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What are all the types of Porsches?

Updated: 11/20/2022
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There are 2 categories of Porsche , racecars and street cars. The answer to the question of what types of Porsche can be answered in more detail by a review of the street versions of their racecars. Since the company started out family owned and was small their first car was the model 356 (since Ferdinand Porsche the man who founded the company which bears the family name was the designer of the VW Beetle for Hitler) which bears many similarity in shape, flat 4-cylinder-air-cooled engine location, steering, and suspension system to the Beetle. The next model after the 356 was the Porsche 911 (produced with minor refinements from 1963-1989) which had a flat six cylinder air-cooled engine in the rear. There was also a cheaper 4 -cylinder version called the 912 produced in the mid-1960-1974? There was also the mid-engined Porsche 914 (4 cylinder air-cooled VW type IV engine 70-95 H.P. 1.7-2.0L displacement variants). In 1978 appeared the 928 flagship model (seen in the movie Risky Business driven by Tom Cruise (Joel) with a V8-cylinder front engine that was water-cooled like the normal cars of the competition (Corvette, Mustang, etc.), also introduced was the 924 and subsequent 944 (4-cylinder water-cooled front engine rear transmission/drive). In 1989 Porsche made major upgrades to the 911 to come out with the 964 (both normally aspirated and later turbo charged variants). Next came the 993, 996, 997, and currently the 991. The Boxster (model 986) appeared and shared many parts with the 996 ( first water-cooled street version 911) except the location was mid-engined like some exotics (Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc). You could say the 986 was the son of the 914 series of Porsche. Porsche was a prolific company which experimented in many different engineering designs: there exists Porsche farm tractors, Porsche/Mooney airplane, limited production exotica (Porsche 959, Carrera GT, and upcoming Porsche 918 Spyder (Hybrid). Currently the best selling product is their SUV the Cayenne and sedan (Panamera) as well as the GT3 and GT2 track focused 911 variants. This short answer does not attempt to cover all types of Porsche and definitely leaves out the racecars which are some of the most successful cars ever to race on the planet.

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