Coming up for auction early next month at the Amelia Island weekend is this 1968 Porsche 911 S Coupe. Once the FIA relegated the 911 R to Group 6 Prototype classification, Porsche decided to offer many of the parts from that project as after-sales add-ons in a 60-page Sports Purpose Handbook. This allowed customer racers to add factory racing parts …
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Porsche Drive Rental Service Comes to Canada
Summer is here, and Montreal has emerged from the grip of the ice-choked St. Lawrence river. Canada's window of clear weather has arrived, and Porsche has just the thing for the now sun-drenched Canadian population. Porsche Drive, a Porsche rental service that launched at the Porsche Museum in 2014, has arrived in Canada. Interested drivers can …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars Canada April 2018 Sales Report By Model
In 2017, Porsche sold an unprecedented 8,249 units in Canada, up 17% over the previous year. If things keep going as they have in 2018 thus far, they could be on track for an even stronger 2018. Across the first four months of the year, Porsche Cars Canada has seen a 4% increase in total unit sales, while Panamera sales are registering higher than …
Continue to the full articleToronto Arsonist Fires Up Cayenne In The Middle Of The Night
There's an unwritten rule about not messing with another person's car. There are definitely written rules about arson, but it's all the more egregious when the subject of the attack is an innocent Porsche. This poor Cayenne was lit up and burned to the ground at about 5:30 in the morning on December 29th, and nobody seems to know who would have …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars of Canada Announces New Leadership
Porsche of Canada has been doing extremely well. As of our last report on their sales, back in September, overall sales were up some 15% over the year to date. Alexander Pollich, head of Porsche Cars Canada since 2013, has presided over 70-months of continuous growth. Over the last four years of Mr. Pollich's leadership, Porsche has relocated and …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Sports Driving School Comes to Canada
Porsche Cars Canada has been on a tear for the last five years in terms of sales. In fact, as of December 2016 they had shown more than 60 months of consecutive growth, selling nearly 1,000 911s and more than 7,000 Porsches in total. As the number of Porsches in Canada has increased, so have the opportunities for those Porsche owners. Earlier …
Continue to the full articleAvoiding An Accident In A GT3 Cup Car Takes Talent, And A Whole Lot Of Luck
Coming to green to start the combined Canada/USA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge at Watkins Glen this weekend, there was a bit of a physics problem. The problem mostly related to how well their Yokohama tires found traction and grip in the grass, and whether or not it was possible for two cars to occupy the same space at the same time. As it turns out, …
Continue to the full articleA Letter Home From Porsche’s Camp4 Canada
Mother and Father, Camp is going really well. All of the other campers are really cool, and the counselors are very nice. I'm learning a lot at camp, including throttle control, ice driving maneuvers, and methods of using your brakes to initiate oversteer. Porsche's Camp4 at Mécaglisse is a whole lot of fun, and as much as I miss home, I sort …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 918 Destroyed In Gas Station Fire
Earlier tonight the number of possible Porsche 918 Sypders on the road looks to be reduced by one. According to the limited information we have available at this point, most of it from Twitter and Instagram, the Porsche world lost its first E-hybrid supercar to a fueling fire of unknown origins. 918 Spyder on fire at Caledon Esso Gas Station …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Restoration Funding By Kickstarter: Bad Idea? Or The Worst Idea Ever??
In a case of Manifest Destiny, the voracity of which was generally reserved for American colonial settlers, a Montreal-based Canadian racing internet forum has apparently claimed a stricken Porsche 924 as their own after a member found it languishing in the wilderness. Without questioning who the car belonged too, whose land it was on, or what the …
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