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Newswheel staff :: 09 April 2008 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911
There’s always been a whiff of chest-wig chariot about turbo-charged Porsche 911s. After all, the venerable Porker is defined by its tactility and driving involvement and that doesn’t really jive with the binary power delivery of a blown flat six. But that’s been less true than ever in recent years as Porsche has dialled out the lag and made the turbo models more progressive than ever. So, can the latest 997-vintage GT2 compete with the magisterial 997 GT3 RS for pure driving thrills? Nope. Or at least not according to our chums on Evo magazine…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 August 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911
Impressive proof of the 911 GT2’s road-racing prowess? Or just Weissach waving its willy? Whatever, Porsche claims the new 997-vintage GT2 can bang in a lap of the Nurburgring in just 7 minutes and 32 seconds. That, allegedly, is over 20 seconds quicker than a Fezza F430…
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Newswheel staff :: 17 July 2007 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911
In a rather inevitable move following the recent leak of tech specs and images from an official brochure, Porsche has done the sensible thing and released details and images of the upcoming GT2 flagship variant of the 911 range. In typical GT2 fashion, Porsche has turned up the wick on the boost and ditched drive to the front wheels…
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Newswheel staff :: 04 May 2007 :: Filed under Porsche, Porsche 911
Tragic but utterly inevitable. The Annual Competition to Find the World’s Biggest Showoff,
otherwise known as the Gumball 3000 road rally, has taken the life of
an innocent bystander. Two British men driving a modified Porsche 911
were reportedly involved in an accident on Wednesday in Macedonia in
which a 67-year-old man was killed. The precise details of the
accident remain unclear. However, as for the “race” itself, in an act of
surprising sanity the organisers have called an early end to proceedings…
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Newswheel staff :: 27 March 2007 :: Filed under Porsche, Volkswagen
Porsche has upped its stake in German sister firm VW to 30.9 per cent, triggering a mandatory takeover bid. Porsche’s precise intentions, however, remain unclear. Under German law, the niche sports car maker is required to bid for the whole of VW if its stake goes beyond 30 per cent. But Porsche head honcho Wendelin Wiedeking has indicated it will offer only the minimum price demanded by the regulations…
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Newswheel staff :: 24 January 2007 :: Filed under Porsche, Porsche 911, Porsche Boxster, Porsche Cayman, Europe & UK, US
That Porsche is the world’s most profitable car company is not news. But can the German sports car outfit really be banking $28,000 (£14,000) with every car sold? That’s what the analysts at B&D Forecast reckon…
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Newswheel staff :: 06 December 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, Europe & UK
The Cayenne SUV. Not known for its beauty, perhaps, but still recognisably Porsche. Or at least it was until yesterday when the Stuttgart-based sports car specialist wheeled out this face-lifted model, four years after the original mud-plugging Porker hit the road…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 November 2006 :: Filed under Audi, Bugatti, Porsche, Volkswagen, Europe & UK, US
What to make of the Volkswagen Group’s current predicament? Well, it’s certainly interesting times, what with head honcho Bernd Pischetsrieder recently given the chop, a business model currently buckling under the strain of fratricidal brand proliferation and Porsche slowly but surely sinking in its claws. Indeed, it’s the latter that’s at the centre of the latest news concerning the future of the most elevated badge in the VW empire. Reportedly, Bugatti’s plans for a new entry level model have been torched by Porsche…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 November 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche Boxster, Europe & UK, US
Porsche, if you’ve somehow failed to notice, is in rude health. The latest symptom of the German sports car outfit’s magnificent malaise is the announcement that the 200,000th Boxster roadster has rolled off the production line. The company is currently knocking them out at a rate of around 27,000 a year, significantly up on the 15,000 unit volume Porsche had originally hoped for way back in 1996 when the Boxster was launched…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 November 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911, Europe & UK
Amazing what you can get away with by virtue of being a Porsche. Arbitrary alphanumeric model designations, dayglow orange paint, cheesy stickers down the side and an enormous plank-like rear wing are just a few of the features of the 911 GT3 RS that would be considered borderline criminal on any other car. But on the RS, it’s all part of the mystique. Whatever, Porsche HQ has knocked up a new promotional video of its most focused model undergoing a carefully orchestrated ragging around the Spa circuit in Belgium. Enjoy…
