Porsche 911 Information

A modern classic if ever there was one, the long-running 911 arrived in 1964 as a replacement to the 356. An ideal sports car, from the beginning it was easy to drive, reasonably comfortable, and not terribly complicated. It was a work of art, styling evidently being more important to customers at first, sales of the four-cylinder 912 totalling 9,000 to the 911 six-cylinder's total sales of 4,000 in 1966. In standard form the front suspension was independent with struts and lateral arms, and independent on trailing arms to the rear, front springing by separate longitudinal torsion bars for each wheel, with one transverse round torsion bar per wheel at the rear. The 911 was outstanding in both racing and rallying - winning both the Targa Florio and the Monte Carlo Rally, and were famous for being equally at home on tarmac, ice or gravel. The racing success of the famously rear-engined Porsche 911 has led to Porsche bulding various, powerful race inspired variants of the car; including the Porsche 935. A direct descendant f the Volkswagen Beetle, the Porsche AG 911 was unveilded at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show, where it received great press reviews for its styling alone. The fable famously goes that it was to be known as the Porsche 901, however Peugeot owned copyright on car names of 3 numbers with an 0 in the middle, and so at... Porsche 911 Information