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Porsche Service
Posted by in Uncategorized on December 28, 2009
Porsche – a reputation built on quality without compromise
As an experienced driver, you know how important you keep your Porsche in tip-top condition. Regular maintenance will prolong the life of your car and identify defects before they are catastrophic.
Porsche has built its reputation on innovative design, performance and lightweight excellence. Booking a Porsche service is carried out with care and precision, is of vital importance in maintaining the performance of the sports car you drive.
Porsche facts you may not know
The history of the Porsche name in car design begins with Ferdinand Porsche, Sr., who as chief designer at the Austrian manufacturer Austro-Daimler. His feeling for motor sport and compact cars was demonstrated by the success on the racetrack to the test. But in 1929, after the merger of Daimler-Benz, his work was when the company decided to focus on frozen bigger and more luxurious Mercedes-Benz cars to concentrate.
Porsche left Daimler-Benz and started his own design firm in 1931, along with his son, Ferdinand junior (or Ferry) Porsche.
Ferry had associated himself with the car mechanic at an early age and had learned to drive at the age of 10. Both ran the business, employs a number of experienced designers.
It was not long before she was secured some corporate design jobs, such as with the original Auto Union Audi Company) (and Porsche, the design engine behind their cars.
In 1934, design work on a small car was supported by the National Socialist Party, which wanted to see an affordable car for working Germans. Originally named the Porsche 60, it has been officially) known as the Volkswagen AG (Auto-people.
In 1938, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr., Auto Union racing team could manage and went into the new Volkswagen plant in the production of the Volkswagen, which began in 1939. However, at Volkswagen’s plant a few cars when war was declared, and this led to the production switched production from civilian to military vehicles.
At the end of World War II, the Porsche family were asked by the government, French design and build a French version of the Volkswagen, but with political resistance and both Porsche ceased to be arrested for war crimes and respected without trial, had a strong 500,000 each demanded for their release.
Enough money for his son, Ferry Porsche, are paid release. However, senior Porsche have forced more than a year and a half, and to help Renault before his son raised the money to him, was held exempt.
Ferry Porsche to restore the design of business in Austria and received a contract for the Grand Prix racing cars for Piero Dusio design. The Porsche 360 Cisitalia was born.
Porsche successfully developed their own vehicle, the Porsche 356, which was based on the original Volkswagen, and received its first contract in 1947.
In 1949, Volkswagen had started) only to his own future (after a failed post-sale attempts, and a former senior manager at Opel, Heinrich Nordhoff, who was brought into the factory running. He approached with Ferry Porsche to help design at Volkswagen, to improve the “Beetle”. In return, would Porsche receive assistance in the manufacture and distribution of their vehicles, plus a profit participation.
Thus, in 1949, Porsche was founded back in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany. The production of the Porsche 356 has resumed and began developing a new engine – which became known as the Carrera.
These developments have established the Porsche name as an independent producer of motor vehicles.
In 1961 work began on the replacement model for the Porsche 356, a new six-cylinder engine with the body of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Ferry Porsche designed and son.
Originally called the 901, a legal challenge by Peugeot on the format of the name led to the 901 will be renamed “Porsche 911
In 1963, at the Frankfurt International Motor Show was the Porsche 911 and the production began the following year. The Porsche has remained faithful to his 911 predecessors, with an air-cooled boxer engine in the rear.
Decided in 1972, Ferry Porsche Porsche from a partnership into a corporation, Porsche GmbH, and stayed on the board until his death in 1998 to make.
Since then Porsche has continued to refine and update and the introduction of the 911 Turbo Engines, 914, 917, 924, 928, 959 and Boxter with continued success on the racetrack and in sports car enthusiasts.
With their history of engineering excellence and innovative design, along with their passion for performance, Porsche has successfully its reputation as the most successful sports car manufacturer.
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Enzo Ferrari The Ultimate Supercar
Posted by in Uncategorized on November 18, 2009

It goes without saying that almost everyone knows what a Ferrari is. It’s red, it’s fast and it’s certainly a luxury not everyone can have. Every kid, boys and girls, wants to grow up to own a Ferrari. Many man work and toil just to save up enough money to get them a decent Ferrari. But how it all did started?
The founder for Ferrari is Enzo Ferrari. Born on the 18th February 1898 in Modena, Italy, Ezno did not have a very formal education because he was not particularly interested in his studies. He was very determined in racing cars. He took up racing when he was 19 but did not have huge success.
He then left the tracks and secured a job at Alfa Romeo. He took the job as a car racer with them and found bigger success than he did previously. After racing for Alfa Romeo for more or less 20 years, he left the company to set up his own company, the Auto-Avio Construzini to subsequently build his own racing cars under his own name, Ferrari. The rest as they say is history.
The Enzo Ferrari was the Ferrari that was named exactly after its owner. This Ferrari was built in the year 2003 and it was built using some of the Formula 1 technologies. These technologies include F1-style carbon-ceramic brake discs, carbon-fiber body, and sequential shift transmission. To build a car with the best performance, the designers of this Enzo Ferrari also went as far as to use banned Formula 1 technology which is the active and integrated aerodynamics.
The Enzo Ferrari has the largest engine as compared with the other Ferraris. Despite that fact, the Enzio Ferrari was made with inspirations from the racing tracks. With this reason, the frame of Enzio Ferrari was made out of carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb panels.
This frame will then form a rigid tub for the Enzo Ferrari. In the middle of the frame is where the new large engine F140 is at. The all new F140 is actually a twelve cylinder engine
. This particularly large engine is attached to the alloy sub-frame at two points. The purpose of this design is to prevent the vibrations from escaping into the passenger compartment.
As mentioned about the inspirations from the Formula 1, this Enzo Ferrari uses an electro hydraulic system that automatically activates the clutch and the gear changes. This is actually a semi-automatic gearbox and it helps the driver of the Enzo Ferrari to change their gears in 150 milliseconds. The driver may also achieve gear changes in 90 milliseconds if he is driving the Enzo Ferrari in sport mode.
The uniqueness of this Enzo Ferrari also lies with the embedded electronic system that they used on the sport car. These embedded electronic systems are included to ensure the comfort of the driver while driving the Enzo Ferrari. The designers included a central computer that can synchronize the engine, the suspension, and the transmissions. Inside the Enzo Ferrari, the designers also included the aerodynamic subsystem to optimize the performance and also the wellbeing of the driver.
Like the founder of the Ferrari, the Enzo Ferrari is truly a unique car of its own. There are those that are similar but they can never compete with the quality and the performance of the Enzo Ferrari. It is no wonder why people still want to own a Ferrari to this day.
Tags: ferraris, racing cars, supercar

