Fans of Porsche will remember a model called the 928. With a front-mounted V8 engine, it carried a DNA quite different from the quintessential 911, which was kind of the point. Though it never replaced the 911, and has suffered much ire for even being involved in that discussion, the 928 was killed off in […]
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Four-Cylinder Boxster, Cayman and Macan On the Way
And what do we say about a day like today? It’s April 1, April Fools’ Day, and we want to believe that this is a practical joke. We want to think Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller is just indulging in some classic humor, using his office as chief of the one of the world’s most respected […]
Macan Diesel and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Coming
Ah, Volkswagen, and your love of diesels, we see you there! You might not have been literally sitting on the shoulder of Porsche Chairman Matthias Müller as he unveiled the company’s plans the other week inside the Leipzig factory, but we detected your presence nonetheless. We are speaking, of course, about the official press introduction […]
A Macan GTS Might Be Headed to the U.S., Says Porsche CEO
2014 looks like it will be a banner year for Porsche. With a recent Bloomberg estimate that the German automaker will surpass 200,000 vehicles sold in the year, one can only imagine the resounding sound of untold champagne bottles being simultaneously popped across the Atlantic Ocean. Two-hundred thousand vehicles was a company target, all right, […]
NAIAS 2014: The Porsche 911 Targa – Hoop There It Is
It’s here. (more…)