As the star guest of our themed evening, ‘60 Years of the Porsche 911 F Model,’ we will be presenting Alois Ruf and his 901 prototype Quickblau next Saturday. Alois Ruf made history with his manufactory for high-performance automobiles. “Yellowbird” is just one of the keywords: 29 examples of the car were built from 1987…
As the successor to the Porsche 356, the 911 went into series production in the 1965 model year. The so-called F model will therefore celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2025.
It has become common practice to refer to the first generation of the Porsche 911, which rolled off the production line in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen between 1965 and 1973, as the F model or F series. The second generation, produced between 1974 and 1989, is referred to as the G model or G series.
The Porsche 993 Carrera was available from model years 1994 to 1998 and was first listed in the price list 8-1993 with a price of 125,760 DM. The 993 Carrera Coupé became one of the most beautiful and harmonious 911s ever. While there were still 18 different colours (6 solid colours and 12 metallic paints)…
As part of the legendary Musketeers, Hans Springmann modeled the Porsche 911, which was created in the studio under the direction of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. He has now passed away at the age of 88. Hans Springmann had been in contact with the Porsche family since his earliest days, as his mother had already worked…
Copyright Porsche Archive The first Porsche 901 rolled off the assembly line on 14 September 1964: it was the car with chassis number 300.007. The first vehicles were either temporarily retained by the factory or used as exhibition vehicles. Interestingly, the nine-eleven with chassis number 300.001, a 911 Coupé in signal red, was not completed…
The second part of the event series ‘30 years of the Porsche 993’ took place at the Boxenstop Museum in Tübingen. Berlin Motor Books and Boxenstop owner Rainer Klink organised this special themed evening. The event was so well attended with over 100 guests that some interested parties who were not on the guest list…
Berlin Motor Books and Michael Schnabl invited guests to the themed evening ‘30 years of the Porsche 993’ in the Motorlegenden showroom directly on Lake Ammersee. Among the guests of honour were Porsche 993 project manager Bernd Kahnau and 993 test driver Dieter Röscheisen. Jürgen Pippig, Jürgen Lewandowski and Oliver Mezger were also among the…
The British car designer Tony Hatter was born in Newcastle in 1954. His studies led to attaining a masters degree in Automotive Design at the Royal College of Art in London in 1981. In that same year he began his career at Opel in Russelsheim before in 1986 achieving his goal by becoming a designer…
In 2024, Porsche celebrates the “50th anniversary of the 911 Turbo”. Hans Mezger would have celebrated his 95th birthday in 2024. He brought the Turbo to the racetrack and later into series production. We are therefore publishing a buyer’s guide to the 930 Turbo, better known as the “Porsche 911 Turbo”. We will focus specifically…
Roland Kussmaul is considered the ‘father’ of the 964 RS. He became world-famous as a legendary Porsche racing engineer and worked at Porsche for over 36 years. Kussmaul began his career in 1969 as a design engineer before being transferred to road testing in 1973. At the request of Peter Falk, Roland Kussmaul was transferred…
