When the first race of the season kicked off in Saudi Arabia a couple of months ago Porsche looked pretty strong, particularly with the experienced Formula E racer André Lotterer at the wheel. With a well-earned podium place, the team hoped to build from that strength to get better throughout the season. Showing up in Santiago, Chile, was a dismal …
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Why the Carrera GT Still Pulls Our Heartstrings
In the era of turbochargers and PDK gearboxes we live in, it's easy to get distracted. Even mid-tier sports cars are just so supremely quick nowadays, there's a good chance that many fans forget about the other things which make a car truly special. Fortunately, we have videos like these. One brief encounter with the sonorous wail of the 5.7-liter …
Continue to the full articleThis Porsche Boxster Track Car Is Ready For The Apocalypse
This car asks far more questions than it answers. Originally built to race in the 24 Hours of Lemons series by Vali Motorsports, it's clear that this car's theme is "Does that even run?" and holy hell does it run. In as-shown spec it is running a 300-horsepower 3.6-liter flat six [it's certainly not a GT3-spec engine as is claimed in the video, …
Continue to the full articleDriving This Porsche 934/5 Up A Slick Hillclimb Looks Super Sketchy
Many think it takes self-belief that borders on megalomania to graze a mountain road's guardrails in a turbocharged 911. As it turns out, some of the race-bred machines of this era and configuration are planted and confidence-inspiring—even when it's wet out. Alexandre Comby, a Swiss hillclimber with some experience in lively Porsches, decided …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Is Bringing The Heat To The Bathurst 12 Hour Race
It seems like the motorsport season just ended a few weeks ago, and we're already diving into the deep end of the pool with an incredible International GT3 round in Australia with the 12 Hours of Bathurst in a couple weeks time. As the entry list started to come out, it became quite clear that Porsche is 100% dedicated to the effort, bringing in …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Global Sales Up 10% In 2019
The 2019 sales year was not kind to many automobile manufacturers with the overall Chinese automobile market severely slowing down for the second year in a row, and continued downward trends in car purchases for Europe and North America. Porsche, however, bucks the trend with a huge increase in sales volume in 2019 as compared to the previous year. …
Continue to the full articleThis Is What It’s Like To Go Racing With Porsche In Formula E
Porsche joined Formula E this season with a reasonably successful debut in the opening round. How did our favorite sports car brand get to this point? How much work, effort, simulator testing, manufacturing, and testing had to be completed to get two finished cars and teams ready to ship off to Diriyah for the first e-Prix of the season? As it …
Continue to the full articleThe Mercedes-Benz 500E Was Porsche’s First Super Sedan
Decades before Porsche built the first Panamera, it was assembling a different kind of sedan for Mercedes-Benz. Back in the early 1990s Porsche was running low on cash and it was happy to secure a contract to assemble a very fast muscle-sedan for cross-town rival Mercedes. The car was made possible by stuffing Merc's 5-liter from the SL into its …
Continue to the full articleThe Boxster Spyder Is The Roofless GT4 You Really Want
If you want the best Boxster money can buy, you get the new Spyder. With gorgeous and aggressive bodywork from Porsche's GT division to match its newly found suspension tweaks and a new 4-liter engine, the new Boxster Spyder is a good bit more hardcore than the previous iteration. Whereas the old Boxster Spyder featured a more road-going compliant …
Continue to the full articleDon’t Tell Anyone How Great The 986 Boxster Is
The 986 Boxster is a gem, but don't tell anyone how great it is. For those of us who know, this is one of the greatest Porsches to drive, own, and enjoy. It's truly a sports car you can drive everyday [I can confirm, I daily drove a 986 for several years!]. Right now the 986 is one of the best values in sports car ownership on the market today. …
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