Porsche 911 TARGA 4 -, User Handbook Manual

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15 14 Iconic style | The 911 Targa revolution
At Porsche, design has always been
about much more than good looks.
Design has always had a function too.
Only this way do you become a style
icon in automobile design – and remain
an influence in that field for decades.
Or at least you do if you take sports
car design seriously.
The 911 Targa has followed this maxim
right from the word go. The roof
construction, for example, took the 1963
911 Coupé to a whole new aesthetic
level and featured a safety concept that
made open-top driving a viable possibility.
But even in the 1960s, the crucial
question was: what do you do with the
roof? And: where do you stow it? Back
then, the solution to this problem was
very different from today’s. With the new
911 Targa, our solution is a concept
which our engineers call ‘a fully automatic
roof system with innovative kinematics’.
Though its description may sound a little
cumbersome, the roof system itself is
For our designers: a sculpture.
For our engineers: a performance.
The 911 Targa revolution.