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Porsche 944 Turbo Cabriolet. In February 1991, Porsche unveiled the 944 Turbo Cabriolet, which combined the Turbo S' 250 PS (184 kW) engine with the cabriolet body style also built by ASC. Porsche initially announced that 600 cars would be made; ultimately 625 were built, 100 of which were right-hand drive for the United Kingdom, Japanese ...
The development work from the Turbo S LM-GT helped Porsche in creating the 993-generation 911 GT2 in 1995, which would be mass-produced and sold to racing customers. Some teams, unable to buy new 911 GT2s, developed their own twin-turbo racing versions of the 964 Turbo to mimic the Turbo S LM-GT, but lacked the success of the factory project.
Porsche 944 Turbo Cup (951) Porsche 911 Cup (964) Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.8 (964) Porsche 911 Cup 3.8 (993) Porsche 911 GT2 (993) Porsche 911 GT2 Evo (993)
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG Headquarters in Stuttgart Company type Public Traded as FWB: P911 DAX component ISIN DE000PAG9113 Industry Automotive Founded 1931 ; 94 years ago (1931) in Stuttgart, Germany Founder Ferdinand Porsche Headquarters Stuttgart, Germany Area served Worldwide Key people Wolfgang Porsche (chairman) Oliver Blume (CEO) Products Automobiles Production output 321,321 vehicles ...
996 Turbo 996 Turbo S. In 2000, Porsche launched the turbocharged version of the Type 996 for the 2001 model year. Like the GT3, the Turbo's engine was derived from the engine used in the 911 GT1 and, like its predecessor, featured twin-turbos and now had a power output of 420 PS (309 kW; 414 hp). [37]
The Porsche 996 is the fifth generation of the 911 model sports car manufactured by the German automaker Porsche from 1997 until 2006. [1] It was replaced by the 997 in 2004, but the high performance Turbo S, GT2 and GT3 variants remained in production until 2006. The 996 had little in common with its predecessor, with the first all new chassis ...
In response to increasing competition, Porsche introduced an upgraded version with a new Porsche-built engine as the 944, which replaced the 924 in the U.S. in 1983. In 1985, VW discontinued the engine used in the 924, prompting Porsche to use a slightly detuned 944 engine instead, drop the Turbo model, rename the vehicle as the 924S, and ...
As Porsche only had small capacity road and racing cars in the 1950s and 1960s, they scored many wins in their classes, and occasionally also overall victories against bigger cars, most notably winning the Targa Florio in 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, and every year from 1966 to 1970 in prototypes that lacked horsepower relative to the competition, but which made up for that, with reliability, low ...