Porsche at Goodwood - the stars

Porsche has a 111-year heritage of innovation in car design, and these are some of the cars the Porsche Museum will be showing at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Ferdinand Porsche built the Lohner Porsche Semper Vivus (always alive), an all-wheel drive, petrol-electric hybrid with hub-centre electric motors in the front wheels in 1900! In a four-year project, the Museum has recreated this ground-breaking design and it will actually be driven at Goodwood.

Porsche has a 111-year heritage of innovation in car design, and these are some of the cars the Porsche Museum will be showing at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Ferdinand Porsche built the Lohner Porsche Semper Vivus (always alive), an all-wheel drive, petrol-electric hybrid with hub-centre electric motors in the front wheels in 1900! In a four-year project, the Museum has recreated this ground-breaking design and it will actually be driven at Goodwood.

Porsche has a 111-year heritage of innovation in car design, and these are some of the cars the Porsche Museum will be showing at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. In the early 1960s, Porsche developed its 718 RSK Spyder into a single-seater. The 718 had a four-cylinder, four-camshaft boxer engine and was driven by top drivers of the day including Stirling Moss, Graham Hill and Jo Bonnie. It was the top Formula Two car of 1960, and by 1961 it was quick enough to compete successfully in Formula One races.

Porsche has a 111-year heritage of innovation in car design, and these are some of the cars the Porsche Museum will be showing at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The first turbocharged Porsche was the phenomenal 917/30 Spyder of 1973, with a 5.3-litre, flat-12 engine developing more than 750kW. It was so successful in the American Can-Am racing series that the rules were changed at the end of that season to exclude it.

Porsche has a 111-year heritage of innovation in car design, and these are some of the cars the Porsche Museum will be showing at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The only all-wheel drive Porsche ever to run at Le Mans was the 961 of 1986, a racing version of the all-conquering 959 Rallye-Raid car. It was intended as a test run for a new flat-six, twin-turbo engine with water-cooled four-valve cylinder heads, but was fast enough to finish seventh overall and win its class.