e-Brake News: PCA National Office Open House registration opens next Tuesday

Published: Tue, 07/05/16

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July 5, 2016
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PCA—Join fellow members and Porsche Club of America's National Office Staff at our annual open house event on September 17 from 10 AM –2 PM. Registration opens Tuesday, July 12.
 
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PCA—“Is that really a Porsche bike?” asked a young, spandex-wearing cyclist.

“Why, yes it is,” I replied.

Yes, Porsche has a bicycle. In fact, it has an entire history of bicycles, of which we’ve begun to scratch the surface on PCA.org. They’re not mere toys, but serious efforts constructed of lightweight aluminum or carbon fiber. I wanted to ride in a 54-mile bike race, and I wanted to be the first person to do it on a Porsche.
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PCA—Since last week, a flood of 911R road tests have hit the web, and rather than feeding them to you piecemeal via PCA's weekly email newsletter e-Brake News or our social media channels, find out how the 911R drives from several sources all in one place. We've decided to compile all known road tests of Porsche's latest — and arguably greatest — enthusiast-oriented 911 right here. We'll update this article with more road tests as they become available.
 
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Autos.ca—They’re both yellow, RWD, have engines nestled between the seats and the rear wheels, come in at around $100,000 and exist purely for your driving pleasure. That, however, is where the similarities end.
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PCA—Werks Reunion, the premier Porsche event during “Monterey Car Week,” is back on August 19. The concours and car show at Rancho Cañada Golf Club is free to spectators and will have a field of up to 1,000 Porsches, with 924/944/968 and 928 as the featured model ranges.
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Rennlist—Silverstone Auctions estimates this survivor race car will fetch between £475,000 and £575,000 when it hits the block on July 28th. That’s big money, but this car will likely attract big interest. So what makes it so potentially valuable? For starters, it's one of only 17 924 GTRs that Porsche built to compete at Le Mans in the Group 4 class.
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Road & Track—As long as the Panamera has existed, there have been constant rumors of Porsche building a coupe version as a successor to the classic 928. Obviously, that didn't quite happen, but there's a version of the Panamera that was as close to a modern 928 as you can get.
 
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PCA—Porsche Club of America's newest event, Treffen North America starts this September with Treffen Lake Tahoe, Sept. 7-11. Click here to visit the Treffen Lake Tahoe activities page, then book your spot and activities.
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Stand 21—Porsche Club of America is excited to announce a partnership with Stand 21 North America on a PCA Club Racing 25th Anniversary Racewear Collection. Stand 21 will design and produce a special one-time-only collection offered exclusively to PCA members. This anniversary collaboration will include specially designed gloves, boots and bags with the PCA Racing 25th Anniversary logo.
 
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The Verge—Porsche unveiled the new Panamera today. That's cool, but like many product unveilings across many industries, the introduction was preceded by an on-stage hypefest that was only loosely connected with reality.
 
Green Car Reports—Owners of VW and Audi 2.0-liter TDI diesel cars finally got some good news this week when the terms of a proposed final settlement between VW and the EPA were announced.
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Road & Track—Was I supposed to take this picture? I'm not sure to be honest. Our phones were taken away in the body shop section of Porsche's Leipzig factory, but given back at their cutting-edge quality lab. And there she was, a prototype of the long-wheelbase Panamera, accidentally I guess. But short or long, what's under that body is way more exciting. (Ed.: The picture above is not the one mentioned in the first sentence, but a look at Porsche's MSB platform as it will be used in the new Panamera. Bentley will also benefit from the Porsche-developed MSB platform. Click the link below to see the picture in question.)
 
Car and Driver—Porsche wasn’t the first to apply turbocharging to production gasoline engines. GM had done it a decade before with both the Chevy Corvair and the Oldsmobile Jetfire. Which, in fact, means the 930 was actually the second production turbocharged flat-six. But while GM quickly abandoned the idea and didn’t return to it until the 1980s, once Porsche adopted turbochargers, it never let go.
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Carfection via YouTube—The new 911 Turbo S is a very, very fast car. Its predecessor was a monster, but the 991.2 911 Turbo S takes it one step further...
 
Autocar via YouTube—This is very simple: we have three great sports cars from three great car-making countries. And we want to know which is fastest in a quarter-mile drag race.
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CarScoops—At first glance, the footage appears to depict a race, between a Porsche Cayenne and a speedboat, that turns out horribly wrong – the kind of dash we’re used to seeing from three particular middle-aged men.
 
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Porsche via YouTube—​​​​​​​Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience the Hillclimb at Goodwood Festival of Speed? Porsche gave Zac Stephens just this chance after he won our social media competition. Join him on-board the extraordinary Porsche 918 Spyder, as he enjoys an experience like nothing else.
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Car and Driver—​​​​​​​Despite our best efforts, the clutch, that fantastic frictional fuse between engine and transmission that has served us so long, has a dim future. With the manual gearbox criti­cally endangered and an industry-wide focus on efficiency, the smartest minds in engineering are now hellbent on excising energy-sapping friction discs, even those in dual-clutch automatics.
 
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ClassicCars.com—“A thrilling spectrum of important Porsches” is how Gooding & Company describes the top-drawer Porsche competition cars, including one driven at Le Mans by Hollywood legend Paul Newman, and rare sports cars to be offered at Gooding’s Pebble Beach Auction in August.
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Porsche—​​​​​​​Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche 911, Boxster, and Cayman sports cars, Macan and Cayenne SUVs, and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, announced June 2016 sales of 4,482 vehicles today, which represents an increase of 6.9 percent compared to June 2015.
 
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Engineering Explained via YouTube—Don’t put the transmission in neutral when you come to a stop. There’s no need to do this. You may think the clutch will be partially engaged and wearing out, but the system will be sure to disengage the clutch (while keeping first gear pre-selected).
 
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Motor1—The second generation Porsche Panamera debuted late last month and the German company is now launching its official American online configurator.
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PCA—Described as a museum springing to life, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is the largest event held during the famed Monterey Classic Car Week, and is the only event where cars are doing what they were originally intended to do…race. Approximately 550 race cars are invited to compete in the world’s premier motoring event, and are accepted based on the car’s authenticity, race provenance and period correctness. Car corral tickets are sold out, but bring your Porsche key and/or member card for access to hospitality tent.
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PCA—Want to get published in PCA.org and e-Brake News and be part of the new, volunteer-fueled PCA Media Gruppe? Send us your original PCA or Porsche-related content and we'll consider it for publication. Contact Editor Damon Lowney at damonl@pca.org with submissions and story ideas, and he will help with writing and editing as needed.
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Porsche of the Week
Photo by Chris Stocker. Loma Prieta Region. “This photo was taken in the driveway entrance of a winery in Morgan Hill, CA. It is of my 1988 911 Carrera Commemorative Edition.”

Got a stunning shot you want to share? Submit your pictures to potw@pca.org. Be sure to include your contact information, your region name, and a few sentences about your picture.
 
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