Imagine driving Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett's Porsche 911 C4 jamming to Metallica on the stereo he paid $20,000 for back in 1990. Kirk's car stereo was featured in one of the Car and Driver type magazines (I've not been able to track down the exact details and Kirk just doesn't remember.) This collectors dream is a direct descendent of the awe …
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Results of This Week’s Poll: “What Was the Best Car Movie Ever?”
At the beginning of the week I asked you What was the Best Car Movie Ever Made? I gave you my criteria and 10 choices. The poll received a total of 94 votes and showed a very clear winner. The results are below. Not surprisingly (this is a Porsche site after all) Le Mans won quite easily with 39 votes or 41%. Pretty much tied for a very …
Continue to the full articleCompetition makes the Porsche 911 a Better Car
In a post last month we asked the question is Porsche the “Benchmark” for all Other Supercars? That particular post showcased a video of the GT-R facing off against a 997 Turbo and referenced a prior entry regarding a road test of the new Nissan GT-R vs. a Porsche 997 Turbo and the resulting debate about which car is better/faster. There was …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Showcases New Endurance Racer
Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, adds another member of the 911 family to its range of products. The new GT3 Cup S, based on the road-going GT3 RS sportscar, is created exclusively for racing purposes. The Weissach-developed and built vehicle will race in international championships which run in accordance with FIA GT3 …
Continue to the full articleRun Forrest Run! How to Avoid the Most Common Car Related Scams.
There has been a lot of discussion on various Porsche forums and other car centric blogs regarding possible scams that buyers and sellers of Porsche cars and products can get caught up in. Most of this is common sense, but a little refresher never hurts. It may be a scam if… If it’s too good to be true - it probably is. We all want to …
Continue to the full articleWhat was the Best Car Movie Ever Made?
Recently, I’ve been working on adding to my DVD collection. In doing so, I started looking through my collection of what I consider to be “car” movies. It got me to thinking: How do you determine what qualifies as a “car” movie and, more importantly, how do you determine the best “car” movie ever made? Determining what qualifies as a “car" …
Continue to the full articleNot Everything Porsche does is Worth Mentioning
I've noticed that Porsche has really picked up the amount of press releases they are sending out. What was once only a weak trickle has increased significantly over the past couple of weeks to more of torrent. The result of all this news is that it's really not that interesting. Take today's most recent press release: Porsche Sales in North …
Continue to the full articleBeautiful Women + Porsche + Russia + Crime don’t mix. A tragic loss.
In a tragic story from late last week, Russia's most well known female bodyguard, Anna Loginova, was killed trying to thwart the carjacking of her own Porsche Cayenne. According to the various reports and anonymous quotes from those at the scene, "she suffered serious injuries and died at the scene". Witness's say she was seen clinging to …
Continue to the full article200,000th Cayenne rolls off the assembly line
Production Jubilee at Porsche Leipzig GmbHLeipzig. Right at the beginning of the New Year, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, celebrated a special production jubilee: employees at the Leipzig plant put the finishing touches to the 200,000th Cayenne. The automobile, a red GTS, will be delivered to a customer in the Middle East. The Cayenne GTS …
Continue to the full articleIf it Wasn’t so Funny, it Would be Getting Old!
We make it a point to write all of our own posts. We spend a fair amount of time scouring the internet looking for interesting topics with regard to Porsche; we research and prepare articles; we poll readers of this blog for their thoughts, etc., you get the idea. However, in the last two weeks we've seen so many articles about other …
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