No. 228

Total 911

The world’s finest Porsche magazine

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Welcome
I’ve been doing some digging for a recent 9WERKS online article regarding the lightest water-cooled 911s. Now Porsche has long subscribed to the idea of lighter sports cars being able to upset more powerful brethren on the race track, and that’s why
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Opening Shot
The Dakar programme is now well under way: journalists have driven the new off-road 911 on both sand and ice, while the company has also released new livery designs mimicking historic rally exploits. Here, the Dakar is attracting admiration from Saha
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Update
One of three 959s that entered the 1986 Paris-Dakar rally has been sympathetically restored to working order by Porsche Heritage The Paris-Dakar rally will need little in the way of introduction to Total 911 readers. Porsche has a long history with t
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Future PLC Quay House, The Ambury Bath, BA1 1UA, UK Editorial Editor-at-large Lee Sibleylee.sibley@futurenet.comArt Editor Jamie Schildhauer Operations Editor Cliff Hope Contributors Andy Brookes, James Bullen, Alisdair Cusick, Kieron Fennelly, Kyle
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Views
Contact Total 911 Facebook /total911magazine Email editorial@total911.com Dear Sir, I’m always surprised no one points out the headlights on Pinky Lai’s 996 design in the studio (see photo). The ultimate headlight on the car wasn’t what he worke
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Spotted
Interesting and eclectic 911s. That’s our monthly goal with Spotted: to highlight 911s for sale that are a bit different from the norm. This month’s entry is certainly that, and no, it’s not an autocorrect error in the search bar when typing ‘eclecti
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New Heights
Apparently, the idea for an off-road 911 was first explored with the 991. Development reached the point of running prototypes, but the management got cold feet and the project stalled. It’s me who’s got the cold feet today, though. That’s because I’m
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AN INTERVIEW WITH Frank Moser
I started with Porsche in 1996,” reveals Frank Moser. That was 27 years ago, in the material technologies department before he transferred to whole vehicle development. There, Frank worked with Wolfgang Dürheimer, then member of the board for researc
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Porsche Index Early 911s
Until the Carrera 2.7 RS debuted in 1973, the S was the flagship of the 911 range. Launched in 1968 (for Europe only – Americans had to make do with the similar spec but less-powerful 911L), it used an uprated 2.0-litre engine with a higher compressi
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RENNSPORT Rennwagen
At the end of the 1960s Porsche had been engaged in something of a wrestling match with the FIA, the international motorsport governing body, over the homologation of its 911R for Touring Car racing. Stuttgart had been left smarting, for it knew the
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High-performance Lighting FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE CARS
We arrive under the cover of darkness. Weissach is a necessarily secretive place, but that darkness today isn’t to hide anything we’re not supposed to see, but rather to help demonstrate a new Porsche headlight technology. In what it’s describing as
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How The 911’s Suspension Developed
Throughout the 15-year career of the 356, Porsche had managed to adapt the swing axle rear suspension sprung with torsion bars that Dr Porsche had originally designed for the Beetle. In the early 1950s, the swing rear axle was a conventional configur
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Klaus Ziegler BODYWORK MASTER
Klaus Ziegler began his career in 1956 as an apprentice at Karosseriebau Erhard Wendler in Reutlingen. Founded in 1840, Wendler was by the 1920s an established coach builder and car manufacturer, in the days when companies used third-party bodies for
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Living the Legend
Model 3.0 CARRERA SC Year 1982 Acquired JANUARY 2018 Model 997.1 TURBO Year 2008 Acquired AUGUST 2011 Model 997 GT2 Year 2008 Acquired FEBRUARY 2013 Model 997.2 GT3 RS Year 2010 Acquired MAY 2016 Model 991 GT3 TOURING Year 2018 Acquired FEBR
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Data File
911s in the data file are organised in rows according to release date, beginning with the very first model in 1964. Many models were available in Coupe, Targa and Cabriolet forms, with the option of automatic transmission. Here, data has been provide
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Porsche Moment
This family photo was taken at Zell am See in summer 1950. Many will recognise Dr Porsche on the left, but not the young fellow beside him. That’s 27-year-old Harald Wagner, who was visiting the Austrian home of his aunt Aloisa (to Harald’s left) and

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