Porsche 901 2,0 901/01 Cabriolet by Karmann
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Porsche |
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901 2,0 901/01 Cabriolet by Karmann |
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1963-1964 |
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Cabriolet |
The Porsche 911 was developed as a much more powerful, larger, more comfortable replacement for the Porsche 356, the company's first model, and essentially a sporting evolution of the Volkswagen Beetle. The new car made its public debut at the 1963 Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, better known to English speakers as the Frankfurt Motor Show.
It was initially designated as the "Porsche 901", after its internal project number. However, Peugeot protested on the grounds that in France it had exclusive rights to car names formed by three numbers with a zero in the middle. So, instead of selling the new model with another name in France, Porsche changed the name to 911. It went on sale in 1964.
13 factory 901 prototype coupes built in 1963 and 1964 were either destroyed or parted out as their usefulness passed.
