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The tamed rocket Porsche Carrera 2 (1962)

Name: Porsche 356 1962
Brand: Porsche

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Created on February 1, 1962

Text:

Heinz Kranz

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Porsche Carrera 2 (1962) - Edgar Barth at Solitude - a model of consistency in terms of times and lines

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Porsche Carrera 2 (1962) - Edgar Barth drove the Carrera 2 for Hobby, the dream car of today for the traffic of tomorrow

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Porsche Carrera 2 (1962) - The rear of the Carrera 2

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Porsche Carrera 2 (1962) - Everything that is good and expensive in one engine - four camshafts driven by two king shafts, two twin carburetors and dual ignition

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Summary

In 1962, hobby magazine was given the opportunity to test Ferry Porsche's private Porsche Carrera 2. Heinz Kranz was so enthusiastic that he had to use almost half the text to explain that he was not biased and was genuinely neutral. The test car performed extremely well on the racetrack (with Edgar Barth at the wheel), in the city, as well as on country roads and highways. "The car par excellence", was a statement made by the test driver, which calls for an explanation. The restored test report provides these and summarizes the results and findings.

This article contains the following chapters

The normalized super sports car
Plenty of power and torque for everyday use
At home on race tracks, on country roads and in the city
Also impressive compared to the competition
Also plenty of comfort and utility
Long sold out
The car par excellence?
Test data and results

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

As uniquely beautiful as the drives with the Porsche Carrera were, the task of writing a test report about this car is a thankless one. Again and again the tester - not a Porsche driver, but an enthusiastic fan of front-wheel drive - has to suppress the thought of seeing the new Carrera as the incarnation of the car par excellence: in the dynamic interplay of cause and effect, in the interplay of what is inside the car and what comes out in terms of driving performance. Of course, the low space utilization value is not disregarded here, but in a sports car test, space utilization is not a prerequisite anyway.

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