109 years after Dr. Porsche introduced the first fully functional hybrid car, Porsche is again talking seriously about more hybrid technology, including fully electric versions, being injected into their sports car model line-up. Far-fetched you say. Not so fast. As early as just last year Porsche tuner Ruf introduced the Ruf Greenster, while …
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As a Porsche fan, its been a bit frustrating over the last few years waiting for my favorite marque to get with the program and join the revolution, the social networking revolution that is. At times, it seems as if Porsche corporate moves at one of two speeds, slow or glacial. However, over the past few months something or someone has awakened …
Continue to the full articleBehind the Scenes of the Upcoming Porsche Panamera Commercial
In June of this year Porsche was hard at work filming the world debut commercial for the Porsche Panamera. The shoot used 16 cars from Jerry Seinfeld's collection and another 15 more from the likes of Roger Penske, Brumos, Mat Drendel and others. While the commercial was filmed at a former Marine Air Base in El Toro, California, it will be …
Continue to the full articleVideo Recap of Porsche’s Participation in Monterey
While this first video starts off a little slow, it does have it all; a compilation of all the other videos below. So, if you watch just one, this is it. However, I would highly recommend you take a look at each of them. Even though some of the footage repeats from video to video it is minimal and there are some amazing cars and shots included …
Continue to the full articleUsed Porsches Wanted and UnWanted
For the past few months I have written a post titled "Reader's Rides". This generally consisted of cars that readers of FlatSixes.com wanted to show-off or in most cases were looking to sell. Today, I'd like to change things up a bit. As the site continues to grow and the number of monthly readers has eclipsed the 12,000 mark I thought it might …
Continue to the full articleBaby Giant Killers
In the past week I’ve seen a number of stories related to Porsche that have little to no basis in fact. The most recent example was an article about David Beckham and a scale model Porsche Spyder 550 purportedly purchased for his son Brooklyn. The story started at a now defunct website and then once picked up by BornRich.org it went viral. The …
Continue to the full articleThe Latest Porsche News on the Net
The last couple of weeks were filled with lots of announcements regarding Porsche and Porsche related tuners and products. Rather than posting everything individually I thought I'd give you a quick overview with links to everything that's going on. This way you can read what's of interest and maybe check out a new interesting Porsche related site …
Continue to the full articleAir Powered Engine gets Compressed into Porsche Boxster
Alternative powered vehicles are all the rage right now. Earlier this week there was speculation about an electric Cayman by legendary Porsche tuner Ruf. Now, you know about air-cooled Porsches, how about a Porsche powered by air? That's exactly what was unveiled last week at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo by GIMM, Inc. The Silicon valley …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Improves Power and Fuel Economy
The following press release from Porsche couldn't have come at a more opportune time. With yesterday's post on an electric Cayman from Porsche tuner Ruf and tomorrow's post about a Porsche that runs on air, better fuel economy and more power fits right in to this weeks theme of alternatively powered Porsches. While you're on the site, don't …
Continue to the full articleFilling Your Dream Garage
We were talking with friends the other day and the following hypothetical question was asked, “If you had an unlimited budget but space for only five (5) Porsches, which five Porsches would you buy?” After discussing it for a few minutes, we decided that any Porsche could be included, even if there was no way it would ever be put up for sale. …
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