{"id":112057,"date":"2024-04-06T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/porsche-911-gts-and-porsche-3562"},"modified":"2024-04-06T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T05:01:46","slug":"like-father-like-son-porsche-911-meets-legendary-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/like-father-like-son-porsche-911-meets-legendary-356\/","title":{"rendered":"Like father, like son: Porsche 911 meets legendary 356"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Porsche<\/a><\/p>\n

\n The 911’s ability to make keen drivers smile can be traced back to the 356\/2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dainty, deft, and time-worn – we drive the oldest Porsche in the UK to see how it compares to the 911 GTS<\/p>\n

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The modern Porsche 911<\/a> isn\u2019t just an extraordinary car, singular, but an extraordinary range of cars.<\/p>\n

You can have a regular rear-drive, road-focused 911 with a roof, or a four-wheel-drive alternative, or one without a roof, or one with half a roof, plus versions that are track-focused, or dominated by straight-line acceleration, rough-road ready\u2026 In all, there are 26 different 911s on sale today.<\/p>\n

Things were rather different when Porsche<\/a> first set out to put the family name on a sports car, in 1948, when the son of Porsche founder Ferdinand, also called Ferdinand but known as Ferry, designed a two-seat mid-engined roadster at a sawmill in Gm\u00fcnd, Austria.<\/p>\n

The mid-engined 356 prototype had a complex spaceframe chassis. Porsche still owns it. But when it came to turning that into a production vehicle, the 356\/2, Ferry adopted a layout more familiar to Porsche, because his old man had designed the Volkswagen<\/a> Type 1, or Beetle: the production 356 had a Volkswagen 1100cc engine, gearbox and suspension, all in their original locations, with a monocoque chassis.<\/p>\n

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This was simpler and cheaper to make but also meant it was more practical, with notable space behind the front bench seat. In a country strapped for money and resources, the Austrian government agreed Porsche could make some 356s so long as it exported them.<\/p>\n

Between 1948 and 1951, then, Porsche, with the assistance of some suppliers because the factory was so small, went on to make 52 examples of the 356\/2 \u2013 44 coup\u00e9s and eight roadsters \u2013 before the company returned to Stuttgart. In doing so, the template and lineage for the greatest sports car of all was born.<\/p>\n

Quick links: Introducing the Porsche 911 GTS<\/a> –\u00a0Introducing the Porsche 356\/2<\/a> –\u00a0Interior<\/a> –\u00a0Driving dynamics<\/a> –\u00a0Verdict<\/a>\u00a0– Specifications<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Introducing the Porsche 911 GTS\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Today, we have represented the template with a Carrera 4 GTS, an upper-middling 911 with a 3.0-litre turbocharged flat-six engine making 474bhp. It will go from rest to 62mph in 3.3sec and do 192mph flat out, but ultimately it\u2019s still considered a road-focused 911.<\/p>\n

Modern 911s are by no means all the same, but I love some of their shared traits. There are, for instance, ones as diverse as a Dakar<\/a> or a GT3 RS<\/a>, which would make for a very broadly able two-car garage. This GTS differs from both of those but a thread runs through every modern 911.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the relatively lightly loaded front end, which given the absence of an engine up there means the nose can be low and short, and visibility good. The ride is firm, arguably too fidgety on poorer UK roads, in this GTS and Porsche allows more road noise into the cabin than rivals like BMW<\/a> or Mercedes<\/a> do.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s totally bearable and it gives back so much reward at any speed. The steering is particularly lovely, partly because with a lighter nose it needs less assistance than front-engined alternatives, which are all woollier and less responsive. The GTS is a \u00a3116,690 sports car that offers rare levels of reward, engagement and rigid body control.<\/p>\n

Introducing the Porsche 356\/2\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Stepping from it and into a 356\/2, I\u2019m wondering what, if anything, will feel familiar. This is the 32nd 356 made, part assembled by Tatra in Salzburg, Austria, and then imported to Sweden along with 14 others by Swedish truck maker and, by then, also Volkswagen importer Scania-Vabis.<\/p>\n

The car\u2019s history is well documented. It was completed on 12 June 1950, was approved in Gothenburg, Sweden, after its arrival on 9 November 1950 and was registered by Automobilfirma Per Nyqvist AB nine days later.<\/p>\n

In all, it has had 16 owners, including its latest, DK Engineering in Chorleywood, which revived its mechanicals and has lent it to us for the day prior to finding a buyer for it. It had a fresh coat of paint in the 1980s but the rest, including the interior, is original.<\/p>\n

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It is dainty and feels delicate, with panels that seem as wispy as a light aircraft\u2019s. It\u2019s no lower than a modern 911 \u2013 both are 1.3m tall \u2013 but it looks it. The body overhangs the skinny wheels by a large margin but it looks swoopy\u00a0 and space-aged \u2013 like somebody\u2019s vision of the future.<\/p>\n

When The Autocar saw it at the 1949 Geneva motor show, we said this \u201celegant coup\u00e9\u201d from \u201cthe designer of the pre-war Auto Union Grand Prix cars\u201d contained \u201cgreat technical interest\u201d.<\/p>\n

