A history of Porsche in 10 cars
Discussion
Long time PHer here. It's not often work and pleasure mix, but as a lifelong Porsche fan, and former 911 owner, I recently got the chance to celebrate the marque in the business magazine I edit.
For the 10 cars to feature the Porsche Museum took my original list and made some changes, while also kindly supplying a wealth of photos. What do you guys reckon to the final selection?
https://www.glion.edu/magazine/a-history-of-porsch...
For the 10 cars to feature the Porsche Museum took my original list and made some changes, while also kindly supplying a wealth of photos. What do you guys reckon to the final selection?
https://www.glion.edu/magazine/a-history-of-porsch...
Not a bad list, though I expect it won't please the cork sniffers.
Personally, I wouldn't put the 924 in there. It was an evolutionary dead end and doesn't really have anything to do with any future front-engine Porsche model. The Panamera doesn't exist because of the 924, that's for sure.
My only other note would be that the text covering the 986 Boxster somewhat overlooks the car's actual significance (and I'd have pictured the production car, not the concept). The Boxster didn't save Porsche. But the approach to building sports cars that it represents did.
The 986 Boxster was the first example of a model on the modern modular platform approach to building sports cars that turned things around for Porsche and that the company has been using ever since. Porsche has basically used a single, common platform for all the sports cars of a given generation Boxster, Cayman and 911 be that 9x6, 9x7 or 9x1. A 911 GT3 RS is on the same platform as a base Boxster.
That's become a little confused latterly, as Porsche brought out the 992 but hasn't then updated the Boxster and Cayman with the 992's platform (call it 9x2, if you want), keeping those models on the old 9x1 platform that now dates back to 2011. That said, the 718 EV mules very much look like they're on the same platform as the 992, so the interruption to that policy is probably only temporary.
Personally, I wouldn't put the 924 in there. It was an evolutionary dead end and doesn't really have anything to do with any future front-engine Porsche model. The Panamera doesn't exist because of the 924, that's for sure.
My only other note would be that the text covering the 986 Boxster somewhat overlooks the car's actual significance (and I'd have pictured the production car, not the concept). The Boxster didn't save Porsche. But the approach to building sports cars that it represents did.
The 986 Boxster was the first example of a model on the modern modular platform approach to building sports cars that turned things around for Porsche and that the company has been using ever since. Porsche has basically used a single, common platform for all the sports cars of a given generation Boxster, Cayman and 911 be that 9x6, 9x7 or 9x1. A 911 GT3 RS is on the same platform as a base Boxster.
That's become a little confused latterly, as Porsche brought out the 992 but hasn't then updated the Boxster and Cayman with the 992's platform (call it 9x2, if you want), keeping those models on the old 9x1 platform that now dates back to 2011. That said, the 718 EV mules very much look like they're on the same platform as the 992, so the interruption to that policy is probably only temporary.
I think every person on this forum would pick 10 different cars…..you definitely have some of the key cars ! The transaxle cars in retrospect don’t seem that important but at the time they were a very important part of Porsche’s product line up….as we all know the intention was that they would replace the 911.
‘75 Turbo is I would say a car that is under appreciated and a great pick, a friend of mine owned a 30k mile original car that 000 Magazine used for the cover article about them….lucky enough to have driven it, absolutely fabulous car on the road. The first 250 odd cars were homologation cars for the 934 and 935 Group 4 cars that followed. I don’t think it is widely appreciated that the 930 Turbo started life as a homologation car rather than a GT car.
‘75 Turbo is I would say a car that is under appreciated and a great pick, a friend of mine owned a 30k mile original car that 000 Magazine used for the cover article about them….lucky enough to have driven it, absolutely fabulous car on the road. The first 250 odd cars were homologation cars for the 934 and 935 Group 4 cars that followed. I don’t think it is widely appreciated that the 930 Turbo started life as a homologation car rather than a GT car.
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