Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany, has plans at this year’s Geneva
Auto Salon to show off an environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient
range of automobiles. The show, staged this year between March 6 and
March 16, is traditionally used to reveal the most significant trends
for the automobile season ahead.
On the Porsche stand the automobiles on display will range from a
prototype of the future version of the extra efficient Cayenne Hybrid
through to the Porsche RS Spyder. This, the most successful race car in
the American Le Mans Series, achieved its eight overall victories in
2007 using the environmentally friendly E 10 fuel, containing a mixture
of 10 per cent by volume bioethanol. What’s more, all second generation
Cayenne models are powered by new specially fuel-efficient engines with
gasoline direct injection. And these engines use up to 15 per cent
less fuel.
In the sports car sector Porsche is using the Geneva Auto Salon to
reinforce with the new Boxster RS 60 Spyder which has its Swiss trade
fair premiere, and the 911 Turbo Cabriolet and the 911 GT2 Porsche’s
decades-long experience in constructing light, efficient and therefore
also fuel-efficient automobiles. Even under today's more exacting
environmental constraints, the optimal power to weight ratio of these
automobiles (the relationship between the weight of the car and its
performance) ensures ultimate driving dynamics coupled with the
ultimate driving pleasure.