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The story of Porsche’s GTS badge goes back to November 1963 and the unveiling of the 904 Carrera GTS at the Solitude race circuit in Stuttgart. This now legendary street-legal racing machine featured a plastic body to reduce weight (giving it a distinct advantage at the track), which helped the mid-engined model win the 1964 Targa Florio road race with works drivers, Antonio Pucci and Colin Davis, at the controls. Herbert Linge and Gianni Balzarini followed close behind, taking second place in their factory 904 entry, ahead of the Scuderia Sant’Ambroeus Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ driven by Roberto Bussinello and Nino Todaro.
Over the next three decades, only two other Porsche models wore the GTS badge: the 924 Carrera GTS in 1981 and the formidable 928 GTS in 1992. In 2007, however, the badge returned, although not on a sports car, but on the Cayenne. It was a move which confused many marque enthusiasts, but Porsche’s plan was to create a new line of models wearing the
