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Complete vehicles
The complete vehicle development has always been a
strength and passion of
Porsche Engineering.
Excellent design
Turning design dreams into
reality for customers and for
Porsche: such as the 911.
Contents
system-provider, Porsche
of both worlds.
manufacturer.
Editorial
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Complete
Vehicle
Chassis
Testing
Insights
Engine
Decades of
engine power
Seventy-five years
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of Porsche
engineering
services
System Porsche
From theory to
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confirmation
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Complete vehicle
competence at
Porsche
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Contents
address:
info@porsche-engineering.com
Special
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Milestones in Customer
always Porsche.
Development from
1931 2006
Styling
Electrics &
Electronics
Industrial
Engineering
Drivetrain
Body and
Safety
Production
Engineering
Unconventional ways
motive development
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industry
the future
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development
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Accelerated power
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of innovation
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From designing
to the start of
production
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Editorial
Dear Readers,
globe.
Insights
tive engineer.
Insights
development of a sixteen-cylinder
racing car for the new 750 kg racing formula. The first test drives of
the P racing car (the P stands for
Porsche) were conducted as early
as January 1934, and the new car
wrote automobile history with its
numerous racing victories and
speed records.
1930.
The Porsche Type 64 is considered the ancestor of all Porsche sports cars.
Insights
Porsche Type 60 (V3) at the exit of the Porsche-Villa in Stuttgart-Feuerbach around 1936.
Insights
Ferdinand Porsche at the drawing board of the Porsche Engineering Office in the Kronenstrae 24.
Insights
trend for the wide range of passenger cars coming out of Wolfsburg
for the coming years. The most
famous customer developments
were the VW-Porsche 914 presented in autumn 1969, and the Volkswagen Development Project EA
425, which made its appearance
in 1976 as the Porsche 924.
Technical drawing of the Cisitalia Grand Prix race car (Type 360).
developments.
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Complete Vehicle
Four-door sedan by Porsche (Type 542) developed for the American car maker Studebaker.
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Complete Vehicle
The VW 38 (Type 60) from 1938 already has the look of the later VW Beetle.
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Complete Vehicle
Development of the robust compact car Lada Samara with front wheel drive for the Russian
state-run Avto VAZ in 1984.
Opel Zafira Complete vehicle development to a given concept for the Adam Opel AG.
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Chassis
System Porsche
The first construction order for Porsche comes from Wanderer (Type 7).
From the start, the Porsche Engineering Office has pursued the objective of constantly improving automotive technology with trend-setting solutions. In its very first
year of work, Ferdinand Porsches team of technicians reached a milestone in the
history of technology: the torsion-bar suspension known as the System Porsche.
The innovative wheel suspension
Drawing of the System Porsche torsion-bar suspension constructed under the Type 17
designation.
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Chassis
The chassis of the Type 22 Grand Prix racing car developed for the Auto Union.
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Chassis
pension.
ing in the currently selected program. This system gives the sporty
comfort.
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Testing
Cayman S in the climate wind tunnel at the R & D Center in Weissach. Real stretches of road can be simulated here under real climate
conditions, such as the Townes Pass in the USA.
ly opened.
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Testing
The new Development Center in Weissach was built in 1971. The test track is in the
background.
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Testing
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Porsche Study C88 for the Chinese market in the wind tunnel of the Development Center in
Weissach.
Powerful
Engine
The Porsche Type 550 Spyder with the Type 547 Fuhrmann engine constructed as a racing
engine (1953).
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Engine
Powerful
Porsche 356.
eration.
output of up to 75 bhp.
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Powerful
Engine
The 12-cylinder-suction engine was exclusively developed by Porsche for the FootworkArrows racing team.
nance intervals.
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Styling
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Styling
transportation design.
design.
tional instruments.
stage.
Apart from designing cars, Porsche stylists work on everything that moves.
The range of designs is covering commercial vehicles, motorcycles and boats for example.
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A fully networked system takes care of all electronic data exchange in the Cayenne.
bility).
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Porsche Traction Management (PTM) of the 911 Turbo with electronically controlled multipledisk clutch.
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Industrial Engineering
Free-thinking solutions
The original of all tractors developed by Porsche: the Volkstraktor (Type 110).
military engineering.
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Free-thinking solutions
Industrial Engineering
ACGO GmbH also makes use of Porsche know-how for its Fendt tractor.
tion.
ics.
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Drivetrain
Transmitting Power
The Porsche 962 C with Porsche double-clutch transmission was used successfully in racing in 1987.
systems.
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VW Kommandeurwagen command
Transmitting Power
Drivetrain
car.
The drive of the Type 360 Cisitalia Grand Prix racing car with an output of 385 bhp (1948).
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The Auto Union P-Racing car (Type 22) on the Nrburgring in 1936.
reasons.
plete vehicle.
work was so clean that the Volkswagen had no welded seams that
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First aerodynamic tests were carried out on the Porsche 356 using pasted woolen threads.
just 0.296.
ty potentials.
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Production Engineering
start of production.
starting in 2009.
