German Sports Cars : Porsche 911 GT3

Porsche 911 GT3

The Porsche 911 GT3 is a high performance version of the Porsche 911 sports car. It is the latest in a long line of high-performance models, which began with the 1973 911 RS. The GT3, after the FIA ​​GT class was named after it offered a 3.8-liter six-cylinder atmospheric, the unit used in the Porsche 962 and Porsche 911 GT1 race car is based.

have developed since its inception in 1999, a number of variants for both road and rail to the area were recorded. The current range (997) consists of two blocks and three racing models. Porsche is also developing a hybrid version that uses two electric motors and a Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, originally developed for Formula One.

The GT3 has a successful racing career, both in creating a national Porsche Carrera Cup series, the Porsche Supercup and won many international championships and endurance races, including the GT class of the American Le Mans Series was seven, the 24 Hours of Daytona winner and 24-hour race five times.

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Concept Car : The Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid

The Porsche 918  Spyder (known internally as Project XG10) is a mid-engine sports car concept Porsche and only the 80th edition of the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010 showed conceived. It is the first plug-in hybrid cars from Porsche.

The 3.4-liter V8 engine (500 hp/370 kW) is a development of the engine in the RS Spyder Le Mans Prototype race car used. This will provide an additional by three electric motors 218 hp (163 kW) was added. The gearbox is coupled to a 7-speed Porsche itself (PDK) dual-clutch system provides power to the rear.

Two electric motors drive the wheels directly above a fixed ratio, while third electric motor is connected to the transmission and provides additional power to the rear wheels. This gives the 918 Spyder to a 0-100 kmh time in nearly 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph).

Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid

The Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid concept combines high-tech racing features with electric-mobility to offer a fascinating range of qualities. For example, it is planned to provide an emission level of just 70 grams of CO2 per kilometer on fuel consumption of only three liters/100 kilometers

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German Sports Cars : Porsche 959

German Sports Cars Porsche 959  is a sports car from Porsche from 1986 to 1989 prepared demand as group B rally car and later as a legal production car to the FIA ​​homologation regulations, a minimum number to be built on 200 Street legal units satisfy.

In 1986, she held the title as the world’s fastest street-legal production car. During the production run, it was built as the most technologically advanced road sports car ever and celebrated the forerunner of all future sports car. It was one of the first high-performance vehicles to an all-wheel drive use, the basis for Porsche’s first four-wheel drive Carrera 4 model. In fact, convinced that Porsche executives of the system of viability so well that they wanted to make all-wheel drive is standard on all versions of the 911 Turbo, starting with the 993 version. In 2004, Sports Car International named the 959 number one on the list of top sports cars of the 1980s.

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Dream Car : Porsche Boxster Spyder 2011

Porsche Boxster Spyder 2011, The draft goes like this: Take an aging sports car and parts of the RAID Corporate’m stolen for a few high-performance products, probably by a top model. Tweak the suspension tuning, throw on some wider rubber Pare to standard functions, add a smidge more horsepower and then a few cosmetic changes so that it is on the showroom floor. Finally, slap on a more expensive price.

We have seen many times do, but rarely carried out so well. With the recently updated when starting Boxster S, Porsche has developed a completely new model Spyder Boxster series, join as its new flagship. Although the two-seat follows the recipe above, we must admit that there appears to be something, but kit-based and short-sighted.

We are big fans of Porsche Boxster Spyder, but that’s almost everybody else. With an optimal mid-engine design, near-perfect suspension tuning and famous efficient brakes, the only thing entry-level Porsche lacked long-term model range is excited. We welcomed the special variants like the 550 Spyder 50th Anniversary Edition RS60 Spyder and Design Edition 2, they apparently went as quickly as they came.

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Tesla VS Porsche : Electric Sport Car VS Gasoline Sport Car

Tesla VS Porsche
Electric Sport Car VS Gasoline Sport Car

If the name of the Tesla Roadster sports in the vicinity of the new Porsche Boxster Spyder 2011 was in pencil, I was quiet. The possible things that normally differentiate against the participants are generally not very pleasant small things – a few cc’s an equally unexpected turbocharger. This we can only chew on multiple pages.

As in heaven, we get our arms around two cars driven by different sources, using very different ways of decision making power?

By considering them simply as … two sports cars. And no more speculation. Global Warming, battery industry, infrastructure and the taxation – the whole host of peripheral issues currently swirling electric vehicles – will be professionally answered by our esteemed colleagues in the journal Science. But how well these cars perform like sports cars? For babies, the Motor Trend test team cracking our knuckles in anticipation.

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Sports Car : Porsche Panamera

The Porsche Panamera (type number 970) is a four-door, four seater luxury sedan, launched 2009th It is front engine rear wheel drive with a four-wheel version also available. Although a sedan, several sources described as a sedan or a limousine.

The Panamera’s name is derived, such as the Porsche Carrera line, from the race Carrera Panamericana. Earlier prototypes and concepts of the four-door sedan, like the 1991 Porsche 989 prototype, the prototype four-door 911 is based, and built the C88 concept (a small saloon car in Germany and sold in China), was never produced taken.
The Panamera is generally considered the long-awaited fruit of the Porsche 989 concept developed in the late 1980s, some argue that it also presents as a successor to the two-door 928, but you can plan for a new 928 and on.

The Porsche Panamera Panamera S and as a direct competitor in the full-size luxury sedan like the BMW 7-Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class sold. The high performance Panamera Turbo competes in the ultra-luxury segment, in addition to the “exotic” as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Aston Martin Rapide, Maserati Quattroporte and. Similar cars include the BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo Panamera and the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class.

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Convertible Sports Cars : Porsche 911 Turbo 2010

The Porsche 911 Turbo (pronounced as Nine Eleven, German: Nine Eleven) is a luxury two-door sports car from Porsche AG, Stuttgart, Germany. It has a striking design, rear engine and independent rear suspension, a development of the crank shaft on the Porsche 356, the engine had cooled and the air-up to the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998. Since its introduction in autumn 1963, has undergone continuous development. The basic concept has remained little changed from its development.

During his lifetime, the 911 has been changed by private teams and the factory itself, for racing, rally and other automotive competition. One of the most successful racing car of all time. In the middle of the year 1970, atmospheric 911 Carrera RSR has won major world championship sports car races like the Targa Florio, Daytona, Sebring and the Nürburgring, even against prototypes. The 911-935 also derived Turbo the coveted 24 Hours of Le Mans win in 1979.

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Super Cars : Porsche Carrera GT 2010

The Porsche Carrera GT (Project Code 980) is a mid-engine sports car from Porsche in Leipzig, Made in Germany.

The development of the Porsche Carrera GT can return back to their predecessors, the 911 GT1 and LMP1-98 racing cars. Due in part to the FIA and ACO rule changes in 1998, both designs had ended. Porsche had planned at the time on a new Le Mans prototype in 1999. The car was originally to use a turbo flat-6, but was later revised to use a new V10 engine, pushing the project back to the planned completion in 2000. The V10 was a unit secretly built by Porsche for the Footwork Formula One team in 1992 but later shelved. The engine was developed for the Le Mans prototype and increased in size risen 5.7 liters.

Unfortunately, the project was done in two days of testing for the first car in mid-1999, due primarily to do the Porsche Cayenne SUV with involvement from Volkswagen and Audi build and require engineering skills are thus pulled from the motorsports division. It was also speculated that VW-Audi chairman Ferdinand Piech Audi’s new Le Mans Prototype, the Audi R8 is not the competition from Porsche in 2004 was given.

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