Christophorus - The Porsche Magazine

What exactly are the qualities of a top-notch champagne? An excursion to Moët & Chandon.

An all-electric drive with maximum efficiency. A team whose success is nearly unrivaled. Four brilliant minds from the former LMP team at the top. That’s how Porsche is starting its first Formula E season.

After thirty-one years in Australia, Viktor Grahser returned to his native Austria with one suitcase and three Porsche 356s. He broke a hole in the wall of his house and pushed one Porsche into his living room—while the other two sat in a shipping container, waiting in vain for restoration. Eleven years after Grahser died, one 356 Roadster has now been completely restored. And has found a distinguished owner.

Californian Lisa Taylor has a bit of a thing for Porsche models in vibrant colors. Whether it’s yellow, pink, or blue—it had better be bright!

November 13, 1994, is a special date in the history of motorsports. On this day, China held its first international race. At the time, the Communist regime was still striving to bolster its global profile. Spectacular races were expected to help. The historic race was held not in Beijing or Shanghai, but in Zhuhai on the South China Sea. Once a fishing village, the city had been designated a special economic zone and by the 1980s had grown to a population of over one million.

Zuffenhausen, 1938. The office of Ferdinand Porsche in the newly built Porsche plant, now known as Plant 1. Tidy, almost spartan. Not a bit of decoration on the walls.

Nürburgring, twenty-four-hour race, May 15/16, 2010. The best lap time of the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid is by no means surprising: eight minutes, 35.393 seconds.

Boston wants to achieve full climate neutrality and is charting a completely new course to get there. The city won’t ban cars from its center. They’ll still be welcome in the future — if they’re electric.

Erling Henningstad from Norway is one of the world’s first twenty thousand people interested in owning a Porsche Taycan. What prompts the wish to buy a car that you know virtually nothing about — except for the fact that it’s a Porsche?

Since 2017 Porsche has been active in Tel Aviv to discover talents and ideas for the mobility of the future — together with start-up scouts such as Sigalit Klimovsky.

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“High-Speed Chase through Downtown Aachen!” proclaimed the headline in the Aachener Nachrichten on December 15, 1951: a Porsche 356 from the German customs investigation authority dramatically pursued an Opel Kapitän through the West German border town.

Woodstock, Concorde, moon landing: in 1969 not even the sky is the limit anymore. Many western societies are shaking off the old to make way for new endeavors. With the 917 and the 914, Porsche presents two cars that could hardly be more different. How did it all come to pass?

Fifty years ago Porsche brought the mid-engine from the racetrack to series production with the 914. The latest incarnations of the engine in front of the rear axle include the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 and the 718 Boxster Spyder.

The world’s first car race started in Paris 125 years ago. In December of 2019 Neel Jani will enter the first Formula E race in Porsche’s history. Then as now, it’s about the future of motorsports.

With the new 911 Speedster, Porsche is presenting a Heritage Design package—the first in a series of iconic design options for the sports cars of today and of the future.

The Editorial for Issue 390 of Christophorus.

The members of the R Gruppe in California have been indulging their special passion for Porsche for twenty years—and neither the weather nor other people’s opinions make a shred of difference.

This Porsche 911 first touched American soil in Florida, where it’s now on display in a museum. It also wrote history in that state as the first 911 to win a major international circuit race: the GT class in the 1966 running of the 24 Hours of Daytona.

There’s no instruction manual for getting started in the world of motorsports. Karting is one possibility. The Porsche Racing Experience is another.