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This is your chance to buy an extremely rare manual transmission Porsche Panamera

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Did you know Porsche offered a manual transmission in the Panamera luxury sedan? No? Well that's probably because it was only available in Europe, and only 146 of them were ever built. As Porsches go, 146 of something is incredibly rare. Is this a collector-grade car just because of the transmission? I don't really think it is, because this is a …

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Here’s everything that makes the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS so special

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Porsche's newest lightweight track monster is the 493-horsepower mid-engine mega Cayman shown here. Laden with carbon fiber and lightweight touches — like decal badges instead of plastic or metal — the Cayman GT4 RS weighs just a smidge over 3,000 pounds, some fifty pounds lighter than a standard GT4. This is the first mid-engine car to ever wear …

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2021 Porsche Panamera 4S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo review: Sports car for four

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A four-door Porsche may sound blasphemous because the brand is associated with sports cars like the 911. However, Porsche has a history with practical performance cars because it codeveloped the Mercedes-Benz 500 E, an iconic sports sedan from the early 1990s. It also collaborated with Audi for the RS 2 and Volvo to create the 850 T5R. The 2021 …

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Pfaff Motorsports graduates to GTD Pro with Porsche factory drivers

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The Plaid Porsche is back after an incredible 2021 season which saw the Pfaff Motorsports team from Canada secure the GTD championship in flying fashion. For 2022 the black and red and silver GT3 R will be moving up ranks to the new GTD Pro category with an all-new Porsche-backed driver lineup. In 2021 the car ran with Laurens Vanthoor and Zacharie …

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Porsche and Penske are taking this LMDh program extremely seriously

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This weekend Porsche proved just how far ahead of the curve it was than the competition by releasing the first actual photographs of an actual LMDh category car ahead of its 2023 season launch. There are five major automotive manufacturers joining the category for its inaugural season, but thus far Porsche is the only one to show off a finished …

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Manthey Racing develops a new aero package to make your 992 GT3 even faster

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As a Porsche fanatic, you probably already know about Manthey Racing. The racing team company based at the Nurburgring has been made a subsidiary of Porsche in recent years, and currently runs Zuffenhausen's 911 RSR program in FIA WEC competition. It also built the street-legal body kit that helped the 991 GT2 RS achieve the fastest production car …

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Here are ten things I learned driving a Porsche Taycan across the country

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A few months ago I received a phone call that I didn't expect. A television producer friend of mine asked if I'd like to be involved in a cross-country electric vehicle competition called Charge Across America. As it happened, I was quite interested in the idea, and rang up Porsche to see if it had a Taycan in New York that I could deliver to Los …

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Spied: Updated 992.2 Porsche 911 Turbo spied cold weather testing in Sweden

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The cold of Sweden is a perfect place to cold weather test a car, but it might not be the best place to avoid the keen eyes of a spy photographer. What your looking at here is an early prototype of the 992.2 generation of the 911. This Turbo model shares the same rear end of the 992 generation, but there are big changes up front. There's a new …

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