40 years of the Porsche Turbo - A generational comparison of the super sports car from Zuffenhausen
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Summary
When Porsche launched the 911 Turbo, the first European production sports car with a turbocharger, in 1974, the signs on the horizon looked bad with the energy crisis and fears of inflation. But 500 planned units soon turned into thousands and even tens of thousands to date. Eight generations have been built to date, this report compares them and shows the air-cooled ancestors in particular in over 200 pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- In the beginning was the Volkswagen
- Evolution stages 1 and 2 - 260 to 300 hp
- A new era with the third generation
- More powerful and cleaner with the fourth generation
- Four further generations
- The secret of the turbo
- All beginnings are difficult
- Comparison of the first five generations
Estimated reading time: 9min
Preview (beginning of the article)
When "the Turbo" appears in car discussions, all interested parties know that only one car can be meant - the Porsche Turbo. Only the Zuffenhausen-based manufacturer has managed to turn the name of an engine design principle into the epitome of a model series. The Porsche Turbo was by no means the first production vehicle with a turbocharger, as the Americans had already equipped the Chevrolet Corvair Monza with an exhaust gas turbine more than ten years earlier. It all began with the Volkswagen, the so-called "Beetle", which then became the Porsche in pressed form and, equipped with a small turbine, the engineers in Stuttgart managed to write a success story in many chapters that continues to this day.
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