Just over a month ago Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Deiss assured everyone on the third quarter earnings call that the company would not be selling off assets. This came in the face of growing concerns that the company was looking to offload Lamborghini and Ducati, and that Porsche might be spun off with its own initial public offering. Porsche, in …
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This week’s Porsche cartoon: Minivans are cool, right? RIGHT?!
Porsche designed an electric hypercar for a video game
Porsche is the latest in a long line of companies to build super fast concept cars explicitly for Polyphony's Gran Turismo series of racing video games. Always dubbed Vision Gran Turismo, these cars allow major manufacturers and their designers the opportunity to go flat out without regard for anything that would actually ever be available for …
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 articleRuf doesn’t build Porsches
Founded way back in 1939, and rising to fame in the 1980s with its high-performance Porsche-based CTR "Yellowbird" Ruf has been building gorgeous and fast machines for decades. While much of what the company has built is based on Porsche chassis, for decades it stripped everything down to its component parts and engineered every single piece to …
Continue to the full articleThe Exciting Porsche Meeting shows us how our friends in Japan celebrate Porsche
The Exciting Porsche Meeting completed recently in Yokohama, Japan, and attracted what appeared like hundreds of cars to show off and to share fellowship (here's a car list). We had a man on the ground to show us what we're missing back here Stateside. It looks like it was a heck of an event and something we'd definitely want to attend. But you …
Continue to the full articleThis week’s Porsche cartoon: *Hacker Voice* I’m in
Porsche kicks off Formula E pre-season testing in solid form
Season 8 of FIA Formula E world championship electric open wheel racing begins in January, but all of the teams gathered in Spain to try out some new parts this week. Porsche came to the party with its third update of the 99X Electric race car, again for Pascal Wehrlein and Andre Lotterer. There are other changes, obviously, but one big superficial …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Paint-To-Sample program expands to offer one-of-a-kind paints, more colors, and faster turnaround times
Porsche knows what its customers want, and that's a fact. Right now, it seems, Porsche buyers want the option of color, lots of color. The company recently invested a ton of money expanding the paint shop in the Zuffenhausen factory, because it needed to be able to keep up with demand for Paint-To-Sample colors. The old paint shop could really only …
Continue to the full articleReport: Porsche is developing a 7-seat SUV even bigger than the Cayenne
According to a recent report from Automotive News and The Drive, Porsche is developing a massive three-row SUV with a vertical rear tailgate codenamed Landjet. Don't get me wrong, Porsche Landjet is a super awesome name, and I hope something eventually gets that name, but do we really want a Porsche family hauler? Does anyone? Apparently Porsche …
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