1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring
For a car whose fate was anything but certain at the outset, the Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 has been more than vindicated. A runaway success commercially and competitively, this groundbreaking variant of the 911 would unwittingly form the very bedrock of Porsche’s engineering and corporate strategy since debuting in 1973 during a period of internal upheaval as the German automaker restructured its production and motorsports programs.…
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring
For a car whose fate was anything but certain at the outset, the Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 has been more than vindicated. A runaway success commercially and competitively, this groundbreaking variant of the 911 would unwittingly form the very bedrock of Porsche’s engineering and corporate strategy since debuting in 1973 during a period of internal upheaval as the German automaker restructured its production and motorsports programs. Indeed, the close kinship between Porsche’s roadgoing and competition models—now a Porsche hallmark—is largely thanks to the 911 RS 2.7, which was developed in the early 1970s for Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile Group 4 competition, which required 500 streel-legal examples for homologation.