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Porsche 908

Porsche 908

Porsche is the world's leading sports car manufacturer. Its history is a process of evolution of one idea, lasting more than half a century. This process was initiated by the Austrian engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who opened his design office in Stuttgart in 1931. By order of Hitler in the late 30s. he developed the rear-engined small car Volkswagen Beetle, and ten years later his son, Ferry Porsche, built the first sports model, the Porsche 356, on the Beetle chassis. Its small-scale production was organized in 1948 at a sawmill in the Austrian village of Gmünd. The car proved to be surprisingly popular, and in 1950 the company returned to Stuttgart, where it was awarded a contract for the supply of bodies with the local Reutter atelier. A year later, she entered the American market, which for many years became her main sales market.

Today Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG is the most profitable automobile company in the world with the highest profit per unit of production.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Porsche 908

It’s late 1967, and Porsche has just lost the World Sportscar Manufacturers Championship to Ferrari by just two points.

For the 1968 season, the sport’s governing body, the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), announced new rules and regulations partly in an effort to reduce speeds during the season’s “crown jewel” endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The previous year, the most slippery cars were doing 220 mph down the Mulsanne straight at the Circuit de la Sarthe during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and so the FIA reduced the maximum allowed engine capacity – and in doing so, allowed Porsche to even the odds against its more powerful competition.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Porsche 908 Porsche’s Ferdinand Piëch committed the company to developing and building the 25 copies of a new 4.5-liter car, the 917, necessary for homologation to qualify it for international competition—with the explicit goal of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970. In the meantime—and until that car was ready—Chief Engineer Hans Mezger got the green light to set to work on a totally new 3.0-liter 8-cylinder engine for Group 6 competition. This was significant as it was the first time the company would build an engine from scratch to suit the largest size allowed in prototype racing.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Porsche 908

Overall, the 908 is based on the 907 that came before it, but there were some sizable changes, engine aside. While fibreglass was again utilized for the bodies, new 3.0-liter flat-8 weighed just under 400 pounds, sitting in its home of a steel tubular chassis with a thoroughly revised rear section to accommodate the all-new engine and type-916 5-speed gearbox.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Porsche 908

With more power comes more responsibility, ably handled by an upgrade to center-lock 15-inch wheels and tires to better put the approximately 350+ horsepower horsepower to the ground. The larger wheels would also accommodate larger brake calipers and discs to slow the faster car.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Porsche 908

The first chassis produced were closed coupes, and there were a choice of long- or short-tail rear ends, and even some aero devices on the long-tail versions that the factory experimented with. The 908s would go on, in coupe and spyder forms, to be one of Porsche’s most successful and long-tenured models, with some running professionally into the early 1980s in the hands of privateers.

Design Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Under the hood Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

Interior Porsche 908 Langheck Coupe

The Porsche 908 is a piece of motorsports history, built in the days when race cars had only one job to do: go fast.

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