Direct injection for the 911

Porsche introduces the first system for a boxer engine to bring performance enhancements as well as consumption and emissions cuts.

There are many test sites used by the automotive industry, but one of the more bizarre is the former Russian airbase of Gross Dölln, north of Berlin, in what was East Germany and is now just Germany. Its buildings are abandoned and crumbling amid woodland, and its center-3.5 km (2.2 mi) from what was once its military guardroom-is approached via weed-striped concrete roads.

But at that center is a 3-km (1.9-mi) runway stretching towards the horizon and on it Porsche chose to demonstrate its 2009MY 911 Carreras, now with direct fuel injection (DFI) flat-six engines of 3.6 and 3.8 L with outputs of 254 and 283 kW (341 and 380 hp), respectively.