Back in 1981 Porsche had the 911 on the chopping block. The 928 was always intended to take over as the company's flagship model, and the 911 was destined to fade away into the history books. Even though the 911's popularity never really waned through the 70s and early 80s, it was just going to keep floating in the market without any updates until …
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50 years of RS: Porsche celebrates its original track special 911
Back in October of 1972, nearly fifty years ago, Porsche unveiled the car that would set into motion one of the most highly revered lineups of track cars any automaker has ever built. For Porsche fanatics, the letters R and S, when combined, conjure dreams of high-rev flat six engines, high grip, more downforce, lightweight bodywork, and incredible …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars North America celebrates its colorful history with new display in Atlanta headquarters
The Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, also known as One Porsche Drive, plays the part of Porsche Cars North America's headquarters (and the Avengers compound). As part of the massive immersive Porsche, er, well, Experience, the company has a small museum with a constantly rotating cast of cars from P-car past. We've been to visit the little …
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 …
Continue to the full articleHans Mezger died before his 911 restoration was finished, so his son finished it in his memory
Oliver Mezger has a long familial history with this particular Porsche 911. When he was just a boy laying in bed while his father Hans worked late, the car was a lullaby to let young Oliver know that his father had arrived home from a long day of making Porsches go faster, and he was free to fade into the depths of slumber. The family's house was …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s famed Soundnacht will finally be livestreamed all over the world
Every year, the Porsche museum has an event unlike any other. Sound Nacht. On this special night they actually start the museum cars, let them run, and rev them for those in attendance to hear. Porsche knows that their cars, more than most, incorporate an aural quality to the experience, and they are more than happy to show that off. For the first …
Continue to the full articleExcellent Ruf Exhibit Open Now At The Petersen Museum
In partnership with our favorite aircooled Porsche show Luftgekuhlt, Los Angeles, California's best automotive museum The Petersen has launched a new exhibit to celebrate the greatest Porsche-based supercar manufacturer in the world. Ruf was founded in 1939, and spent decades building and rebuilding some of the greatest sports cars in history. It …
Continue to the full articleNew York Auto Museum Adds 16-Car Aircooled Porsche Exhibit You Absolutely Need To See
We get it. You've been cooped up in your house for the last year and a half, you're ready to get back out into the world and experience cool car stuff again. The time has come to get back to normal, and the Saratoga Automobile Museum has you Porsche fanatics covered with its new exhibit. Rare Air is a 16-car display documenting the best air-cooled …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Santa Clarita’s Wunderground Museum Is An Amazing Sampling Of Porsche History
Why is there a hole in the floor of this Porsche dealership showroom? Oh, there's a brand-new all-carbon Porsche 935 down there. You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. What is the Wunderground? In what was once used as underground storage for a Saturn dealership, there now exists a gorgeous mini-museum dedicated to all things …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Engine Room Is The Kind Of Place Dreams Are Made Of
Deep in the bowels of Porsche's PEC Atlanta facility lies a very special room where only very special people can tread. Almost forty of Porsche's greatest engines of the last twenty years line the walls of the so-called engine room, spanning generations of sports cars. These engines are traditionally used as training vehicles for Porsche's …
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