Porsche Built the 928 to Kill the 911. It Failed.

▶ Next episode: Porsche Went From 50,000 Cars to 14,000. Could the 911 Save It?    • Porsche Went From 50,000 Cars to 14,000. C...   In 1981, a chart on the wall at Porsche showed the 911 line simply stopping. The new boss picked up a marker – and drew it on, across the wall and out of the door. This is the story of the Porsche 911 G model, the Turbo – and the boss who wanted the 911 gone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 The plan that said the 911 would die 0:41 A new face for the 911 1:51 The 911 Turbo 2:48 The widowmaker and Le Mans 3:33 The boss who wanted the 928 4:31 People kept buying 911s 5:12 Peter Schutz and the marker 5:53 The best years of the G model 6:58 The crash and the end of the G model 8:05 What came next ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE PORSCHE 911 STORY – all episodes:    • The Porsche 911 Story   1 The Porsche 911 Was Called 901 – Until Peugeot Said No 2 Porsche Built the 928 to Kill the 911. It Failed. (this video) 3 Porsche Went From 50,000 Cars to 14,000. Could the 911 Save It? 4 The Last Air-Cooled Porsche 911 Rolled Out 4 Days After Ferry Porsche Died 5 They Called the Porsche 911 'Fried Eggs'. Then It Set a Record. 6 The Porsche 911 Got Its Face Back – Then Porsche Lost Its Independence 7 The Porsche 911 That Lost Its Clutch Pedal – Then Caught Fire 8 Porsche Lost 91% of Its Profit – The 911 Just Had Its Best Year Ever ALSO ON THIS CHANNEL The Golf GTI Story – all 8 episodes:    • The Golf GTI Story   The BMW M3 Story – all 6 episodes:    • The BMW M3 Story   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES Porsche Newsroom – "The one millionth 911 – seven generations", "911 Cabriolet history", "Kremer Porsche 935" (Christophorus 407) Porsche Stories – "How a Porsche 911 won the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally" Stuttcars – 911 G series research hub · 911 SC · 911 Turbo 3.0 and 3.3 (930) · 930 to 935 · 928 · 953 · 959 · 911 Speedster 1989 24h-lemans.com – Porsche 935, Le Mans 1979 Porsche Club of America, The Drive, Jalopnik, The Truth About Cars – Peter Schutz (1930–2017) Total 911 – Ernst Fuhrmann · IESE Publishing – "Porsche: the crisis of 1992" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMAGE CREDITS Photographs: Wikimedia Commons – author – licence (number of images). · Calreyn88 — CC BY-SA 4.0 (12) · Charles from Port Chester, New York — CC BY 2.0 (11) · Ermell — CC BY-SA 4.0 (5) · MrWalkr — CC BY-SA 4.0 (4) · Lothar Spurzem — CC BY-SA 2.0 de (3) · Mr.choppers — CC BY-SA 3.0 (3) · nakhon100 — CC BY 2.0 (3) · Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England — CC BY 2.0 (2) · Carfanatic2019 — CC BY-SA 4.0 (2) · Jeremy from Sydney, Australia — CC BY 2.0 (2) · Michael Barera — CC BY-SA 4.0 (2) · Pittigrilli~commonswiki — CC BY-SA 4.0 (2) · Sicnag — CC BY 2.0 (2) · Thesupermat — CC BY-SA 4.0 (2) · Alexander Migl — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alexander-93 — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles from Port Chester, New York — CC0 · Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany — CC BY 2.0 · Cocco1974 — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Crwpitman — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dan Wildhirt — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Decampos — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Detectandpreserve — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dllu — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jacob Frey 4A — CC BY 2.0 · John Robert McPherson — CC0 · KarleHorn — CC BY 3.0 · KarleHorn — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Khutuck — Public domain · Marcel Antonisse / Anefo — CC BY-SA 3.0 · More Cars — CC BY 2.0 · Mr.choppers — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pedro Pablo — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Pelicanactor — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Riley from Christchurch, New Zealand — CC BY 2.0 · Rouk40130 — CC BY 4.0 · Spanish Coches — CC BY 2.0 · TaurusEmerald — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Thesupermat — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Txemari. (Navarra). from Navarra, España — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vauxford — CC BY-SA 4.0 Licences: creativecommons.org/licenses Porsche, 911, Carrera, Targa, Boxster and all other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. This is an independent documentary and is not affiliated with Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG or Volkswagen AG.