The prestigious New York Auto Show is currently in progress. This morning as part of the show in New York, Porsche's GT3 was presented the award of "2014 World Performance Car".
In recent years, the World Car Awards have been gaining momentum, and are now seen as equal or superior to either the North American and European car of the year awards. The WCAs are presented each year, divided …
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What do you do if you're a hot-rod fan that wants to stick out from the crowd? If you've ever been to a street-rod show, you'll know that many of the cars on display use the same visual cues, they all use Chevrolet small-block V8s stuffed into fiberglass recreations of 1932 Ford "three window" bodies. It's all a bit homogenized, a bit boring, to be frank.
This little drop-top Ford does …
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Last week we showed you what launch control in the Porsche 918 spyder looks and sounds like. This week's video features Porsche factory driver Patrick Long on a hot lap around the Circuit of the Americas. Watch as the Porsche 918 exits pit lane under all-electric mode, accelerates under sport hybrid mode, and uses the hot-lap button on the back straight at 170 mph. The "Hot Lap" function …
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Rejoice, my friends, because paradise will be arriving in Porsche dealerships in the near future. After months of denying the possibility, Porsche's top dog; Matthias Müller, has confirmed that the next-generation Cayman and Boxster are scheduled to receive a boxer four-cylinder engine in an interview with German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. These are beautiful times we live in! Even better than …
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In this new video from the Brit glossy rag EVO, vaunted racer-cum-journalist Tiff Needell debates the merits of the new Porsche Targa 4S. The newest bodystyle of 991 offers an excellently framed view of open-air motoring, but that comes at a cost. Is the Targa 4S a good value? How does the extra weight of the mechanically convoluted top mechanism affect the 991's sublime performance?
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'Gran Turismo Sport' is more than just three letters on the deck lid, it's a mindset. GTS is a way of thinking about a car, a way of eking out every inch of performance that a Porsche can produce. The original GTS, the 904, truly embodied the phrase "racecar for the street" as it was Porsche's entry into the 1964 World Sportscar Championship, but could equally take a license plate and be driven on …
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At the end of March Porsche invited a select group of journalists to the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, TX to spend some quality time with the production version of the 918 Spyder. Among the activities enjoyed by all was a game of lead/follow involving Patrick Long in a 911 Turbo S and the media in the 918s. While track time in the 918 was probably the highlight of the weekend, getting to …
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Aaron Gower, a Hickory, North Carolina based Porsche enthusiast is in mourning over the passing of his beloved Porsche 914. They say you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than you do of winning the lottery, but they never say anything about your car being struck by lightning. If Aaron can take anything good away from this situation, at least he himself was not struck, and at least …
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On Saturday, April 12th at about 1:25PM, Mecum Auctions will be selling a significant Porsche 911S GTU racecar, lot S100, that was once raced at Sebring by Bill Freeman and actor-turned-racer Paul Newman. After McQueen, Paul Newman is one of the highest achieving actor/racers in history, and cars driven by the great man carry a hefty premium, racing cars doubly so. A car-guy practically from …
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There are many who will argue that the Cayman is the future of Porsche and that eventually, even the 911 will be a mid-engined sports car. While we're not willing to speculate just yet, we do like the direction Porsche is moving the Cayman. The new GTS, at 340 hp, is just 10 hp shy of it's big brother the base 911, top speed is only 4mph less and the 0 to sixty times are pretty much identical. …
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