Porsche slices exhibit at Porsche Museum – Below is a sampling of one of the pics from the layout shown on Notcot.com. It’s an exhibit showing slices of a Porsche 911 to illustrate the various stages of the design process. Pretty cool exhibit and the pictures are worth taking a look at. Porsche recalls ALL […]
900 Porsche 918 “Buyers” & Made By Hand Videos
April 28, 2010 by
Here’s a couple of things I came across today worth mentioning. First is a Bloomberg post claiming that Porsche has 900 potential buyers for the Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid. “I’m confident that we will soon reach the threshold of 1,000,” was the comment Wolfgang Duerheimer (Porsche’s development chief) mentioned in an interview at the Beijing […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
April 25, 2010 by
Porsche testing a production version of the 911 GT3 R Hybrid? – Spy photographers have captured pictures of what is believed to be a production version of the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid street ready car. They’re claiming the body work is very similar to the race version of the GT3 R Hybrid. It only […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
April 18, 2010 by
Porsche GT3 R Hybrid takes 3rd in only it’s second race – This time it was the Nurburgring Long Distance Championship. The drivers Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler reported the car ran like a dream. Here’s the really cool part…they said they shaved off one pit stop due to the hybrid drivetrain. They saved fuel […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
April 13, 2010 by
Plymouth ahead of Porsche’s time – I ran across this 1998 Plymouth Pronto Spyder concept car on a USA Today post last week and found the similarities to a Porsche-style car very interesting. The Pronto Spyder was revealed at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show and Chrysler seemed pretty set on putting it into production at […]
“The Allure of the Automobile” Exhibition
April 7, 2010 by
I posted about this event a while back, but was sent the above video with some footage of the cars on display and thought it’d be worth sharing again. It looks like there are quite a few great cars at the event, but the two most noteworthy ones are the 1938/39 Porsche Type 64 and […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
April 4, 2010 by
Porsche GT3 R Hybrid finishes in 6th place – Not too shabby given that this was pitched as primarily a live test opportunity rather than a serious entry into the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. The 6th place finish was in a 4 hour qualifying event at Nürburgring. I don’t know why, because I really am […]
PCA Members Can Race Against Legendary Hurley Haywood
March 30, 2010 by
I just got an announcement this morning that if you’re a PCA member, you can snag a spot to race against Hurley Haywood. No you won’t be on the real track, but you’ll have the next best thing. You can race him online tomorrow, March 31st, during a special event the PCA is putting on. […]
Porsche U.S. Sales Celebrates the BIG 6-0
March 29, 2010 by
This isn’t exactly breaking news given that we’re already 3 months into 2010, but I thought this press release from Porsche had some cool little historical tidbits in it. I love the conversation between Max Hoffman and Ferry Porsche below. Spoken like a true salesman! The love affair between Porsche and U.S. motoring enthusiasts began […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
March 28, 2010 by
Bust an eardrum with the Burmester audio package in the Porsche Cayenne – I’m not sure if this is a completely new option, but being a guy who loves to crank the tunes in the car, I had to mention it. It looks like the latest iteration of the Burmester sound system will appear as […]
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