From April 2011

Significant profit at Porsche SE

691 million euro profit after tax in the first quarter of 2011 / capital increase yields issue proceeds of around 4.9 billion euro

Stuttgart, 29 April, 2011. Porsche Automobil Holding SE (Porsche SE), Stuttgart, remains on the right track. In the first three months of the current fiscal year 2011, profit after tax totaled 691 million euro. This was mainly due to the very good development of its Porsche and Volkswagen investments. The profits from investments accounted for at equity were 606 million euro in the first three months. They comprise the share of net profit generated by these investments that is attributable to Porsche SE. Read more

Limited edition racing car: 911 GT3 RS 4.0

GT3 RS edition with four-litre displacement

Stuttgart. With the 911 GT3 RS 4.0, one of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart’s most popular, coveted and successful racing pedigree production cars is entering the home straight. Limited to 600 vehicles, the 911 GT3 RS 4.0 brings together in a road car all the attributes that have made the Porsche 911 GT3 a serial winner on the race track. The new model purveys thoroughbred motorsport technology to its innermost core. The flat engine’s crankshaft has been lifted unchanged from the 911 GT3 RSR racing car’s six cylinder engine and the forged pistons’ connecting rods are fashioned from titanium. The four-litre displacement sports engine, the biggest 911 model line engine ever, is also the most powerful naturally aspirated engine with 125 hp/litre (92 kW). It achieves its maximum power of 368 kW (500 hp) at 8,250 revs per minute. The engine delivers its maximum torque of 460 Newton metres at 5,750 rpm. Read more

80 years of Porsche designs

Porsche Engineering – pioneering technology and trailblazing innovations

Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has been the leading manufacturer of premium sports cars for more than six decades. However, the historic roots of the Porsche brand go back much further than that. When Ferry Porsche built the legendary Type 356 in 1948, he and his engineers were able to look back on a wealth of comprehensive technological experience. Back on 25th April 1931, Ferdinand Porsche founded and registered a design bureau named “Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Konstruktion und Beratung für Motoren- und Fahrzeugbau” in Stuttgart. Read more