You know that scene in the The Fast & The Furious where that one character drives really fast & furious? That’s what driving the 2015 Porsche Carrera S is like. Not to say that this Porsche is anything like a B-list action movie full of B-list actors. We mean instead that if you could put […]
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Better Get One Fast: Value of 1970s-era 911s Skyrocketing
It’s a classic question: if you could own any Porsche, which would you choose? But that’s not really the question. The real question is not which Porsche, but which Porsche 911? It seems strange to think that the 911 hasn’t existed for as long as cars have, or at least as long as Porsche itself. […]
Porsche Will Likely Turbocharge Almost All Future 911s
Okay, y’all: let’s talk turbos. R&D Chief Wolfgang Hatz stepped out from the lab this past week to talk about how Porsche intends to meet increasingly stringent government fuel economy standards. His theme? Reality: “If you look at euro per g/km then it’s turbo. Then at the end of the decade electrification has to be […]
NYIAS: Porsche Answers Prayers, Grants Targa GTS To World
Last year saw the return of the 911 Targa, the perfect way to tell people that while you could have a convertible 911, you prefer a hardtop made out of glass. And while the retracting platform space opera of the Targa’s roof opening and closing is pretty cool, more than one person looked at all […]
Video: Seeing 911 Engines Built By Hand Is Too Awesome for Life
On the one hand, it’s like watching Darth Vader being built. On the other, it’s like zooming around a very cold, grey version of Pee-Wee’s playhouse where no one talks and certainly no one screams the word of the day. A new video showing how 911 engines are assembled in Zuffenhausen is exactly the type […]