Legendary driver Jacky Ickx drove this impressive machine in the 1985 running of the famed Paris-Dakar rally. Sadly, in the middle of the 8th stage, Ickx impaled the car on a large rock hidden in the sand, forcing this chassis to retire from the race. From that race until 2014 the car was retained by the Porsche museum when it was sold off to a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Recovers From Pit Lane Crash To Podium In IMSA Sebring Race
Porsche always has a strong showing at Sebring International Raceway in Florida. While the circuit traditionally runs a 12 hour endurance race in March, this year's event was postponed to late fall, and a second stand-in sprint race was added, with the schedule shuffle thanks to the international coronavirus pandemic. No matter the cause, Porsche …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Found Extra Horsepower With 3D-Printed Pistons
Additive manufacturing is the fancy scientific way of saying 3D-printed, and it's the future of automotive engineering. Porsche can design in a lot more tech to a simple piece like a piston by using this crazy new technology. And in the case of the GT2 RS (and 935), it is claimed to be responsible for 30 additional horses. Considering the GT2 RS is …
Continue to the full articleIf You Want To Take Nice Photos Of Your Porsche, Start Here
Michael Alan Ross is an icon in automotive photography with, ahem, decades of experience behind the lens. In a recent live-stream Q&A with the folks at PCA he sat down to provide some creative insight into what it takes to create a quality photograph of your car. Your Porsche deserves the best, right? You wouldn't want to show it to your …
Continue to the full articleJeff Zwart Is Returning To Pikes Peak In A New Porsche 935
If you've been paying attention to certain spheres of social media, you've known that Jeff Zwart would be racing a new 935 at Pikes Peak for quite some time now. The expert racer/photographer first teased the project back in October, and officially announced he'd been PPIHC accepted in February. It's been a long time coming, and we could not be any …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Grabs Double Podium Finish In Independence Day Sprint At Daytona
The IMSA racing season has been on hiatus since January due to the international pandemic still quietly raging in the background. Because so few states have allowed for large gatherings, the series is limited on where it can go right now, which means another run at Daytona follows the 24 Hours as round two. After a double podium finish behind the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Engine Room Is The Kind Of Place Dreams Are Made Of
Deep in the bowels of Porsche's PEC Atlanta facility lies a very special room where only very special people can tread. Almost forty of Porsche's greatest engines of the last twenty years line the walls of the so-called engine room, spanning generations of sports cars. These engines are traditionally used as training vehicles for Porsche's …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars North America Sales Still Significantly Down In Q2
The first three months of 2020 were exceedingly poor for, well, for all of us, really. But things went particularly bad for PCNA, which saw a massive 20+ percentage drop in sales from the previous year. Porsche has been on a growth strategy for almost ten years, and that was a huge hit to the company's sales logs. The coronavirus pandemic saw a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 718 Boxster Spyder and 718 Cayman GT4 Receive Optional PDK Transmission
Have you wanted to get yourself into Porsche's top-of-the-line mid-engine offering, but have been turned off by the row-your-own gearbox? Soon you'll have the ability to snag a track-focused Cayman GT4 or Boxster Spyder with a 7-speed Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe. What is commonly known as the best dual clutch in the automotive industry, …
Continue to the full articleWhat Sets The Taycan Turbo S Apart From The Taycan Turbo?
Okay, has it been long enough that we can stop worrying about Porsche calling the Taycan a "turbo" even though electric cars obviously don't have turbochargers yet? It's obvious that Porsche is using the word as a marketing buzzword to let people know that these are the fast ones. While I'm not going to say that it's okay, I think I'm done arguing …
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