Porsche was issued a patent for its six-stroke combustion engine on October 22, 2024. The company describes the new engine as having a "working cycle" of three complete crankshaft revolutions with two ...

Vintage Porsche cars can be difficult to maintain, rebuild, and work on, especially if the car is powered by a unique engine that was only used in a small number of Porsches. During the early days of ...

Porsche's adoption of the transaxle in the 1970s transformed sports car handling, leading to more responsive and precise vehicles on the road and trac ...

German engineer Ferdinand Porsche already had experience working with Daimler-Benz when he set up his own firm in 1931. Later in the decade, he was hired by Adolf Hitler's government to design the ...

Intake, compression, power, then exhaust. Every 4-stroke engine ever made – about 80% of all engines currently in existence – function on this principle – even rotary engines. But now, Porsche has ...

Porsche could be reviving an old technology for its future internal combustion engines. New patent filings suggest Zuffenhausen’s finest may be resorting back to air-cooling for its future mid- and ...

One of the most hotly debated topics among Porsche enthusiasts is which is better: the air-cooled or water-cooled 911. The sports automaker had used an air-cooled engine across multiple generations of ...

Since 1963, an air-cooled (later water-cooled) six-cylinder boxer engine has been used in a car so iconic that both its engine placement and configuration have largely remained unchanged. It's the ...

Porsche is said to be re-engineering its next 718 Boxster and Cayman EV platform to accept gasoline engines across the range, backing away from an EV-only plan while it pushes new tech on models like ...

Porsche may be one of the biggest brands in the world these days, but in the '70s, it was at a crossroads. Sure, the 911 was pulling its weight, and the 914 was doing well on its own. However, the ...