Porsche 928

The Porsche 928 is a front-engined grand touring coupe that Porsche built in Germany from 1977 to 1995. It was the first Porsche production car with a V8 engine and the first designed wholly in house, and it was meant to give the company a comfortable, spacious luxury tourer beside, and possibly in place of, the rear-engined 911. A 2+2 with a rear hatchback, it drove the rear wheels from a water-cooled engine mounted at the front. It won the European Car of the Year award on its 1978 release, one of the few times the prize went to a car that was not a mass-produced family model. Sales never reached what Porsche management had hoped, but the car kept a devoted following through an eighteen-year production run.