Porsche

Six-figure donation to youth charity after court victory

Stuttgart/London, 7/7/2008 -- Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, and its sales subsidiary Porsche Cars Great Britain, won their fight against the increase in the London congestion charge. The signature of a consent order by an administrative court in London has finally swept the plans of the former Mayor, Ken Livingstone, to introduce an unfair and disproportionate daily charge of £25 per driver in central London off the table. The agreement also included the award of legal costs. Porsche will donate these costs, expected to be a six-figure sum, to the British youth charity Skidz.

Porsche Carrera 4 with Electronically Controlled All-Wheel Drive

Stuttgart, 6/25/2008 -- Showing the dynamic attitude typical of the brand, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, are continuing the generation change of the 911 model series. Just a few weeks after the new Porsche 911s with classic rear-wheel drive, the all-wheel-drive versions Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S are now entering the market in both Coupé and Cabriolet guise.

June 2008 -- The new dual clutch transmission is presented for the first time to approximately 900 engineers and press representatives at the VDI 'Transmissions in Vehicles' Event in Friedrichshafen. The 7DT sports transmission is particularly suited for applications with high engine speed requirements. Gear changes without traction interruption allow for very good acceleration and vehicle handling with low fuel consumption. The transmission was developed in Kressbronn, Brandenburg, and Schweinfurt; it is produced at the Brandenburg site of ZF's Car Driveline Technology division.

Porsche 911 Pedal Cars for Children

Stuttgart, 6/20/2008 -- Beaming faces in Zuffenhausen: today four children, aged five and six, each collected their own ‘Model 911’ pedal car from the museum of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. They were the lucky winners of a raffle which had taken place at the “Bietigheim Wonderland”, an event held in Bietigheim on May 30 and 31, 2008.

Porsche 911 Pedal Cars for Children

Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, did not miss the opportunity to greet the young guests himself and hand them their prizes in person:

Prestigious Journalists and PR Experts Join Porsche Team

Stuttgart, 6/19/2008 -- Porsche is adapting the organization of its Press Department to the new structure of the group: Anton Hunger (59), for many years Head of Press and Public Relations of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and – since November 2007 – also of Porsche SE, will be exclusively responsible for managing the newly-created Press and Public Relations Department of the Holding from July 1. Together with him, Frank Gaube (47) will be changing over to Porsche SE, where he will head the Financial Press and Investor Relations Department, with the continued support of Frank Scholtys (47).

International Partner with Experience – Christian Boe is New Managing Director

Stuttgart, 6/18/2008 -- Porsche Deutschland GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, has sold the Porsche Center Mannheim to Penske Automotive Europe GmbH, Wiesbaden, a member of the Penske Group. From July 1, 2008, the Center will be doing business under the name of Penske Sportwagen-zentrum GmbH, Mannheim, and will be responsible for sales and service of Porsche vehicles in the Rhine-Neckar area.

Nature Conservationists Praise Commitment of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Stuttgart, 6/12/2008 -- Today Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, and his daughter Stephanie ‘christened’ two imperial eagle chicks in Stuttgart, naming them Asta and Artus. The two young birds of the species aquila heliaca, which is threatened worldwide with extinction, hatched six weeks ago in Greifvogelpark Hellenthal, falconer Horst Niesters’ sanctuary park for birds of prey in the Eifel region. This successful hatching is regarded as a sensation in expert circles.

Award for Services to the Federal State of Baden- Württemberg

Stuttgart, 6/12/2008 -- Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE and of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, has been presented with the Staufer Gold Medal by the Minister of the Interior of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Heribert Rech. The presentation of this medal, which is the highest honor Baden-Würt­temberg can confer, took place yesterday evening at a reception held by the Porsche Board in the factory Ca­sino at the car manufacturer’s main works in Zuffenhausen, to mark Wolfgang Porsche’s sixty-fifth birthday.

The motorsport legend of Weissach is 80 years old

Stuttgart, 6/11/2008 -- Today, on June 11, 2008, Herbert Linge, former works racing driver and plant manager of the Development Center of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is celebrating his eightieth birthday. This man of many talents personally experienced and took part in shaping the development of the Porsche enterprise over the past six decades.

New 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera and 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera S Even More Economical and Powerful

Stuttgart, 6/6/2008 -- Starting on 5 July, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is introducing the next generation of the 911 model series. The four new models – two Coupés and two Cabriolets – with classic rear-wheel drive offer an even higher standard of dynamic performance thanks to their all-new flat-six power units displacing 3.6 and, respectively, 3.8 litres. And the introduction for the first time of direct fuel injection on a Porsche sports car, together with the optional double-clutch gearbox Porsche-Doppelkupplung (PDK), makes the new 911 even more sporting and dynamic.