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Newswheel staff :: 11 October 2006 :: Filed under Porsche, Europe & UK, US
US rag Motor Trend has drawn together the various strands of thought on Porsche’s product plans to come up with a comprehensive list of what we can expect between now and 2010. Highlights include a reborn 928 coupe based on Panamera oily bits, a lightweight Cayman RS and a replacement for the Carrera GT…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 September 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Porsche, Porsche Panamera
Following last week’s initial Porsche Panamera test mule outing, more detailed images of the car have emerged. The new snaps confirm that the core architecture of the car caught testing appears very likely to be that of the final production vehicle…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 September 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Porsche, Porsche Panamera, Europe & UK, US
Three years ahead of its official 2009 launch date, the first full-body Porsche Panamera prototype has been caught testing. For now, there’s a solitary image orbiting the interweb, but it’s enough to confirm that the production Panamera won’t come close to the concept sketches released by Porsche in terms of sleekness. In fact, it’s a less aggressive shape with a more conservatively raked windscreen than existing four-door coupe designs such as M-B’s E-Class-based CLS…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 August 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche Cayman, Ruf, Europe & UK, US
Nice car, the Cayman coupe. But it’s not exactly a classic beauty. Nope, it suffers from a few too many fussy details and awkward styling cues to earn that accolade. But what if you could buff out the dodgy side air intake, clean up the front bumper, add a pair of elegant flying buttresses and delete the crappy rear-quarter window? Well, you’d have a winner and it would be called the Studio Torino RK Coupe…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, US
Porsche’s US sales division has opted not to bother with a 2007 model year update for the Cayenne SUV. Dealers will continue to sell the 2006 variant until the facelifted 2008 Cayenne arrives early next year. Of course, this probably says as much about the rather contrived model year system in the US as it does about flagging Cayenne sales…
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Simon Davies :: 12 August 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911, Ruf, Europe & UK, US
There’s no such thing as too much power. And there’s always space for
yet another infinitesimally differentiated high-performance riff on the
ever-green Porsche 911. Such is the philosophy of Porsche tuning
company Ruf. Give it up, therefore, for Ruf’s latest creation, the R
Kompressor…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2006 :: Filed under Porsche, Europe & UK, US
Long a rumour, now a fact. Patent documents filed in Germany indicate that Porsche is tooling up to bolt a seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual gearbox to just about ever car in its current range, from the entry-level Boxster to the upcoming Carrera GT-based GT1 hypercar…
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Newswheel staff :: 17 July 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Porsche, Porsche 911, Europe & UK, US
Following last month’s bout of undisguised spy shots, Porsche has officially taken the wraps off the 911 Targa. Apart from the glass roof, the big news is that the 997-vintage Targa will only be available in Targa 4 and Targa 4S four-wheel drive trim…
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Newswheel staff :: 12 July 2006 :: Filed under Porsche, Volkswagen, Europe & UK, US
Anti-trust / monopolies authorities in Germany have rubber stamped Porsche’s application to snag a further 3.9 per cent stake in its bigger German brother, VW. Currently, Porsche holds a 21.2 per cent interest in V-Dub. The additional shares will push it over the crucial 25 per cent barrier and represent an overall investment of around 3.5 billion euros. Crucial, that is, because it will give Porsche a theoretical blocking minority and should prevent VW from being bagged by a foreign competitor…
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Newswheel staff :: 04 July 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche Cayman, TechArt, Europe & UK, US
A classic 295bhp 3.4-litre flat-six ought to be enough for a £43k mid-engined sports car. But thanks to a seriously capable chassis, familiarity with the Cayman almost breeds contempt for that sort of power. It could easily cope with a lot more grunt. Verily, that’s exactly what tuning outfit TechArt has given it, courtesy of a big-bore engine conversion. And if you reckon the Cayman S’s low key road presence is rather retiring for your taste, point your peepers at the TechArt GTsport’s GT3-busting body kit…
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