 ACROSS AMERICA The ‘land of opportunity’ was created by people crossing its huge landscape, and the draw of a coast-to-coast drive remains a must-do on many a road tripper’s list. For good reason, too: the landscape is as varied as it is vast, and America was built for the automobile, cars being utterly entrenched in US culture – thus it’s relatively easy, despite the big distances involved. As a minimum you’ll be looking at adding around 2,800 miles to your 911’s odometer, but that would be doing the drive a disservice, it needing more miles, time and commitment to do properly. We’re recommending you take your time. Best to…

Porsche has an enviable collection of cars, and a visit to its Museum is always a special experience. But for years there was one model missing from Porsche’s own collection, and that was an early 901. Launched at the 1963 IAA Frankfurt Show, you’ll no doubt know the story of how that development number was subject to a trademark dispute with Peugeot – in France they had registered numbers with a zero in the middle – requiring some hasty rebadging that introduced the world to the legendary 911. The beginning of a model line enduring for more than half a century, it’s no surprise Porsche had long been keen to get its hands on an early 901, and on 5 August 2014 that wish was about to come true. It…

“Porsche 935s were war horses. They got a lot of races and a lot of miles, because they were so successful. They were endurance cars, so they did a lot of long races. Guys could just pound that car for a long race. There weren’t many race cars that you could pound it for 12 or 24 hours. There just weren’t, and the 935, they could do that easily. They got used,” says Bruce Canepa. He should know, as the American was one of the drivers using them. He still owns one, obtaining and racing the last 935 from the Porsche factory in 1979, with a notable 3rd placing in the 24 hours race at Daytona in the same year. Canepa started racing on dirt tracks, confessing that that was…

911s in the data file are organised in rows according to release date, beginning with the very first model in 1964. Many models were available in Coupe, Targa and Cabriolet forms, with the option of automatic transmission. Here, data has been provided from the Coupe variants unless stated. All data here has been compiled, where possible, from Porsche’s own figures. General valuations This reflects the general market trend for a model’susedvaluecompared to the previous financial quarter. The review for 2019 Q4 will be October. The review for 2019 Q3 was July. Ratings Each model is rated out of five in our half-star system according to their performance, handling, appearance and desirability.…

Anatole Carl Lapine – known to many as Tony – was born in Riga on 23 May 1930, but as World War Two loomed things were about to get very difficult for him and his family. As refugees from Latvia they moved first to Poland and then to Germany. But, having shown a flair for design, 1950 would see Lapine working for Daimler-Benz, and just a few years later the family relocated to America and the state of Nebraska, where he ended up working on snow ploughs. The beginning of a glittering career was just around the corner. After working for General Motors in the US and Opel in Germany – involved with the Chevrolet Corvette and as head of the Opel Research Centre respectively – he would join Porsche…