Porsche celebrates Fifty years of Turbo
London, September 18, 2024, (Oilandgaspress) –– Porsche holds a special event celebrating this and 50 years since the opening of the Transfăgărășan Highway,
All over the world, even in some of the remotest regions, you can stumble upon extraordinary driving roads. These havens of automotive passion serve as bucket-list items for road-trip fanatics, who tick them off one-by-one as they satiate their need for driving thrills and spectacular scenery, ‘collecting’ these ribbons of tarmac like a scout working through their badges. There’s no shortage of great driving roads. Take the Angeles Crest Highway just outside LA, the Schwarzwaldhochstraße in Germany, the N9 from central to southern Morocco, or any number of routes through the North York Moors in the UK – all of these could sit in that esteemed category of great driving routes.
But lying beyond the great is the elite. Roads vying for the superlative title of ‘best in the world’. For some, the Transfăgărășan Highway is the uncontested champion, the ultimate driving road. As serendipity would have it, 2024 marks 50 years since this iconic mountain pass first opened. What better place, then, to celebrate 50 years of Porsche Turbo – with a media drive featuring some of the earliest and most recent models to bear the iconic Turbo badge.
At 91 kilometres long, the Transfăgărășan Highway, nicknamed ‘The Great Dragon’, sweeps through the southern Carpathian Mountains, originally built to provide a strategic route between Transylvania and Muntenia. Its construction, between 1970 and 1974, famously used more than 6,000 tonnes of dynamite – and, infamously, claimed the lives of at least 40 people. Producing the optimal camber, elevation changes and corner radii for spirited drives in cutting-edge sports cars certainly wasn’t high on the agenda as the route was being carved through the mountains, but the final form of the highway – having been dictated by the brutal natural landscape – is so exceptional that it would scarcely be possible to build a better driving road if you tried.
Information Source: Read More
Oil and gas press covers, Energy Monitor, Climate, Renewable, Wind, Biomass, Sustainability, Oil Price, LPG, Solar, Marine, Aviation, Fuel, Hydrogen, Electric ,EV, Gas,
