1948, June 8: First Porsche car (#356-001) registered in Gmund Austria; it –> had a 1086cc 30kW VW engine.

1949: Production begins in Stuttgart, Germany; the car is called the 356 because it is the 356th project off the Porsche design desk.

1950s: Porsche builds the 1.5L flat-12 supercharged Cisitalia racing car with driver-controlled four wheel drive.

1951: The factory enters a light-weight 356 in the Le Mans 24 hours race. First two right hand drive Porsche 356s built and imported into Australia by Norman Hamilton.

1953: The 550 mid-engined race car Spyder is created.

1963: Porsche “901″ (later renamed the “911″ after a protest by Peugeot) is shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show, 2L flat-6, air-cooled engine, 97kW at 6200rpm. The engine is later enlarged to 2.2L and 2.4L.

1964 Porsche 911 production begins.

1969: The 914 mid-engined car features 4-cylinder engine from VW (and insufficient “go” in the opinion of many).

1973: New G-body 911 (e.g. larger bumpers), 2.7L flat-6 engine. A prototype 911-Turbo was shown at the Paris Motor Show.

1973/74: Porsche 911 Turbo, 2.7L, 186kW, rear “whale-tail spoiler”.

1974 New 3.0L, 6.5:1 c.r., 0.8bar boost, turbo engine, 194kW at 5500rpm.

1975: The 4-cylinder, water-cooled, front engined 924 is a new departure; later developed into the 944 and 968.

1977: 3.3L, 7.0:1 c.r. Porsche 911, inter-cooled (1978), 224kW, 416Nm. (And in the front-engined layout… the V8, water-cooled 928.)

1981: 911 4WD concept car shown at Frankfurt Motor show.

1982: New 911 Carrera-2 shape - e.g. integrated bumpers.

1984: A 911 4WD wins the Paris-Dakar rally.

1986: 4WD Porsche 959s finish 1, 2 and 6 in the Paris-Dakar rally.

1987: The Porsche 959 was a 911-based group-B rally car and had electronic controlled 4WD with dry/ wet/ icy settings, also ABS brakes. 2.85L twin-turbo flat-6, 330kW at 6500rpm, 500Nm at 5500rpm, 1350kg. 200 were built for homologation purposes.

1991: Porsche 911 type-964 (Carrera 2) 3.3L, 235kW, 450Nm, four-wheel drive, au$265K 5 sold (au) –>.

1992 Porsche AG take direct control of Australian imports.

1993: 911 Turbo gets 3.6L, 270kW engine. At au$270K, or $1/Watt, 15 sold were sold here in 1994/95.

1995: 911 series 993, 300kW twin-turbo, 6-speed, electronic control of 4WD and limited slip diff’ from the Carrera 4 and Porsche 959. This engine later developed up to 400kW in a car with a weight of 1280kg and 4WD.

1996: The Boxster is a new mid-engined, and more affordable, Porsche.

1998: 50th anniversary, It is said that over 1,000,000 Porsches have been built and that 2/3 of them are still on the road.

1999: 911 type-996 turbo 4WD, 309kW.

2000: Porsche celebrates world premiere of highperformance Carrera GT sports car. Ready-for-the-road concept car with carbon-fibre chassis, 10-cylinder naturally aspirated engine. Construction begins on a new Porsche assembly plant (Leipzig) for the multi-purpose Cayenne SUV.

2001: New 911 GT2 equipped with PCCB Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake standard and generates 462 hp. The new generation of the 911 Carrera has a 3.6-litre engine with variable valve lift. Available as new versions are the 911 Carrera 4S and 911Targa.

2002: Cayenne SUV - sporty and off-road ready. Revised Boxster with VarioCam technology, achieves lower consumption and emission ratings with simultaneous power boost.
2003: Production of Porsche Carrera GT starts up in Leipzig.

2004: New generations of 911 and Boxster sports car series introduced in both Basic and S versions.

2005: At Frankfurt Auto Show, Porsche Cayman S with 6-cylinder boxer mid-engine is presented for the first time. Also, the model range is extended with the 911 Carrera 4 and 911 Carrera 4S in Coupé and Cabriolet versions. Porsche becomes the largest Volkswagen shareholder. In Zuffenhausen, construction begins on the new Porsche Museum.

2006: alongside the new 911 GT3, the 521 hp Cayenne Turbo S marks a new power peak. In Geneva, new 911 Turbo with Variable Turbine Geometry (VTG) is introduced. The Cayman with 245 hp rounds out the model range. Further new entries are the 911 GT3 RS and the 911Targa 4 models. In the American Le Mans series, the Porsche RS Spyder prototype achieves a championship victory in the LMP2 class. Expansion of production facilities begins in Leipzig. There assembly of the Panamera, commences in 2009.