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Porsche has been building precision sports cars since 1948. From the legendary 911 to the nimble 356, classic Porsches represent the ultimate in driver-focused engineering.

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Ferdinand Porsche founded the company as an engineering and design office in Stuttgart, Germany, in April 1931. The firm designed cars for other makers and was soon commissioned to develop the prototypes that became the Volkswagen Beetle. The first sports car to carry the Porsche name, the mid-engine 356 No. 1 Roadster, was built in 1948 in Gmünd, Austria, where the company had relocated during the war.
Porsche AG belongs to the Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen took a 49.9 percent stake in the sports car maker in 2009 and bought the remaining 50.1 percent from the holding company Porsche SE, with the deal taking effect on August 1, 2012. Porsche AG shares were then listed on the stock exchange in an initial public offering on September 29, 2022.
Porsche built its first 356s in Gmünd, Austria, then moved production to Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, where its first 356 was completed in 1950. Not every classic Porsche came from that plant. Karmann built the four-cylinder 914 in Osnabrück and shipped bodies to Porsche in Stuttgart for the six-cylinder 914/6, and the 924 was assembled at the Audi plant in Neckarsulm from 1976 to 1988.
A classic Porsche 911 has an air-cooled flat-six engine mounted at the rear. The car was shown as the 901 at the Frankfurt motor show in 1963 and renamed 911 after Peugeot objected, and production began in September 1964 with a 2.0-liter engine rated at 130 PS. The 911 stayed air-cooled through the 993 generation, which ended in 1998, and its successor, the 996, switched to water cooling.
The Porsche 928 is the classic Porsche with a V8, and Porsche describes it as its first road car with eight-cylinder power. It debuted at the 1977 Geneva motor show with a front-mounted, water-cooled 4.5-liter V8 and a rear transaxle, and was named European Car of the Year in 1978. Porsche intended it to replace the 911, but 928 production ended in 1995 while the 911 continued.
The Porsche in Risky Business was a 928. In the 1983 film starring Tom Cruise, the car ends up sinking into Lake Michigan. More than one 928 was used in filming, and a 1979 example that Hagerty identifies as one of two cars from the film's chase scene was sold at Barrett-Jackson's Houston auction in 2021.
The Widowmaker is the Porsche 930, the original 911 Turbo. Porsche unveiled it in 1974 with a turbocharged 3.0-liter flat-six rated at 260 PS, and the engine later grew to 3.3 liters. The nickname followed crashes blamed on its handling. Boost arrived suddenly, and with most of the car's weight over the rear wheels, the tail could swing out on drivers who were not ready for it.
An outlaw Porsche is a classic Porsche that has been modified instead of restored to factory specification. The term began with the Emory family in Southern California in the 1980s, when purists objected to their customized 356s and the cars received outlaw badges. The Revs Institute credits Rod Emory, and Excellence magazine credits his father, Gary. A backdated Porsche is a later 911, usually a G-series car or a 964, restyled to look like the long-hood 911s built before 1974.
The 55 Porsche listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $4,000 to $169,995, with a median asking price of $33,895. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.
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Classic Porsche Sports Cars: Driven by Perfection

Ferdinand Porsche founded his eponymous sports car company in 1948 with the original 356. Since then, Porsche has earned an unmatched reputation for building precision-engineered, driver-focused sports cars that excel on both road and track.

Most Popular Classic Porsche Models

The 911 is Porsche's defining model, in continuous production since 1964 with its signature rear-mounted flat-six engine. Early "long-hood" 911s and the 911 Turbo (930) are among the most collectible sports cars ever made. The 356, Porsche's first production car, is a timeless classic, while the front-engined 944 and 928 offer accessible Porsche ownership with excellent driving dynamics.