It's really quite amazing Porsche never made a flat-8 road car, when you consider their success with them. I realize the flat-6 is kind of Porsche's thing, but looking across their entire range you could get a Porsche powered by a V6, V8, V10, 4-cylinder, hybrid, electric, and/or diesel. But no flat-8 available from the company that made it famous.
Thats cause a flat v12 would be impractical because it wouldn't fit in any engine bay smaller than a Mitsubishi 3000gt and even then it'd be a tight fit. Also having to take the motor out to do anything to cylinders, sparkplugs, etc etc
@@evilrooster9960he said flat 8, not 12. And I can’t imagine packaging a flat 12 would be super difficult. Ferrari had a flat 12 in the 512 TR for many years
Ferdinand Piech created 2 914/8 prototypes to demonstrate the 908's race engine in a road car. As a 60th birthday present, he gifted the second to Ferdinand Porshe, who apparently showed no interest. It was like the Carrera GT of its day
@@christianw9263- ha just wanted to write that - I saw a dark green 914/8 birthday present to Mr Porsche car in the old Porsche Museum when it still was just one room in the works area …. Long time ago.
Well,that's a good question. It brings back memories back when I used to own the 911 series from late 70es to late 90es as a daydriver and often wondered about significantly improving performance overall while keeping its practicality and sticking to NA engine.I presume there was room enough inside the 911SC bodyshell to place a flat 8 into it though I never heard of such an upgrade on a 911.
Fantastic sounding car and yes, I completely agree. I’m a traditional manual transmission guy myself, and the manual shifting just adds to the fantastic sound.
@@whateverhappend Which gets to the point "You really don't want to know where your feet are. Personal recommendation, if you're gonna crash, do it backwards."
A mix of things in my opinion. First of all the road is closed very early in the morning and most of the people who came there to see the event arrive more calmly in mid morning, but at that time they are forced to remain in a specific public area close to the finish line (which I've never recorded so far but I would like to cover in the future). Very few spots to park the car along the course, so you need to walk and, for the same reason up there, you only have a couple of hours during lunch break to move on the road, but it's kinda dangerous as it's very busy on weekends. Even if cars are really interesting, unfortunately it's a revival hillclimb and not part of any competitive championship so it's not easy to attract public. Last but not least the weather conditions. Being at high altitudes it's always possible to find strong winds, low temperatures, low clouds/fog and showers of rain. But I'm quite confident this event will grow little by little ;)
@@19Bozzy92 Thanks for your response. So it's allowed to spectate but the effort is high. By the quality of cars and the spectacular road with wide view I think its worth it.
It's really quite amazing Porsche never made a flat-8 road car, when you consider their success with them. I realize the flat-6 is kind of Porsche's thing, but looking across their entire range you could get a Porsche powered by a V6, V8, V10, 4-cylinder, hybrid, electric, and/or diesel. But no flat-8 available from the company that made it famous.
Thats cause a flat v12 would be impractical because it wouldn't fit in any engine bay smaller than a Mitsubishi 3000gt and even then it'd be a tight fit. Also having to take the motor out to do anything to cylinders, sparkplugs, etc etc
@@evilrooster9960he said flat 8, not 12. And I can’t imagine packaging a flat 12 would be super difficult. Ferrari had a flat 12 in the 512 TR for many years
Ferdinand Piech created 2 914/8 prototypes to demonstrate the 908's race engine in a road car. As a 60th birthday present, he gifted the second to Ferdinand Porshe, who apparently showed no interest.
It was like the Carrera GT of its day
@@christianw9263- ha just wanted to write that - I saw a dark green 914/8 birthday present to Mr Porsche car in the old Porsche Museum when it still was just one room in the works area …. Long time ago.
Well,that's a good question.
It brings back memories back when I used to
own the 911 series from late 70es to late 90es as a daydriver and often wondered about significantly improving performance overall while keeping its practicality and sticking to NA engine.I presume there was room enough inside the 911SC bodyshell to place a flat 8 into it though I never heard of such an upgrade on a 911.
Another great Porsche video. I like the old fashioned actual manual gear box changes. It sounds like a real racing car. Thanks for posting
No problem at all! Thanks for watching
Fantastic sounding car and yes, I completely agree. I’m a traditional manual transmission guy myself, and the manual shifting just adds to the fantastic sound.
Just simply the finest exhaust note in the history of the automobile…
This is a wonderfully done video. Sound and Vision. Thanks.
This car is TINY!! Just a drivers seat with an engine…
Just the car I want on a wet windy Swiss road. :)
Spectacular roads.
The two arrows down the sides cracks me up.
Incredible video! Always Bozzy 🏁🇮🇹🏁!!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
The 914 with the flat 8, gifted to Ferdinand, must also be an amazing ride! 😍😍😍😍😍
Grandioso! Grazie mille.
Di nulla!
My favorite sports racer in my favorite colors!
It sounds amazing
Can't get over how physically small the car is
With that short wheelbase, it almost looks like a toycar.
@@whateverhappend Which gets to the point "You really don't want to know where your feet are. Personal recommendation, if you're gonna crash, do it backwards."
🩵🩵🩵 amazing! Thank you!
No worries! A real pleasure to record it on such a beautiful road
Love the "mystery machine" liveries
I'm suprised Switzerland allowed this? I thought they banned motoracing after 1955? Love the car and very cool hillclimb roads. Awesome vid.
Beautiful car.
Beauty
That's supposed to be one of the best-handling cars ever. Kind of a shame that the guy didn't seem to be pushing it very hard (except at the end).
Switzerland version of pikes peak
2:09
It'd be cool if there is onboard video. The 911 behind the 908 sounded mean.
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Why are there (nearly) no spectators at this event?
A mix of things in my opinion. First of all the road is closed very early in the morning and most of the people who came there to see the event arrive more calmly in mid morning, but at that time they are forced to remain in a specific public area close to the finish line (which I've never recorded so far but I would like to cover in the future). Very few spots to park the car along the course, so you need to walk and, for the same reason up there, you only have a couple of hours during lunch break to move on the road, but it's kinda dangerous as it's very busy on weekends. Even if cars are really interesting, unfortunately it's a revival hillclimb and not part of any competitive championship so it's not easy to attract public. Last but not least the weather conditions. Being at high altitudes it's always possible to find strong winds, low temperatures, low clouds/fog and showers of rain.
But I'm quite confident this event will grow little by little ;)
@@19Bozzy92 Thanks for your response. So it's allowed to spectate but the effort is high.
By the quality of cars and the spectacular road with wide view I think its worth it.
Love that babe
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