How The First 911 Changed Porsche Forever - 1965 Porsche 911 - ISSIMI DRIVES

In this episode of ISSIMI Drives Derek Tam-Scott drives a 1965 911. One of the most enduring car models of all time, the 911 was actually somewhat controversial when it came out. Up to that point, Porsche had built a legion of loyal fans by building variations on a theme: a rear-mounted flat-4 placed in a torsion bar suspended car whose roots traced back to the Volkswagen Beetle. The Porsche company’s first production car model, the 356, earned a reputation for being a giant killer, outperforming cars with two or three times the displacement both on the race track and on the street. Diehard enthusiasts of the brand greeted the all-new 911 (originally called the 901) with some skepticism because it represented a significant departure from what had come before. Only Porsche’s second all-new street car, the 911 was quite a bit more sophisticated than the 356. It had six cylinder and overhead cams for the first time (aside from the Carrera racing engine), paired with a 5-speed dogleg gearbox, pushing the c