The current iteration of the horsepower wars is frankly a bit absurd. Today's fastest street cars would be required to have full roll cages and chassis certification under NHRA rules. Even the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid is fast enough to require a 6-point cage to make passes at your local drag strip. For the last several decades mind-bending …
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Porsche Highlights From the Group 5 Demo Run At Goodwood
No matter which camp your motorsport allegiances lie, it is a fact that the most ubiquitous and iconic car of the Group 5 era is Porsche's wild aerodynamically shaped 911-based prototype, the 935. This year, for the 76th Members Meeting at Goodwood, a few dozen of the greatest Group 5 cars were invited out to parade around the circuit in a …
Continue to the full articleTake an Augmented Reality Walkthrough of the Mission E
A good friend of mine is a campus security guard at a local college. Day in and day out he walks the campus, step by step improving his Pokemon Go game. Many games like Pokemon Go are centered around either working with a user's step count, or Virtual Reality. Porsche's new endeavor in augmented reality eschews both of these goals in favor of …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results and Pictures at the 12 Hours of Sebring
This weekend in central Florida, Porsche set about rectifying their transgressions at Daytona back in January. After failing to so much as put one car on any class podium, they came to Sebring with something to prove. They'd run strong here in 2017, but bad luck took them out of contention. They needed this win to get the monkey off of their back. …
Continue to the full articleSix-Time Le Mans Winner Pranks the Valets
A surprise within a surprise. In this Inception-style gag, the mischievous Belgian Jacky Ickx gets the upper hand on a troop of valets who offer a new Panamera for sampling. The reactions are wonderful, and the patrons of this upscale Thai hotel say everything; their faces beam as they're given a taste of one of most refined sports-luxury sedans on …
Continue to the full articleAT THE AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS: RESURRECTION OF AN RSK
This year marks my sixth year at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance for FLATSIXES.com, and it has been quite the experience every year for both me and my family. Usually I try to add photos or some sort of other documentation of all the representatives of my favorite marque (Porsche), but this year I decided to do things a little differently. …
Continue to the full articleLuftgekühlt 5 Porsche Registration Sells Out in Just 15 Hours Of Ticket Sales
Within 15 hours of registration opening, and before the actual venue has even been announced, Luftgekühlt 5 has filled their rosters and marked all entry tickets as 'sold out'! While we do not know exactly how many Porsches have entered, the answer is sure to be 'a lot'. The show continues to grow with each passing year, and this April, …
Continue to the full articleWhat To Look For When Buying A 911 Carrera 3.2
To some Porsche fans, the Carrera 3.2 is considered the pinnacle of Porsche aircooled, as it still used essentially the same chassis Porsche developed in the 1960s, but it had the power and creature comforts you needed for the car to cut the mustard in regular daily use. Later 964s turned off some traditionalists because that chassis dumped the …
Continue to the full articleReport: Porsche Is Planning Two-Door and Cabriolet Mission E Variants
Last week we got some good news from Porsche out of the Geneva Motor Show and now we're hearing some more. Thanks to this report from Car & Driver in which they spoke with Porsche's head of EV development, Stefan Weckbach, we now know where Porsche is aiming the future of their electric offerings. This conversation seems to confirm a few …
Continue to the full article2018 Porsche Amelia Island Auction Results
Gooding & Co's. 2018 Amelia Island Porsche Auction Results Total Porsches Offered: 37 | Total Porsches Sold: 34 | Total Porsche Sales: $15,636,800 | Sell Through Rate: 91.8% We were a bit surprised by Gooding's headliner, the 1974 911 Carrera RSR, Porsche's first turbocharged race car ever, moving on as a no-sale lot. The bidding was …
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