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!
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 …
Continue to the full articleHere’s Why The 987 Cayman R Is The Best Porsche Of The Decade
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 …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Top 5 Fastest Road-Legal Cars
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 …
Continue to the full articleA Brief History of the Weissach Axle: Stabilizing the 911
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 …
Continue to the full articleThe Appeal of the Flat Engine
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 …
Continue to the full articleThe History and Operation of Porsche Rear-Wheel Steering
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 …
Continue to the full articleA Brief History of Porsche AWD
At the risk of sounding trite, Porsches might be some of the most usable, real world-friendly machines thanks in large part to their sophisticated all-wheel drive systems. With all four wheels intelligently propelling their cars up the road, astronomical amounts of power and torque can be harnessed by the least experienced drivers in the most …
Continue to the full articleThis Mercedes G-Wagen Has A 928 Engine, And It Was Built To Help Porsche Win Dakar In 1986
Last July, Porsche hauled a few of their large-and-in-charge off-roaders into the museum for a special exhibit on the history of Porsche's jacked-up four-wheel-drivers. Among them was a Mercedes G-Wagen support vehicle for the company's Dakar efforts in the mid-1980s. I'd seen this car in photographs of the display before, but I didn't know the …
Continue to the full articleWhy the Porsche 911 Remains Rear-Engined
It's a question that's befuddled many car lovers over the last half-century. Why, knowing what we now know about vehicle dynamics, does Porsche insist on keeping the 911's motor in the rear? Over the years, the recalcitrant behavior this layout was known to cause has been replaced with impeccable manners. Chalk it up to improved body control, …
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