We spent most of last week in New York as a guest of Porsche at the NYIAS for the North American premier of the 2014 Porsche 911 GT3. We arrived on Tuesday and were escorted to our hotel in a new Cayenne Diesel. Similar to our recent trip to Amelia Island, upon check-in at our hotel, we were handed over a Porsche branded room key. This time it featured the new 911 GT3 we were there to see. Once again we were able to grab a handful of these to give away here on the site. Read on for details on how you can get one for your collection.
In addition to showing off the new GT3 for the first time here in the US Porsche used the event to continue their "50 Years of the Porsche 911" celebration with a party. The festivities kicked off on Tuesday night with a cocktail reception at the Standard Biergarten (part of the Standard Hotel in the Meat Packing District).
Before the party got underway Porsche rolled in a 911 Carrera 4S as well as a very special 1968 Porsche 911 Sportmatic from the collection of Prescott Kelly. Believe it or not, the '68 911 is 100% original, including paint and interior. It was a nice reminder for those in attendance that Porsche continue to stay true to their design heritage and that the new 991 (as well as the GT3 without a manual transmission) share the same DNA for the last 50 years.
The party began at 6:00 pm and rolled along until 9:00 pm. For the next three hours we spoke with everyone from Hurley Haywood to PCNA's CEO Detlev von Platen. While attended mostly by media types we did get a chance to speak with a number of local dealers who were in town for the show. We asked all of them the same thing, "how's the response to the new GT3?" Everyone of them was enthusiastic in their response and suggested that while they don't yet know their specific allocation, they've all taken numerous deposits and now need to allocate cars to their best customers to make sure they don't over-promise. At face value, it doesn't seem like the lack of a manual transmission is hurting sales (nor should it in our opinion, but more on that later).
There was no cake until the following day at the press conference, but it was worth waiting for.
Do You Want One of These Porsche Keys for Your Memorabilia Collection?
More than 100 of you asked for one of the Amelia Island Keys so chances are a few of you might want one of these GT3 keys. If so, we got stack from the front desk and we'll give them away over the next week. You don't need to do anything special. Simply comment on this post letting us know you're interested and at the end of the week we'll randomly select 15 winners and list them in the comments here and on Facebook. Don't forget to give us a good email address so we can reach you to get your shipping address in the event your chosen. Good luck and thanks for reading!
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Heck yeah, I want a key! Great reports from the NY Auto Show. Looks like Porsche had a great series of events!
Certainly would like one of the room keys:-)
Awesome key! Hope I win one.
Great looking key. Would love to add to my collection!
A Porsche key—what an original just like our brand
one of a kind
thanks for the oppurtunity
Great key – please enter me and I hope to win one!
A very nice collectible. Count me in please!
If you don’t want one of these, you’re not a porschephile. Hopefully I can snag a P-key.
Thanks,
Geez, one of these keys would be the Bee’s knees, please? Thanks for the offer.
;^)
I would love a key… Danke!!!
Thanks for sharing. I would like one, please.
Do you I get to pick who’s room it’ll fit? 🙂
I would certainly like to add this one to my collection! Thanks for posting!
I would love to add this to my collection.
You guys rock. Thank you for the news and opportunity.
Just wish I could have been there.
Would be great to win a key
I would very much like to have a room key. Thanks for your great blog and newsletter. – Larry
As you can see by my email address I am a Poschephile so would love oneth tohse keys.
I’d like an Amelia Island key 🙂
great idea! a key would be nice to own!
Sure would like one of these keys to go along with my other Porsche treasures for sure!! THANKS !!
Definitely want to have one! Thanks for the generous offer.
A key would be nice (a new car even better 😉
Thanks for the offer – count me in!
Since I didn’t get into the 150 selected for the show, at least maybe I can a Porsche key.
First car was a 58 Ghia, many ghias later in1989 I got my first Porche. In 40 plus years never been with out an air cooled german car. Sure would have liked to have been there to have a nice Hefewiezen! A key might help with the loss!
I am on my 4th. Porsche. I certainly would like a collector key from New York show!
THANKS!…….. I’ll take a Porsche Key from New York…….THANKS!
