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911 SPEEDSTER

Engine: Six-cylinder boxer Displacement: 3,800 cc Power: 408 hp (300 kW) Maximum torque: 420 Nm at 4,200–5,600 rpm 0–100 km/h: 4.4 sec. Top track speed: 305 km/h (190 mph)

CO2 emissions: 242 g/km Fuel consumption – City: 15.5 l/100 km – Highway: 7.3 l/100 km – Combined: 10.3 l/100 km

911 CARRERA GTS

Engine: Six-cylinder boxer Displacement: 3,800 cc Power: 408 hp (300 kW) Maximum torque: 420 Nm at 4,200–5,600 rpm 0–100 km/h:* 4.4 sec. Top track speed:* 304 km/h (189 mph)

CO2 emissions:* 240 g/km Fuel consumption* – City: 15.3 l/100 km – Highway: 7.2 l/100 km – Combined: 10.2 l/100 km * with double-clutch transmission (PDK)

Michael Macht (left) and Matthias Müller: Crowd stopper in Hall 4 at the trade fair in Paris: “Lead this great team on to a great future” New Porsche CEO Matthias Müller takes a in the 911 Speedster

THE COMPANY T h e Fr e y s s i n e t h a l l i n Pa r i s , a fo r m e r r a i lway Macht was appointed a member of the The excitement and enthusiasm that building from 1927 often used for fashion board of management of AG Porsche generates was evident even before shows by designers, had been transformed with responsibility for Group Production the Porsche stand at the motor show into a huge automobile arena for the effective October 1, and in Paris he wished opened. It was not even eight o’clock in the CHANGING OF THE preshow event Allez les marques! (Go, his successor all the best in his new job, morning, but Hall 4 at the Paris trade fair brands!). The walls of the cavernous hall, adding, “Now it’s up to you to lead this grounds was swarming with people and 18,000 square meters (almost 200,000 great team on to a great future.” For his journalists from around the world jock- GUARD IN PARIS square feet) in size, had been swathed in eying for the best positions in a seemingly elegant white, and about 200 spotlights impenetrable jumble of cameras and After Michael Macht offi cially handed over the Porsche steering wheel to his successor illuminated the 50-meter-long (165 feet) PORSCHE microphones. No one wanted to miss Matthias Müller on the eve of the 2010 , the outgoing and the new CEO and 10-meter-wide (32 feet) “car walk.” PREMIERES WITH Müller and Macht presenting the newest unveiled the 911 Speedster together. stars in the Porsche lineup, the 911 Carrera The giant screen was perfect for the fi lm A FILM MADE IN GTS and the Speedster, which is being that was shown before the new Porsche’s WEISSACH produced in a limited edition of 356—two By Kristin Bergemann debut. This was no ordinary Hollywood models that, along with the Cayenne and movie, however; it was a fi lm made in the Panamera, are bound to keep Porsche’s Weissach. It featured Macht at the wheel part, Müller promised to do everything in success story going. It was pitch black and the crowd was light. The crowd responded with thun- The passing of the baton from Macht to of a new 911 GT3 R and Müller in the new his power to keep the Porsche legend alive. holding its breath, all eyes on the stage. derous applause—both for the newest Müller could hardly have been staged Speedster in Pure Blue, experiencing the “I’m looking forward to this exciting New Porsche CEO Matthias Müller cer- Then the moment everyone had been star in the Porsche lineup and for the two more impressively. Nor could the occasion fascination of driving the newest Porsche challenge and to working together with all tainly has a promising foundation upon waiting for fi nally arrived, and the outline men sitting in it. For the man at the wheel have been more fi tting than the VW Group models on a test course and having a ball, my new colleagues. Porsche will stay which to build. Porsche AG achieved a of the new Porsche 911 Speedster grad- was none other than Matthias Müller, Night on the eve of the Paris Motor Show, as was evident from the big smiles on both Porsche. We want to keep making cars record turnover of €7.79 billion in the ually emerged from a cloud of smoke. The Porsche AG’s new CEO, and the gen- where the latest innovations from the of their faces. At the end of the fi lm, Macht that people want to own, cars that 2009/10 business year. Now the company blue sports car roared and went for a spin tleman at his right was his predecessor, group’s ten car makes were presented to symbolically hands over the Porsche combine speed and elegance—the way just has to follow the course charted in on the stage, clearly enjoying the spot- Michael Macht. almost 1,500 guests from 46 countries. steering wheel to Müller. our customers expect us to.” Paris: Go, Porsche!