Wheels Australia - June 2018

@wheelsaustralia 61 TURNS Porsche’s 70th birthday sees the marque in ruder health than ever before.Wheels celebrates the company ...

IT FEELS almost sacrilegious to cherrypick just three cars from seven decades of Porsche heritage, none of which are 911s, but t ...

throwback in comparison, with its purist manual gearbox and normally aspirated engine but it featured a carbon tub and subframe, ...

64 whichcar.com.au/wheels 1974 Porsche 930 911 Turbo Engineers Ferdinand Piech and Hans Mezger began toying with turbochargers d ...

@wheelsaustralia 65 orsche 901 911 w known as 911 was originally introduced as the 901 its internal ‘Typ 901’ designation) at th ...

e mid-engined maestros ewd Porsche buyers should not overlook late-model six-cylinder Cayman d Boxster models, according to our ...

trend seems set to continue its upward march. Wheels’ own Michael Stahl is prime example of a 911 buyer who got the timing right ...

GT racing marks the intersection of Porsche’s road car and racing businesses. Its current GTE, GT3,andGT4racersallstartlifealong ...

@wheelsaustralia 69 Ferdinand Porsche designed successful Formula 1 cars in the ’20s and ’30s for Mercedes and Auto Union, but h ...

Porsche doesn’t finish second very well. Operationally, Porsche is the best in the world, no question. They are meticulous and u ...

involved with the first GT3 and every GT3 RS since. I’ve developed Boxster, the Cayman and even the Cayenne. In the beginning I ...

72 whichcar.com.au/wheels eum Night It’s a lock-in at the shrine of Porsche’s heritage: the company collection at Zuffenhausen a ...

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74 whichcar.com.au/wheels T’S EASY to get overwhelmed at the Porsche Museum. The public have left the building and we’re led fro ...

@wheelsaustralia 75 ABOVE: THE 1974 CARRERA 3.0 RSR (CAR #74) IS ARGUABLY THE FINEST MEETING OF AESTHETICS AND ABILITY IN A ‘CLA ...

76 whichcar.com.au/wheels BELOW: 918 SPYDER BECAME THE FIRST PRODUCTION ROAD CAR TO BREAK THE 7-MINUTE BARRIER AROUND THE NURBUR ...

@wheelsaustralia 77 I feel compelled to touch it, this thing lifted by Carroll Shelby, Bruce McLaren, Jacky Ickx, Derek Bell, Gr ...

ABOVE, FROM LEFT: BIRCH GEARKNOB FROM V10-POWERED CARRERA GT OF 2004-2007; 908 RACE CAR BODY FROM 1968 WEIGHED JUST 130KG; COCKP ...

@wheelsaustralia 79 1948 PORSCHE 356/2 GMUND COUPE 1959 PORSCHE TYP 754 (911 PROTOTYPE) 1966 911 2.0 COUPE 1973 911 CARRERA RS 2 ...

80 whichcar.com.au/wheels BELOW: THE 911 SC CAMPAIGNED IN THE 1978 SAFARI RALLY BY SWEDISH LEGEND BJORN WALDEGARD ...