Now that’s how you make a movie. Porsche made a video of driver Patrick Long taking the 918 Spyder through a lap or two at the Circuit of the Americas, and it’s a masterwork of visceral, first-person helmetcam and uber-fluid steady shots reminiscent of David Fincher. The blend of HD shots as if you’re the […]
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Wrecked GT3 Owner Shows How Not to Drive
And now we’ll have a lesson on how not to drive your Porsche. The passenger-filmer of the video is Bill Caswell, a writer for Wired and Jalopnik, and the driver is Robb Holland, a professional racer. They are driving at the famous Nürburgring circuit in Germany in what appears to be a Ford. Ahead of […]
Porsche Air-Cooled Engines: We Need to Go Deeper
Owning an air-cooled Porsche is the dream of many Porsche fans. At this point in history, ownership is not an impossibility, and certainly will remain feasible for several more decades. The cost of ownership, however, is not-so-slowly creeping upward. (more…)
Watch 50 Launch Mode Starts on the Turbo S
Wow. Road & Track just put up a video of the Porsche 911 Turbo S’s launch control in action, and it’s pretty ridiculous. The idea is this: launch control is not a new technology, nor is it even exclusive to Porsche. The explosive start is a complex computer operation that depends on the driver to […]
This 918 Spyder Video Is Michael Bay-Worthy
In case you had anything else to do for the next 13 minutes, you can stop and put it away. Automobile Magazine’s Ignition web series has something quite special for their 100th episode: a Spanish track run of the Porsche 918 Spyder. Prefaced by an intro worthy of Michael Bay, this is essentially what Porsche […]