Porsche: which year in the 1970s did the 911 turbo come out - is it the same as the 935?

The first turbo was 1976. The factory model number is 930. The 935 was a
straight out race car in 911 style if I remember correctly (or perhaps I'm
thinking of the 934)

Allan A

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Actually, the 930 debuted for 1974. The engine was given an intercooler
(and other minor updates) for 1976 that boosted power output. In 1980
the vehicle was removed from the U.S. and Japanese model lineups due to
changing emissions regulations - Porsche felt that the modifications
neccesary for compliance with the new regs would hamper performance and
squash interest in the vehicle. It was re-introduced for 1986,
producing 280 horsepower, a slight bump over the 260 horsepower of
pre-86' models. A *very* small run of 1989 models was produced
featuring 5-speed transmissions (prior to this point, only a 4-speed
had been available) although they are hard to come by, as Porsche was
at this point already fazing in the 964, which meant that the 930's
platform was being discontinued. Post-1989 model year Turbos don't use
the 930 designation number. The 935 was Porsche's race-car variant of
the 930, and a version of the 935 used the famous "Flachbau" or
"Slantnose" front end. Porsche produced a small number of street legal
930s with the 935-style "Flachbau" front end, but very few were made
and they comanded a huge premium over normal 930s. They can be found
today, but be weary, many of them available on the used market had
shoddy after-market slantnose conversion kits installed which don't
usually look proper and are prone to difficulties.

I believe that the 930 (911 turbo) was introduced in the European car show
in 1974. They 1st came to the US for the 1975 model year (only 284 were
built for '75 -1,174 for '76 and 1,422 for '77, so for the 1st series '75
through '77 there were less than 3,000 of these cars built for the whole
world). These cars were badged as "Turbo Carrera" which was changed to just
"Turbo" for the '78 model year. Actually both the front and rear wheel wells
were widened (I believe that the 911 went to widened rear wheel wells with
the introduction of the 911SC for the '78 model year, no tail). The '77 930
model year introduced power assisted brakes and you could get optional 16"
wheels. The 1978 model year introduce the inter-cooler and slightly modified
the tail so that the lip wrapped around to both sides and also the bed of
the tail was changed to go flat all the way to the rear window to
accommodate the newly added inter-cooler.

W3

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