Porsche has been tinkering with active aerodynamics for decades, adding driver-adjustable wings to race cars as long ago as the 1950s in the 550 Spyder era. Porsche was the first manufacturer employing it on a street car with automatically lowering suspension on the 1986 959 supercar to help reduce lift at speed. Even its most basic Porsche sports …
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Porsche Patent Shows Active Rear Diffuser Invention
Active aerodynamics are nothing new to Porsche. They started testing such technology at least as early as the 906 program and really moved things forward with the 908 (cars like the 908LH Flunder were a study in active aero). Fast forward to today and almost every Porsche sports car or sedan you can think of has some type of "active aero". …
Continue to the full articleThe New Porsche 911 Turbo is a Shape Changer Thanks to Active Aerodynamics
Obviously, the physics involved in optimum aerodynamics are fairly complicated. Maybe that's why Porsche's narrator talks to us so slowly in this video. Regardless, by the time you're done you should fully understand the concept of 'Active Aerodynamics' and how it helps the new Porsche 911 Turbo grab the ground harder than any of it's predecessors. …
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