As a Porsche fanatic, you probably already know about Manthey Racing. The racing team company based at the Nurburgring has been made a subsidiary of Porsche in recent years, and currently runs Zuffenhausen's 911 RSR program in FIA WEC competition. It also built the street-legal body kit that helped the 991 GT2 RS achieve the fastest production car …
Continue to the full articleHere are ten things I learned driving a Porsche Taycan across the country
A few months ago I received a phone call that I didn't expect. A television producer friend of mine asked if I'd like to be involved in a cross-country electric vehicle competition called Charge Across America. As it happened, I was quite interested in the idea, and rang up Porsche to see if it had a Taycan in New York that I could deliver to Los …
Continue to the full articleWatch this vintage rally 911 scream through the woods for 10 minutes
Yesterday we brought you the story of a vintage 911 rally car simulator, but today we're showing you the real thing. This is Andreas Dahms' 1974 Carrera that has been running down the stages for time immemorial. This car and driver combo have been together since at least 2014 when they began running ADAC-sanctioned rally in Germany. Despite running …
Continue to the full articleNow is your chance to buy a wrecked Porsche Carrera GT for just a few hundred thousand dollars
Someone in St. Louis wrecked maybe the most iconic supercar in Porsche history, and here is your chance to buy it. I'm going to sound like an old man here, but I remember not that long ago when you could buy a perfect Carrera GT for around 300,000 American dollars. Those days are gone, and the CGT has exploded in value by around a million dollars …
Continue to the full articleThis simulator was built to replicate the analog feeling of a vintage Porsche rally car
Have you ever used a really good driving simulator? I've spent a bit of time in a proper CXC sim, and while the smells and the G-forces aren't quite right, it comes about as close to driving a car as you can get without actually driving a car. Most of the times I've been in them, I'm driving a digital facsimile of a car I'll never be allowed to …
Continue to the full articlePorsche leaves Formula E pre-season test better prepared than ever
After an extremely hard-fought five-session pre-season test session last week in Valencia, Spain, the Porsche Formula E team feels it is prepared for Season 8 of the championship. That's good, because season 8 begins in just a month and a half with a double-header in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Over the course of the test, Porsche drivers Andre Lotterer …
Continue to the full articleThis Porsche 944 is an excellent retro homage to Apple Computer’s racing days
There exists an enigmatic artist in the American Northeast with an obsession for creating meticulously crafted images of cars and her terrible Porsche in perhaps equal measure. Syd is among the most creative photographers in the automotive world right now, and her most recent “Apple Car” shoot is all the proof you need to see why. “That car …
Continue to the full articleReport: Volkswagen’s Porsche IPO is back on
Just over a month ago Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Deiss assured everyone on the third quarter earnings call that the company would not be selling off assets. This came in the face of growing concerns that the company was looking to offload Lamborghini and Ducati, and that Porsche might be spun off with its own initial public offering. Porsche, in …
Continue to the full articlePorsche designed an electric hypercar for a video game
Porsche is the latest in a long line of companies to build super fast concept cars explicitly for Polyphony's Gran Turismo series of racing video games. Always dubbed Vision Gran Turismo, these cars allow major manufacturers and their designers the opportunity to go flat out without regard for anything that would actually ever be available for …
Continue to the full articlePorsche nearly built a 959 replacement with a watercooled V8
There are always points in history where if things had happened slightly differently, the future might have turned out seriously differently. These are the moments where the multiverse splits and there is another theoretical existence where modern 911s could be powered by dual overhead cam watercooled V8 engines. There was a point in the 1980s …
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