{"id":26159,"date":"2018-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/70-years-of-porsche\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T06:32:09","slug":"70-years-of-porsche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/70-years-of-porsche-2\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Years of Porsche – The six-cylinder models"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since June 8, the sports car brand Porsche is 70 years old. This is based on the day of the first registration of the 356\/1 Roadster. After several years in which Porsche only built sports cars with four-cylinder boxer engines based on the Volkswagen engines, in 1963 a serious change followed. 55 years ago the new 901 debuted as 356-successor at the Frankfurt Motor Show. After only a few copies, Porsche renamed the new car to 911, because they wanted to avoid legal arguments with Peugeot, who had registered all three-digit numbers with a zero in the middle as model designations for cars as trademarks.

Over the years, there have been various model versions of the 911, such as the 911 S, 911 T, 911 E or the legendary 911 Carrera RS 2.7. In addition they offered the Targa, from the 70s on also the powerful Turbo and finally in the 80s also a Convertible. Like the predecessor model, the 911 was also used on racetracks, hillclimbs and rallys, where it usually finished in the upper parts of the result lists – and still does. In the late 60s, the manufacturer from Zuffenhausen started to develop lightweight racing cars with plastic bodyworks. Starting with the 904 Carrera GTS it continued with the 906 Carrera 6, 907, 908 and 910. The 908 ran in motor racing in various stages of development far into the 80s. Another six-cylinder model is of course the 914\/6, based on the mid-engined sports car VW-Porsche 914. While Volkswagen only offered the car with four cylinders, Porsche mounted the six-cylinder engine from the 911. It was also available as 914\/6 GT with wider fenders, which was used in rallies and circuit racing. It was followed by a very small series of the Porsche 916.<\/p>\n\n\n

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