Uwe Gemballa kidnapped? – German police are fearing the worst for Gemballa’s founder, Uwe Gemballa. He went missing last week while in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was supposed to be there for 3 days to discuss expanding Gemballa into the country. A German car site, GTspirit.com, reported Uwe phoned his wife shortly after arriving in […]
Porsche Driver Training Options
February 19, 2010 by
Everyone wants to be a better driver. Actually, every Porsche enthusiast wants to be a better driver. That’s probably more accurate. I think it comes with the territory when you love Porsche cars. Largely because driver training often comes with the opportunity to go fast in a controlled environment (or at least that’s how it […]
New Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid
February 12, 2010 by
Most of you know that I’m really not much of a racing fan. Not that I don’t like racing, it’s just that I don’t know enough to truly appreciate the sport. I do show flahes of racing love every now and then though. And this happens to be one of those times. This is one […]
Porsche Fan’s Starter Car & Baby Porsche Boxster
February 11, 2010 by
I had a couple of things that didn’t make the Sunday post, but found them too interesting to pass up. VW GTI is Porsche Fan’s starter car – I found this pretty interesting and the logic somewhat believable. Brian Scotto, editorial director of 0-60 Magazine says, “The GTI has a direct bloodline to Audis and […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
February 7, 2010 by
You are what you drive – Bloomberg.com had an interesting article written by an auto journalist about the vibe your car gives off and what it says about you to the people around you. He covers everything from Hummers to Porsches and Bentleys to Toyotas. He even had an interesting experience in a Smart car […]
TECHART GT Street RS Rocks The Track
January 19, 2010 by
I got an email this morning from TECHART about some very cool records they just set in their Porsche 911 GT2 based GT Street RS. This car is one sweet looking ride that really looks like it belongs more on the track than on the street. Course isn’t that part of the whole point of […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
January 17, 2010 by
Porsche Design Studio sales are UP – In a time when we’re in some of the worst financial shape our country, and potentially our world, has ever seen, we have these interesting anomalies. They’re reporting that sales are up by more than 170% over the past two years. Interestingly, this was reported BEFORE the holiday […]
Historic Porsche or Marketing Fake?
January 6, 2010 by
I passed on mentioning this car last week because I had determined in my mind that this was a fake. After taking another look, I’m not 100% sure, although I’m still leaning towards that end. I thought I’d throw it out here to see what everyone thought. This particular car is a prototype designed and […]
TECHART Sets New Speed Record For Fullsize-SUVs
December 24, 2009 by
This hit my inbox last week, but I’ve been buried. Sorry for being late to the game on this one. It’s just too good not to post though. It seems TECHART got a driver, Sandro Reuter, to man up and test the upper speed limits of their TECHART customized Porsche Cayenne Turbo. How fast you […]
Weekly Porsche Wrap
December 20, 2009 by
Porsche museum welcomes 500,000th visitor with a little something special – Not only is one of the coolest museums in the world awaiting you, how about being the 500,000th visitor to walk through the door and getting the keys to a Porsche Panamera for the weekend! The new museum has only been open for 11 […]
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