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Milestones
Special
1931
1933
1934
1937
1939
Daimler-Benz AG
designation Type 64
and, respectively,
Working on behalf of
behalf of NSU-Werke
The Porsche
Engineering Office
Type 60K10,
features an air-
Engineering Office
the assignment to
Porsche develops a
Porsche Engineering
aerodynamic alumini-
Type 12 compact
Porsches torsion
Reichsverband der
Powered by a 3500-
Deutschen Auto-
Berlin-Rome long-
cept.
mobilindustrie
the T 80 is to break
distance race.
(Reich Association
sequent Volkswagen
of the German
Beetle.
Automotive Industry)
powered by a 16-
Developing torsion
cylinder mid-engine
bar suspension,
is built by Porsche
War.
the Type 82 VW
Porsche creates a
en-gineers according
and construction
all-wheel-drive Type
model, as it is
87 Kommandeur-
called, is based on
wagen or Com-
many decades in
racing formula.
Ferdi-nand Porsches
the subsequent
manders Car.
Peoples Tractor
Construction of a
German Peo-ples
diesel tractor.
Kbelwagen or the
Car.
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Special
Milestones
1942
1947
1952
1954
1955
As part of a tender
from the German
The Type 360 Grand
oped on behalf of
Porsche KG receives
all-wheel-drive Type
a major development
597 Jagdwagen or
assignment from US
wagen is acknowl-
two-year period of
edged to be techni-
cooperation,
Porsche develops
assignment is award-
four-door saloon
political reasons to
regrettably never to
manufacturer of cars
and motorcycles.
part of Porsches US
Porsche KG receives
the assignment to
build the Type 205
Maus armoured car
driven by a combined gasoline and
electrical power system and weighing a
total of 189 tonnes
following completion
of the design and
customer.
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Working on behalf of
Volkswagen AG,
Porsches construction engineers develop Type 672, a compact concept car
with rear-wheel drive.
This prototype is
powered by an extraflat six-cylinder
underfloor engine.
Milestones
1959
1960
1961
1971
In summer the
Development Division
Conceived as the
Porsche presents a
complete range of
aircraft engines at
the German
Industrial Fair in
Hanover. Engine output ranges from the
65-bhp Type 678/1
all the way to Type
678/4 developing no
less than 75 bhp
starter output.
potential successor
to the VW Beetle in
ment in 1958 to
develop a battle
fastback design,
tank, construction of
is completed in
spring 1960 on
behalf of Volks-
sequently going to
wagen.
Special
1973
Porsche presents
the Longlife Car
Research Project at
the Frankfurt Motor
Show, a concept car
designed for twenty
years of reliable use.
new Development
Centre in Weissach.
In the years to
come, the Weissach
Development Centre
completes not only
numerous design
and construction
concepts for Volkswagen, but also
projects such as a
compact four-cylinder power unit for
Spanish car maker
Seat or a complete
small car for state
Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (Lada).
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Special
Milestones
1975
1977
1979
1981
1982
In cooperation with
The SAVE (Rapid
Airbus Industries,
Ambulant Pre-Clinic
Initial Treatment)
Referred to within
the Company as
opment of an innova-
The Measuring
Centre for
ergonomic cockpit
Environmental
passenger aircraft.
self-sufficient
tem is made up of a
On behalf of the
German Federal
oped in 1979 on
Ministry of Research
Federal Ministry of
consistently enh-
Weissach Develop-
anced in an ongoing
firefighting system.
focuses in particular
1984.
on fuel economy,
research project is
After development
emissions.
assignment EA 425
brigade by means of
conducted on behalf
trendsetting techni-
Porsche develops an
of Volkswagen for a
cal equipment.
successor to the VW
the beginning of a
climate pressure
many years.
chamber.
front-engined sports
car under the name
Porsche 924.
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engineers in Weissach
exhaust emission
Using the flat-six
world, is opened in
Fully computerised,
neers in Weissach
dynamometers in
Weissach simulate
3200 conceived to
Milestones
1983
1984
1987
1988
Special
1990
The Weissach
Development Centre
slightest interruption
Porsche develops
is further enhanced
Series is an all-new
and upgraded by a
construction with an
torque.
on behalf of state
aluminium-plastic
monocoque body.
unit developed on
In spring Porsche AG
750-bhp V8 racing
behalf of British
starts assembly of
technologies. Apart
engine running on
is conceived parti-
the Mercedes-Benz
methanol.
international makes
demands made by
other manufacturers
McLaren MP4
road conditions in
opment activities,
Formula 1 racing
on behalf of various
Mercedes-Benz AG
customers.
struction of the
body-in-white as well
as the final assembly
process.
the dominating
power unit in
Formula 1 from
1984 to 1986.
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Special
Milestones
1991
1993
In a joint venture
The 3.5-litre twelve-
develop a high-per-
formance sports
by Porsche is sup-
plied exclusively to
1991 Formula 1
Zuffenhausen Plant
season.
parallel to the
Mercedes-Benz
E 500.
1994
2002
On behalf of Adam
Porsche Engineering
Customer
wholly-owned sub-
A highlight in the
Development starts
officially commences
motorcycle manuf-
ment of a compact
acturer Harley
van according to a
on August 1st.
Davidson conducted
pre-determined concept.
Porsche AG takes
part in an international presentation at
the Peking World
Trade Centre, together with 19 other
manufacturers. The
C88 family car presented on the occasion is a concept
vehicle developed by
Porsche Engineering
Services especially
for the Chinese market.
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2001
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