Guten tag,
Unfortunately I could not attend the NYAS this year so your 39 picts helped fill in the gap asI could see the latest edition of my favorite marque. A key ? A key? The whole world for a key!
With this door key, will there be a Porsche behind the door?
I’m a Boxster guy…mine is 2003 Boxster S, but I like anything about PORSCHE. I’d hoped to attend the show, but my business got in the way.
I’d love to have a commemorative key so I could pretend I attended the show. BTW, I love the FlatSixes site…I look forward to it showing up in my mailbox!
What a great way to remember the 50th anniversary. If I get lucky enough to receive one of the keys, I think I will adapt it to a luggage key for my carry on. What a terrific way to spread the word about Porsche’s new 911. Here goes, fingers crossed. Thanks for the opportunity. Jim
What a great piece of artwork. Just like the 911.
From my bone stock, 20,000 mile ’89 930 to my ’09 650 HP 997 Turbo, the key would look great framed on the wall between the two!. Thanks
yes i would be glad to recieve a door card thanks carey
I really enjoy your web site down here in New Zealand & have done for a couple of years. How you feed so much information so often amazes me!?
Can you give us some background on yourselves ( I have read some bits somewhere deep in your site) I’d especially be interested in how many readers you now have?
Congratulations on developing something special for us Porsche fans.
I have a Adventura Green,( same as yours?) 993 manual of which I’m the second owner, the first owned it for 16 years!
Please put my name in for the special key.
Thanks
BenH
Hi, Bennick,
Glad you’re enjoying the site, it seems we have a number of New Zealand readers these days.
Our 993 is Forrest Green Metallic over full leather Cashmere, there’s a picture on our “about” page (just click on it for a larger version)
Info on readers depends on how you judge it. The site receives a little over 60,000 unique visitors each month. In addition our e-newsletter is read by more than 12,000 via email and RSS. Combined with 35,000+ fans on Facebook, 3,000 + on Twitter, etc. etc. we’re reaching a lot of Porsche owners and fans. 🙂
Thanks again and we have your entry.
Love one of the keys – great show
Sign me up! Since I missed the last one, maybe better luck this time!
Love to get one. Thank you!
I’ll take a room key 🙂 Thanks
I would love one of those keys….do I get one of the big steins of beer too…please!
Here are the random folks who won a Porsche room key from the NYIAS. Please use our contact form to get in touch and send us your mailing address. Give us a week or two to get the card to you as we want to compile everyone’s address and make one mailing run. Thanks to everyone for participating and thanks for reading our site. We’ll have another contest coming soon.
Mark Shimonkevitz
Jack Bair
Jeff M
Tom Westfall
Bennick Harding
Jim Rand
Knute Hancock
Peter Linsky
Lawrence Kwei
Andrea LeBlanc
Ken Souser
Walt Cronin
Kevin Zemnikas
Don Readinger
That room key would be perfect to be framed with my 1964 911 photos!
Sorry, Larry, this contest ended some time ago. If you look at the comments above you’ll see we announced the winners a while ago. Stay tuned for other contests.
great job you hit all the hilights and finish whit abeer that grate itaste it now
What I really want is a Flat Sixes T shirt with that 993 on it . How do I get one of those? from a proud 993 owner. Thanks
Hey, Steve,
They are coming soon. They should be ready for shipping by the beginning of July. We’ll let you know once they are back from the screen printer and available.
Fifty years. How time flies. I’ve not been disappointed with any Porsche I have owned. I can’t imagine what a new one offers in the form of entertainment.
Great idea, giving away exclusive Porsche branded keys! FlatSixes continues to set the industry standard by leading the way with innovative and relevant articles and photos that pique the interest of all Porsche enthusiasts. I do hope to receive one of the keys this go around since I missed it last time. Perhaps my luck will change this time. Keep up the great work, FlatSixes!
Flatsixes.com does everything Porsche better than any or the Porsche dedicated magazines out there. Thanks for the dedication!
I was fortunate to have seen the 911/50 (and the 918 Spyder) at the recent Frankfurt Auto Show.
Would love a key!
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Sorry, Bob. This contest ended months ago. However, stay tuned. We have 2 new keys coming up in the next month or so.