It's amazing how much Porsche tuning has changed within the last two decades. Twenty years ago cars like the Ruf CTR2 were at the forefront of Porsche tuning. TechArt wheels and aerokits were popular. Gemballa was making flatnose kits for 993s. While aggressive, modern looking air-cooled cars remain popular, backdating is very much in vogue. The …
Continue to the full articleThe Newest Video from Porsche Spans 70-years in Just 9 Minutes and 11 Seconds
Nine minutes and eleven seconds isn't much time to cover seven decades. The book Excellence Was Expected now covers nearly 1,700 pages. In just over nine minutes one could probably flip-book through a lot of the pages, and enjoy a few photos, but not much else. The latest edition of the 9:11 video magazine covers a lot of ground in not much time, …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Begins 2018 With Further Growth
Overall Growth Trends 2017 was a record year for Porsche. Based on the data we have since January, it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be another record year. In the first quarter of this year Porsche AG delivered around 63,500 vehicles worldwide. This represents an increase of 6% over 2017. North America and Europe have shown the most substantial …
Continue to the full articleCan Your Porsche Run on Whisky?
I can think of just one consumer-oriented car that will run on virtually anything combustible. Chrysler's Turbine car concept from 1963 was probably the first "flex fuel" vehicle. Users reportedly ran the small turbine on fuels ranging from gasoline and AvGas to perfume and whisky. Turbines are one matter, piston engines are quite another. Most …
Continue to the full articleCayman GT4 Clubsport Class Coming To Pikes Pike
Porsche's first motorsports win came in 1948 with Porsche no. 1 at a hill climb. Since then, Porsche has regularly participated in hill climb events. The brand has even built specialized cars, like the 909 Bergspyder which was recently featured in the Top 5 series as the lightest Porsche model. Drivers like Jeff Zwart and Porsche factory Driver …
Continue to the full articleFeels Familiar: A Turbocharged 911SC Made for Mulholland
Derek Whitacre and I seem to have similar priorities. Not all fun performance cars need to be set up for the track. Give up a little bit of spring rate, retain a bit of carpet, and suddenly the usability factor goes way, way up. That's not to say Mr. Whitacre's 1982 911SC is a mild or modest machine. This Porsche was built to attack Mulholland …
Continue to the full articleIntroducing the GT3 RS with Weissach Package
Porsche's recent weight loss kick has been a game of inches. The current crop of 911s are already very light, as I've noted a few times many current 911s and their equivalents from the 964 generation are pushing around the same amount of weight. When the 911 Carrera T debuted, it showed just how far this weight-loss game has come thanks to its …
Continue to the full articleInside the Boxer Engine with Hans Mezger
Hans Mezger is 88 years old, and his career designing engines spans decades. Mezger's hands were in everything from the 1960's Porsche Formula 1 racers to the 911 GT1. His engines remained in 911s through the 997 GT3 4.0 and 997.1 Turbo. It really feels as though everything Porsche produced since is compared to the Mezger flat-sixes. This family of …
Continue to the full articleAn Exercise In Traction: The Top 5 Fastest Accelerating Porsches
The current iteration of the horsepower wars is frankly a bit absurd. Today's fastest street cars would be required to have full roll cages and chassis certification under NHRA rules. Even the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid is fast enough to require a 6-point cage to make passes at your local drag strip. For the last several decades mind-bending …
Continue to the full articleTake an Augmented Reality Walkthrough of the Mission E
A good friend of mine is a campus security guard at a local college. Day in and day out he walks the campus, step by step improving his Pokemon Go game. Many games like Pokemon Go are centered around either working with a user's step count, or Virtual Reality. Porsche's new endeavor in augmented reality eschews both of these goals in favor of …
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