The sportiest cabriolets and sports cars come from Zuffenhausen

Stuttgart, 6/6/2008 -- Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has once again landed an important public prize for its premium sports cars. Readers of the well-known monthly magazine “sport auto“ have voted two Porsche models as the sportiest cars: yesterday evening, the Porsche Boxster S was named as the best cabriolet in the up to € 80,000 EUR price category and the Porsche 911 GT2 as the best supersports car.

The specialist “sport auto“ magazine has been holding this reader vote on the subject of “The sportiest cars” since 1980. Porsche has been the repeated winner of this public prize for 28 years, focusing on driving dynamics and sportiness.

New Generation Porsche 911s Combine Increased Performance with Better Fuel Efficiency

Atlanta, June 6, 2008 -- Porsche® today disclosed photos and details for the next generation 911® model series. Four new 2009 Porsche 911 models go on sale in September in North America – the 911 Carrera Coupe, 911 Carrera Cabriolet, 911 Carrera S Coupe, and 911 Carrera S Cabriolet.

2009 Porsche 911 Model Series

60 years of the sports car – a small company becomes the most profitable automobile manufacturer

Stuttgart, 5/29/2008 -- Porsche celebrates its anniversary. Exactly 60 years ago the cornerstone was laid for the family-operated industrial company, whose rise from modest beginnings to become one of the most important sports car manufacturers in the world no one back then would have ever foreseen.

Franz Blank has died

Stuttgart, 5/29/2008 -- Franz Blank, for many years the Chairman of the Works Council and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, died on May 24, 2008 at the age of 82. Blank, who was born on September 4, 1925 in Horb, joined Porsche in 1953 as a fitter. He was soon elected as Chairman of the Porsche Works Council in 1955. He continued to hold this position until May 22, 1987.

Countdown to the July 11th start in Moscow has begun

ALÈS, FRANCE, May 21, 2008 – The cool, still air in an abandoned coal mine in the south of France echoes to the sound of a Porsche V8 at full song. Every few minutes the source of the noise, a 2008 Porsche Cayenne Transsyberia test mule, blasts into view briefly, only to turn around and go roaring off again into the woods. Its sides are streaked with inky, black mud, kicked up by its huge tires while testing equipment mounted on the car gathers data that will later be analyzed by engineers from Porsche's Motorsports department in Weissach.

ATLANTA, May 14, 2008 – For the fourth year running, America’s most affluent consumers have declared Porsche the most prestigious car available today. The Luxury Institute’s 2008 independent nationwide survey of luxury auto brands rated Porsche® tops against eleven of the world’s most prestigious car brands. Lexus and Mercedes ranked second and third, respectively.

Porsche Named Top Prestigious Luxury Automobile Brand for 2008 by Luxury Institute

Stuttgart, 5/7/2008 -- Once again Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has been successful in the International Engine of the Year Awards. With its Porsche 911 Turbo-Drive, the sports car manufacturer has underpinned its position in a field of high performance competitors, receiving the coveted “Best Performance Engine Award” for the first time. For ten years now, this prize has been awarded by the British specialist journal “Engine Technology International” for outstanding engine characteristics.

Porsche 3.6 Liter 480 PS Boxer engine

Shareholder, Member of the Supervisory Board, Family Spokesman and Entrepreneur

Stuttgart, 5/6/2008 -- Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Shareholder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, as well as
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, is celebrating his 65th birthday on May 10, 2008. Ferdinand (‘Ferry’) Porsche’s youngest son, who was born in Stuttgart, has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the sports car manufacturer since 1978. He has also been family spokesman since the death of his father Ferry in 1998.

April Sales slightly down year-on-year

Stuttgart, 5/1/2008 -- Despite the increasingly poor economic outlook, sales by
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, in the USA and Canada in April 2008 show a good result: Deliveries of 3,099 vehicles to customers were only 5 percent below the previous year’s figure of 3,248 units.

Schoolgirls worked at Stuttgart sports car manufacturer’s training center on “Girls Day”

Stuttgart, 4/24/2008 -- Today, 30 schoolgirls aged between 13 and 15 experienced at first hand how attractive technical professions in the automotive industry can be for women. As a part of the nationwide “Girls Day”, they visited Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart. In the sports car manufacturer’s training workshop, the girls became acquainted with the jobs of mechatronics technician, vehicle painter, vehicle interior designer, and construction/industrial mechanic.

Porsche Mechanic for the Day: Schoolgirls worked at Stuttgart sports car manufacturer’s training center