Getting around the Green Hell with the sun shining overhead is hard enough. When the track is sodden, putting 520 horsepower to the pavement and not tapping a barrier is a Herculean challenge. For today's demonstration, we have Kevin Estre as our guide around the 12.9-mile circuit. The thirty-year-old Frenchman is a Porsche Supercup, FIA WEC, and …
Continue to the full articleDiving Deep into Analog Machines with One Man’s Cherished 997.1 GT3 RS
Some owners develop bonds with their cars so close that they make certain parent-child relationships cold and distant. Perhaps the involved relationship one must have when owning and modifying a car over the course of a decade, one might get closer to their car than they can with kin. Plus, a Porsche 997.1 GT3 RS doesn't make rude comments at …
Continue to the full articlePorsches Stand Proud Among A Fleet of Distinguished Sports Cars
You have to hand it to CAR magazine. Few gather such motley groups such as these and find a common thread through them all. Not many put a Lamborghini Huracan on the same stage as a Renault Megane. Because the cars featured here are both the spiffiest versions of the mentioned models, they find similarities which help them stand out as formidable …
Continue to the full articleThe 914-6 and the Cayman GT4: Siblings Separated by Fifty Years
Small, light, uncorrupted by gadgets, and honest. Both the 914-6 and the Cayman GT4 might not be the most powerful of the most focused Porsches, but my do they deliver the goods. Enough power in a perfectly balanced chassis is a recipe which will always go far. Fifty years ago, Porsche began developing a six-cylinder mid-engined road car, and the …
Continue to the full articleGT2 RS Clubsport Provides Sunday Drivers With Cheat Codes
As Porsche's first track-only 911 with turbos since the 993 GT2, the 991 GT2 RS Clubsport has a lot to prove. Both the 996 and the 997 versions of the GT2 came with the Clubsport option, but both were still street legal and neither received the same level of development over the "base" model. Perhaps that's for good reason. Those generations were …
Continue to the full articleJay Leno Gets Acquainted With Bisimoto’s 850-Horsepower ’75 911
It's funny to think that the M96 in the rear of this car once had a bad cylinder and a melted piston. Bisi Ezerioha, then only experienced with four-cylinder motors, saw an opportunity to resleeve the block, add Traum pistons and a handful of his own handmade internals. Now, the motor is force-fed by Turbonetics turbos, cooled by a Spearco …
Continue to the full articleHow Can Porsche Improve On The 991.2 GT3 RS?
"This is the most track-focused, surgically precise, lightest, most downforcey 911 that you can buy," Farah begins. The stance and aerodynamic additions leave nobody guessing what this monster is meant to do—as will the exhaust note. At 9,000 rpm, the scream the 4.0-liter makes sounds like Armageddon—the good kind. We're all familiar with the car, …
Continue to the full articleAmerica Runs On Porsche 911 GT3 Donuts
The Hoonigans might not be well known among our readers, but they are one of the biggest automotive YouTube channels around. Their audience is in the millions, and their videos are geared towards the tinkering type of gearheads who dream about high-quality AN fittings and elevate automotive customization to the level of fetish. This naturally …
Continue to the full articleManthey Tuned Porsche 993 RSR Blitzes Around Nurburgring GP Circuit
One of just forty-five 993 RSRs in existence, this 3.8-liter monster is a rare sight. Despite the small numbers, those curvaceous haunches, massive tires, and snorkels in the rear make you wonder why this model is not as well known. Perhaps this example deserves some special attention, since it's Olaf Manthey's very first racing car. A little …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Coca Cola Classic Liveries Return to Petit Le Mans
While not as iconic as the Gulf-liveried 917, the Coca-Cola cars from the 1980s tug at the heartstrings of the dedicated Porschephile. As a part of this year's final round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship at Road America, Porsche's works 911 RSRs will wear that classic red and white livery made famous through IMSA GTP. Coca-Cola's …
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