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Learn the History of Porsche’s GT Range With These Legends

11/28/20204:52 estFiled to: Porsche Factoids, Porsche GT2/GT3By: Tommy ParryComment

Building upon Henry Catchpole's recent trip to this dream garage, Mr. Chris Harris, a man with an unrivaled fondness for the GT range of Porsche products, takes us on a detailed tour of all the hottest 911s Porsche has released over the last two decades. As Harris acknowledges early in this clip, discussing the subtle improvements along the …

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Porsche Found Extra Horsepower With 3D-Printed Pistons

7/13/202011:04 estFiled to: Porsche Factoids, Porsche GT2/GT3By: Bradley Brownell1 Comment

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 …

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Did You Know That Porsche Helped Develop These Six Cars?

4/23/20201:05 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Bradley BrownellComment

Porsche has always been an engineering firm first, working diligently to craft automotive designs for other companies on contract. Sometimes, like in the early 1990s when Porsche was in a rough place, these engineering contracts helped keep the lights on. This means there are a handful of cars running around on the road with just a smidgen of …

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The Mercedes-Benz 500E Was Porsche’s First Super Sedan

1/7/20201:51 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Bradley Brownell1 Comment

Decades before Porsche built the first Panamera, it was assembling a different kind of sedan for Mercedes-Benz. Back in the early 1990s Porsche was running low on cash and it was happy to secure a contract to assemble a very fast muscle-sedan for cross-town rival Mercedes. The car was made possible by stuffing Merc's 5-liter from the SL into its …

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The Porsche Taycan Is Quicker Than A Tesla Model S And Science Proves It!

1/2/202012:35 estFiled to: Electric Porsche, Porsche FactoidsBy: Bradley BrownellComment

Based purely on the numbers, Tesla claims that the Model S Performance will sprint from 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, while Porsche claims a 2.6 second 0-60 for the Taycan Turbo S. But Top Gear recently put the two cars up head to head, and found the Taycan was quicker in real-world testing by just a few fractions of a second. Since then people have been …

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Here’s Why The 987 Cayman R Is The Best Porsche Of The Decade

12/27/201912:45 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Bradley Brownell2 Comments

The decade which began in 2010 comes to a close next week, and it's got me feeling a little nostalgic for the good times. When were the good times you ask? Why 2012 of course! When you consider the lineup of incredible new models that Porsche has built across the last ten years, there is only one that stands out to me as the best. Better than …

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Porsche’s Top 5 Fastest Road-Legal Cars

12/19/20188:23 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Tommy ParryComment

When a car as fearsome and fast as the latest 911 Turbo S is bringing up the rear, you know you're in for a spectacular list of supercars. Though each these five were approached in different ways, in different times, with distinct aims, but the through-line with all these is their outrageous speed. The 991 Turbo S is one of the fastest off the …

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A Brief History of the Weissach Axle: Stabilizing the 911

7/16/20189:53 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Tommy ParryComment

Toward the end of the seventies, it seemed the 911's days were numbered. Due to legal embroilments and a largely unjustified reputation, the rear-engined marvel was becoming feared by many, and the company was turning their attentions to a front-engined successor with a sweeter disposition. The technologically advanced 928 arrived in 1977 with …

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The Appeal of the Flat Engine

7/13/20188:18 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Tommy Parry4 Comments

Along with that telltale silhouette of the heavy-haunched 911, the other item synonymous with the Porsche brand is the flat engine. The first example of this configuration was constructed by Carl Benz in 1896; built with the same basic layout as the current crop of Porsche's flat engines. Thanks to that odd configuration of cylinders, with …

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The History and Operation of Porsche Rear-Wheel Steering

4/25/20181:58 estFiled to: Porsche FactoidsBy: Tommy ParryComment

While four-wheel steering wasn't uncommon twenty-five years ago in the heyday of tech-heavy sports cars, we seem to have left some of those gizmos behind with the implied understanding that they were superfluous. Yet, with lengthening wheelbases in the current Porsche lineup and more and more weight, it's become a useful tool to make the latest …

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