Everybody likes and dreams about Carrera GT, unfortunatelly not everybody can afford it. And this super car is worth every penny spent - if you want it as a supercar. With mighty powerful V10, big-as-earth disc brakes, carbon fiber all round, titanium parts etc. But if you simply ...

Sometimes a test car reveals its personality rather slowly and a neutral first impression is succeeded by a growing like (or dislike). The Porsche, on the other hand, has an immediate attraction for most people; several passengers expressed this feeling spontaneously before completing their first mile. Essentially its ...

Let's look back a few years: When the first Porsche appeared in 1948, it was little more than a hotted-up VW beautified by a streamlined coupe body—made of aluminum at that time—produced in very small numbers in very small workshops at Gmund in Austria. The 1131-cc, air-cooled flat-4 ...

One of the many things Porsche owners boast about is their air cooling which "neither boils nor freezes." With a Porsche Super 90 to test in the middle of winter it seemed an excellent time to see if the car is really that docile in snowy surroundings-and incidentally ...

Twelve years of Porsche progress have been little short of remarkable. We have been fortunate enough to drive every new model including the new Carrera 2=liter, summer and winter, over the twisting high= ways of Europe—and the Super 90 is the best yet. Current production concentrates on the ...

Boxster RS 60 Spyder Limited Edition built to honor Porsche's 1960 win at the 12 Hours of Sebring in the Type 718 RS. It features a six-cylinder engine pumping out 303-hp, sport exhaust, 19-inch Porsche SportDesign alloy rims, GT Silver Metallic paint job, Carrera Red interior, a new ...

For the 1960 season the FIA made changes to the regulation regarding the windscreen and cockpit size. These rules changes together with a larger (1.6 litre) Type 547/3 engine, developing 160 horsepower (120 kW) and a new double wishbone rear suspension brought about the RS 60 model. The ...

The Porsche 718 was built by Porsche 1957-1962. It was a development of the Porsche 550A with improvements to the body work and suspension. The new front frame resembled the letter K and this lead to the car being referred to as the RSK. It had a mid-engined layout and ...

"Consorzio Industriale Sportive Italia" ordered this racing car from Porsche and it was intoruced in 1949. The car was commissioned by Piero Dusio in 1946. Dusio paid a large sum of money up front, part of which was used to free Ferdinand Porsche from the French prison in ...

Original Porsche 356 brochure of 1953 text. You can also download the brochure itself in TBP downloads section. 8 pages of text and photos, including Porsche history facts and biographies. Porsche Model 356 - this car embodies the sum of all the technical experience gained by Prof. Porsche and ...