Saar: The eighth generation of the iconic sports car will make its world premiere at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show and will go on sale in Europe early next year.

The Porsche 911! The car that has stuck with its original mantra of mounting the engine at the rear ever since it came into existence decades ago. This month, at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, the eighth generation of the Porsche 911 will make its world premiere. And before that happens, the Stuttgart-based carmaker wants its loyalists and all the car nutters around the globe to land on the same levels of excitement as it is. What’s the best way to do that? Run a teaser campaign.

Porsche has obviously been testing and fine-tuning the recipe for the new 911 for a while now. The carmaker has confirmed that the model has now undergone the final stages of its testing. The prototypes of the new Porsche 911 have been extensively stressed under varied conditions. For instance, it was put under pressure in different climatic zones with a temperature difference of up to 85 degrees Celsius. The two-seater sportscar was also tested across elevation changes spanning over four kilometres.

The idea is to check that each component of the Porsche 911 works flawlessly, no matter how harsh the conditions be. To expose and put the new 911 under stress in hot climatic zones, Porsche took the prototypes in the scorching heats of the Middle East and the Death Valley in the USA. For the other end of the scale, Finland’s minus 35 degrees Celsius temperatures came in handy.

Being a Porsche, its keynote speech has to be the handling dynamics. For fine-tuning the chassis and the aerodynamics of the new 911, Porsche took the prototypes in the winding roads of the European Arctic Circle. For endurance runs, however, China’s roads and race tracks were used. Speaking of race tracks, Porsche also tested the new 911 at Italy’s Nardò race track.

The Death Valley in the USA, which is 90 metres below sea level, became one end of the varied altitude tests, while Mount Evans in Colorado marked the other end of the scale at 4,300 metres above sea level. Porsche claims that by the time all testing is complete, the cars would have driven around 3 million kilometres in total.

The all-new Porsche 911 goes on sale in Europe early next year. Inevitably, it will come to India as well. Expect that to happen during the second half of 2019. Before it breaks cover later this month, Porsche is likely to reveal more confirmed details about the latest 911. We’ll be keeping an eye out for those.

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Rachit Shad Trehan
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