Archives for 2009

Weekly Porsche Wrap

June 7, 2009 by

Porsche 911 hoods become art “canvas” – This is a pretty cool thing. 5 legendary NYC street artists are creating works of art on Porsche 911 hoods. Here’s the 5 artists: BLADE: The godfather of the scene, often called the “King of Graf”; JonOne: Whose work has evolved from ’70s train tagging to abstract painting; […]

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Tempting Porsche #16

June 6, 2009 by

I always seem to find something tempting at least once a week. Funny where you stumble on something that really starts getting your heart pumping thinking about the possibilities of throwing caution to the wind and giving in to temptation. Here are a couple of Tempting Porsches from today. Tempting Porsche #1 Today I was […]

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Ultimate Car List Top 5 – Pick #1

June 5, 2009 by

I was reading a post on PorschePurist.com a few weeks ago about Filling Your Dream Garage (read the post here) and it reminded me of a category I’ve been meaning to get going for a few months now called Ultimate Car List. My original plan was to identify cars as I wrote about them that […]

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Infiniti’s New Selling Tactic: Remove the Obstacles

June 4, 2009 by

Actually an Infiniti dealer in Denver, Colorado is giving new meaning to “remove the obstacles” in it’s sales process of new Infiniti cars. An employee claims he was asked by his boss to steal a customer’s Porsche Cayman. Say what?! The plan was actually pretty simple. The Porsche Cayman, whose owner was sick of making […]

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Silly Porsche Enthusiast – Boxsters are for Chix

June 3, 2009 by

Mitchell, one of our PorschePerfect.com readers, sent me this email along with the title I used for the post (took me a few times reading it before I realized the spoof). I’ve posted on here before about how I’m not a big fan of the Boxster – not that its a bad car or horrible […]

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Restored 1963 Porsche with Sentimental Value – Destroyed in Seconds

June 3, 2009 by

This was a pretty sad story, on a number of fronts. Yet it draws a valuable conclusion that makes you stop and think about the stuff we collect and hold dear. Here’s a snippet from the story: It was June 14, 2000, — the hottest day of the year in Lodi. The mercury had climbed […]

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Old 911 Collection Pictures

June 2, 2009 by

About 2 weeks ago I posted about an old 911 collection a guy named John Small has accumulated in a small town in Wyoming. The collection is housed in an old Ford Dealership and includes just over 50 “complete” cars at various stages of restoration. Here’s a link to the post in case you missed […]

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Porsche Giveaway Home Stretch

June 1, 2009 by

We are on the home stretch for the Porsche Giveaway we’re doing here for the blog. This has got to be one of the easiest ways to get yourself into one heck of a cool car. No tickets to buy. No sales presentations to sit through. No products to buy you don’t want or need. […]

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Porsche GT3 RSR Video

June 1, 2009 by

This is an extra long version of the Manthey Porsche 911 GT3 RSR that wont he Nurburgring 24. It was driven by Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, Marc Lieb and Marcel Tiemann. This is a great video from multiple perspectives: track side cameras, aerial and driver’s perspective (which is my favorite).

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Weekly Porsche Wrap

May 31, 2009 by

Qatar still interested in a stake in Porsche – It’s been a couple of months since news of this hit the streets and it looks like the Emir of Qatar is still a potential investor. Porsche needs something, from somebody, and relatively quickly. [Via Reuters.com] Need For Speed SHIFT will include greats like the Porsche […]

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