We acknowledged the Volkswagen mechanicals, and if you have been around an old Beetle, there is no mistaking them. Open the dinky rear hatch to reveal the engine and there it is, the Volkswagen flat four, most likely repurposed from an existing car \u2013 a Type 1 or K\u00fcbelwagen, I wonder; more likely the latter? \u2013 but wearing twin carburettors rather than a single one, and fettled to make 40bhp instead of the original\u2019s 25bhp. Still comfortably less than 10% of today\u2019s GTS.<\/p>\n

Interior\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The interior is delightful. Fall ungracefully onto the soft bench seat, quite cramped behind the big steering wheel, and it takes a bigger slam than perhaps you would first dare to swing the door shut.<\/p>\n

There is only one instrument, the central speedometer, which sits where a rev counter would today. To its right, a tidy rubber grommet covers the oil pressure gauge hole while DK is sourcing the original\u2019s repair. A smattering of switches in the middle finishes it off.<\/p>\n

The rest of the interior is exposed cream paint, time-worn leather, attractive tweedy carpet and three pedals poking from the footwell, floor-mounted. Behind the seats, there\u2019s a charming-looking carpeted and quilted storage space.<\/p>\n

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A twist of the diddy key and a prod of throttle brings the VW engine gradually to life. It idles quietly. A spindly gear-lever topped by a plastic ball the size of a skateboard wheel emerges just in front of the front bench, which is indented in the middle to give it the space it needs to move.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no plane that the gear-lever reverts to: it just wafts between gates. People say that VW Beetle gearshift quality is poor, including The Autocar in a 1951 test drive of a later, Stuttgart-built 356, whose gearbox was \u201cnot by any means quiet, nor is it a very easy one to change gear\u201d.<\/p>\n

This car has no synchromesh on first and second so gears want careful selection and double de-clutching, but otherwise it seems fine to me \u2013 certainly more precise than on my 1973 Beetle. The throttle weighting is positive, pedal spacing broad and brake pedal long but eventually effective.<\/p>\n

Driving dynamics\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Gratifyingly, I don\u2019t stall it, or misselect a gear, and the engine, which makes its peak power at only 4000rpm, has a broad spread of what could loosely be termed as power. As in, it doesn\u2019t make a lot of it, but it\u2019s consistent around the rev band. Fourth gear is actually quite long, so the engine really settles at a cruise.<\/p>\n

The top speed was said to be 85mph, though heaven knows it would take a long time to get there and, with its slow worm-geared steering, you would be a brave soul to try it.<\/p>\n

Certainly, our bit of Berkshire wouldn\u2019t have been big enough for the task and, for reasons of its value which I\u2019ll come onto in a moment, nor did I have a crack at establishing whether this 356 retained the traits that \u201ca combination of a rear engine and swing axle on a short-wheelbase car\u201d give: \u201cpronounced oversteer\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But I can tell you it rides well, deftly and softly, because on generous tyres and weighing around 700kg (it\u2019s hard to discern the precise figure from historical records), it doesn\u2019t need to be overtly stiff. Besides, nobody thought to make cars hard-riding at the time.<\/p>\n

The steering, then \u2013 given some flex in the chassis, its slow unassisted gearing and the vagaries of time \u2013 takes a moment to pick up weight and start deflecting the car from straight ahead. It feels a bit nervous \u2013 or at least I do \u2013 as a car with a short wheelbase and a track so inward of the body might well do. But even in top gear, the 356 gathers speed onwards in a way I didn\u2019t expect from just 40bhp.<\/p>\n

The drag coefficient was later measured below 0.30, so it is slippery and has a small frontal area. It\u2019s no wonder that at Le Mans in 1951, a modified Gm\u00fcnd-built coup\u00e9 was able to hit 100mph and finished first in the 751-1100cc class, despite putting out only 46bhp.<\/p>\n

And, yes, there are some things that still feel like a 911 does today, such as the view, through a narrow screen, across a low front end, with pronounced wings; the slight bob of the front end, which is so differently loaded from the rear; and the fact that the noise comes from so far behind, to the extent that it\u2019s almost inaudible at cruising speed.<\/p>\n

Verdict\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The 356\/2 feels incredibly special. Never, though, does it feel exotic, nor perhaps does it look it. \u201cDid you build it yourself,\u201d asks a walker of its custodian when passing it in a car park, before being pleasantly surprised to learn that, no, this is the oldest Porsche in the UK.<\/p>\n

There is, I suppose, no getting away from its humdrum mechanicals. This isn\u2019t a race-winning V12 Ferrari<\/a>. Its estimated value of around \u00a32.7 million is very much a subject of its rarity, its status and its originality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most original 356s,\u201d says DK Engineering\u2019s James Cottingham, so much so that \u201cone owner had it as a reference for his other cars\u201d. It\u2019s the sort of car that will, perhaps inevitably as a result of the value, go into an existing Porsche collection. And may have already done so by the time you read this.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all great cars, it\u2019s a rarefied atmosphere,\u201d says Cottingham. \u201cThere probably aren\u2019t tens of buyers but the term \u2018bookend\u2019 comes from somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, that\u2019s what this 356 represents: it\u2019s a lovely, usable example of an original car, the one that started the greatest sports car lineage of all. I could love it for the way it looks and the way it feels. But that\u2019s nothing compared with what it represents.<\/p>\n

Specifications\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The 911’s ability to make keen drivers smile can be traced back to the 356\/2<\/p>\n

Dainty, deft, and time-worn – we drive the oldest Porsche in the UK to see how it compares to the 911 GTS<\/p>\n

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