Porsche 997 Generation 1 911 GT3 RS and the 911 GT3 Brochure 2006

Origin: motorsport

• More than 50 years of racing heritage
• More than 28,000 victories
• Uncompromising race engineering
• Every car designed exclusively around the driver

At Porsche, we have always based our success on two fundamental principles: technical innovation and its consistent application to the genuine needs of the driver.

Porsche 911 996 Brochure - 1998

Evolution 911

Everything we know so far

It was the last week of May 1948 when it rolled out of a small workshop in the Austrian village of Gmund - the realisation of Dr Ferdinand Porsche's dream to build a sports car bearing his own name. The collective wisdom of 50 years' of technological achievement distilled into four wheels and an engine.

Porsche 911 997 US Brochure 2007

Beautifully engineered.

Comfortably quick.

The true genius of an idea can be judged by how well it stands the test of time. For well over four decades, the Porsche 911 has literally defined what a sports car should be.

There have been continual changes, enhancements and upgrades to be sure, but the original formula, the basic design, remains surprisingly and thankfully intact.

The Porsche 991

From a stroke of genius. From strength to strength. The 911 997 Turbo

In 1905, the Swiss engineer, Dr. Alfred Büchi, filed the first ever patent for a turbocharged piston engine. The fundamental principle, now a century old, remains unchanged to this day: to use the energy latent within the exhaust flow from the engine to increase overall performance.