Icon – a legend on wheels – the epitome of a sports car…?

The Porsche 911 is more than 50 years old – many consider the 911 the only true Porsche, no matter in what year it was built.

In September 1963, Porsche presented the successor of the 356 at the Frankfurt motor show, the IAA. Since 2012, the 7th generation of the Nine-Eleven has been available, with the internal designation 991. Even the untrained eye can see that the silhouette has hardly changed over the past 50 years.

In technical terms, though, nothing is the way it used to be any more:
The 130 horsepower of the basic model has increased to 350 horsepower; the 2 litre engine has grown to 3.4 litres; and the air-cooled Boxer engine has given way to a water-cooled version. Yet Ferry Porsche’s basic idea still holds: “short, light, and with a rear engine”.

The writer Ulf Thomas compares the original 901 with the current basic model, and continues this game through all generations of the Nine-Eleven: the first 911 S of 1967 and today’s S model; the first Targa and the current Targa – once again with a metal bar, the first cabriolet, the first four-wheel drive, the first turbo…

Contemporary witnesses, managers, designers, engineers and racing drivers – they all describe their encounters with the iconic sports car. Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, the youngest son of the company’s founder Ferry Porsche, brother of the “Butzi” Porsche, who designed the 911, and chairman of Porsche’s Supervisory Council, tells us exclusively about this experiences with the Nine-Eleven – from yesteryear to the present.

Everyone who has anything to do with the Porsche 911, who drives one or is simply a fan of the iconic sports car, agrees that the 911 will always be around – the really exciting question is, what kind of technology it will be fitted with.

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