Porsche Lost 91% of Its Profit – The 911 Just Had Its Best Year Ever

In 2025, Porsche's profit after tax fell by more than 90 percent. In the same year, the Porsche 911 had its best year ever. Now Porsche says there will be no fully electric 911. The final chapter: the Porsche 992 – the 911 that went hybrid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 Porsche's crisis, the 911's record 0:52 Los Angeles 2018: the eighth 911 2:01 Turbo S, GT3 and GT3 RS 2:57 Sport Classic, Dakar and S/T 3:53 Porsche's electric plan – and the exception 4:24 2024: the first hybrid 911 5:44 The fight for the manual 6:26 A change of course and the 711 PS Turbo S 7:08 A record year – and no electric 911 7:41 Back to 1963 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. 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 (this video) 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 – "8th generation Porsche 911 (992)", "The new 911 – world premiere hybrid" (2024), "911 Turbo S – twin-turbo performance hybrid" (2025), "Realignment of the product strategy" (19 September 2025), "Deliveries 2023, 2024, 2025 and Q3 2026", "Annual general meeting – Strategy 2035" (23 June 2026), "The manual 911 Carrera S returns to North America" (2026), "A driving legend" (Ferry Porsche) Wikipedia – Porsche 911 (992), Porsche Taycan Paultan, Motor1, Top Gear, Stuttcars – 992 models, T-Hybrid technology, Dakar, S/T, Sport Classic Bloomberg, CNBC, Euronews – DAX exit and share price (September 2025) · CNBC, just-auto – job cuts (2025/2026) Electrek, TechTimes – Porsche Capital Markets Day (7 October 2026) Motor Illustrated, Motor Authority – Oliver Blume on an electric 911 (2021) · InsideEVs – Porsche's 2030 EV target (2022) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMAGE CREDITS Photographs: Wikimedia Commons – author – licence (number of images). · Alexander-93 — CC BY-SA 4.0 (16) · Alexander Migl — CC BY-SA 4.0 (15) · Calreyn88 — CC BY-SA 4.0 (15) · Matti Blume — CC BY-SA 4.0 (14) · Charles from Port Chester, New York — CC0 (9) · Damian B Oh — CC BY-SA 4.0 (6) · Alexandre Prevot from Nancy, France — CC BY-SA 2.0 (4) · Nick.Pr — CC BY-SA 4.0 (4) · Charles from Port Chester, New York — CC BY 2.0 (3) · Ethan Llamas — CC BY-SA 4.0 (3) · MrWalkr — CC BY-SA 4.0 (3) · OWS Photography — CC BY 4.0 (3) · Prova MO — CC BY-SA 4.0 (3) · qwesy qwesy — CC BY 3.0 (3) · Giftzwerg 88 — CC BY-SA 3.0 (2) · TTTNIS — CC0 (2) · Alexandre Prevot — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Alexandre Prevot from Nancy, France — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Calreyn88 — CC BY 4.0 · Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany — CC BY 2.0 · David Merrett — CC BY 2.0 · Dietmar Rabich — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ermell — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Evnerd — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Johannes Maximilian — CC BY-SA 4.0 · KarleHorn — CC BY 3.0 · Marek Śliwecki — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Martin Lee from London, UK — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Mathious Ier — CC0 · Moayad Abuawad — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Morio — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sokrates 399 — CC BY 4.0 · Str1ke — CC BY 2.0 · user:Bjmullan — CC BY-SA 2.5 · Y.Leclercq© — 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.