e-Brake News: Video: Los Angeles Region shows us what concours is all about

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October 11, 2016
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PCA—If you've ever wondered what a concours d'elegance is, wonder no more thanks to a mini documentary covering the Los Angeles Region Concours d'Elegance in July. The event took place at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying, pitting pristine concours-prepped Porsches against each other with historic planes as the backdrop.
 
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PCA—​​​​​​​It's that time of year again: The Fall 2016 Member Only Raffle has begun, with a new Porsche 718 Cayman S (plus $25,000 cash) as the grand prize. Purchase tickets today to enter—more tickets equals more grand prizes.
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​​​​​​​PCA—​​​​​​​Porsche Cars North America and PCA are thrilled for you to join us at the 2016 LA Auto Show on Friday, November 18 for an exclusive Porsche Club Preview event before the show opens to the public, where Porsche will give you access to the Porsche display, the full array of Porsche models, and a special global unveiling. Registration opened today at 3 PM EST. Spots will sell out quickly!
 
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MotorAuthority—​​​​​​​Priceless is a word thrown around a lot these days when describing classic cars, but for this 1951 Porsche 356 SL Gmünd Coupe there really isn’t a more appropriate descriptor.
 
PCA—Tech Tactics West will be available on two days this year, November 19th and 20th. Each day is dedicated to Porsche technical information hosted by PCA National and Porsche Cars North America at its West Coast training facility in Ontario, CA. Learn first hand about the all new technology in the Panamera and much more!
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Rennlist—Every year, the National Auto Dealer’s Association (NADA) releases a report outlining the cars to perform best in their “Three Year Value Retention” test.
Porsche has absolutely dominated the “Luxury Sports Car” category, taking the top three positions by a pretty wide margin. Back in 2013, if you’d purchased a new Porsche sports car, it’s value has held up better than any other sports car in the segment.
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The Smoking Tire via YouTube—The Porsche 718 Cayman and Cayman S, like the 718 Boxsters before them, are now powered exclusively by turbocharged four-cylinder engines. And while yes, these engines sound like Subaru engines at low RPM, they make a lot more power and torque than the outgoing engines, and offer endless possibility for cheap tuning. Porsche NA representative Frank Weismann joins Matt on this drive in Austin to talk about the new Cayman S.
 
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MultiBriefs—Last summer, I traded my 2009 Midnight Blue Cayman for a 2016 Macan S, with the self-imposed understanding that I would someday end up in another Cayman — perhaps a GTS or even the GT4. I'm not so sure I could have ultimately pulled the trigger on the Macan otherwise.
 
Road Scholars—“I don’t want to drive for eight hours on the freeway,” said a fellow 356er when I suggested driving our tubs to the 356 Registry East Coast Holiday in Akron, Ohio.
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PCA Web Store—In 2016, PCA Club Racing marked it’s 25-year anniversary as well as the debut of the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport Trophy East series. Reserve your piece of PCA history by pre-ordering this limited-edition Minichamps 1/43 scale model inspired by the track-only Cayman GT4 Clubsport, priced at $59.95 USD plus shipping. Pre-order before October 7, 2016. Only 250 will  be produced. Models will be shipped in December in time for holiday gifting.
 
 
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The Drive—Car-loving teenagers can waste years wandering used-car listings knowing full well the only way they can afford their dream car is to rob a Kardashian and fence the jewelry.

 
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Car and Driver—The Porsche 911 celebrated its big Five-Oh a couple of years back, and not only is it still going strong, but it even resembles the original (unlike the equally successful and even older Chevrolet Corvette). As you’d expect, the 911 has profited from countless upgrades scattered over roughly seven generations. The new-for-2017 mid-cycle refresh applies to the 991 generation introduced in 2012 and is referred to as 991.2 in Porsche circles.
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Maxoge via YouTube—One of my very first laps at the ‘Ring with the Carrera GT. Quite a lot of traffic in the first part of the track, but it cleared up around Fuchsröhre. This is not about lap times, more about enjoying this amazing car in the most beautiful track of the world!
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Motor1—Porsche North America has issued a pretty interesting recall. The German manufacturer along with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have announced certain one-liter containers of Porsche-brand brake fluid, as well as 30-liter containers of the same fluid, have a misleading information on their stickers.
 
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Top Gear—So it’s the basic Porsche Cayman?

Yes. The new Porsche 718 Cayman has a price that begins with a three (just) before options. But, now that Porsche’s bread and butter cars are all turbocharged, it still has nearly 300bhp and is good for a 171mph top speed.
 
Petrolicious—When Tenn Xoomsai Na Ayudhya went to renovate his house in central Bangkok, he did exactly what we’ve all dreamt of doing: he brought the garage indoors. I had the pleasure of tearing around Thailand for a few days with him in his batmobile RWB, sadly I never got to see this place in person as it was heavily under construction. Clearly we kept in touch, and just this week he dropped a handsome folder of shots in his newly-finished home.
 
Top Gear—Two days, hundreds of laps, many sets of tires and one pair of lederhosen: it’s TG’s annual festival of fast.

Take it away, Chris…
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Car and Driver—Those eagerly waiting to see the hybrid drivetrain technology from Porsche’s astounding limited-edition 918 hypercar trickle down into the standard 911 are going to have to wait for a while. It’s highly unlikely that Porsche will put battery-boosted hybrid power into its classic 911 sports car until sometime in its next generation.
 
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Car and Driver—Porsche has no confirmed model program to develop a second battery-electric vehicle after the Mission E project launches as its anti-Tesla sedan in late 2019. The smart money is betting on an SUV or a crossover arriving within a year of the four-door, 310-mile-range Mission E that was previewed with a concept (photo above) at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show.
 
Automobile—As the car sweeps around the last corner and onto the pit straight, the blaze of its headlights in the Texas night makes us squint, even though we’re a half mile away. And as it guns past the grandstand here at the Circuit of the Americas, the Porsche 919 Hybrid is squeezing every erg of energy out of its mechanical soul and converting it into forward motion.
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Car News China—The Zotye SR9 Porsche Macan clone has been officially launched in China, pricing will be announced tomorrow and deliveries will start next month. The Zotye SR9, formerly known as the Zotye SR8, is a near perfect ripoff, only details such as he grille and lights differ from the Macan.
 
Wired—Kef isn’t as well-known as Apple or Bang & Olufsen, but the British audio company has a similar reputation: It makes design-minded products that look just as good as they perform.
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GTspirit—Our car of the day for today is an absolute blast from the past: the Porsche 993 GT2. The German legend from the 90’s was the real deal back in the day and still is we must acknowledge, just last month another original 993 GT2 sold for a record $2.4 million.
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The Sun—A canny supercar owner has flogged his brand-new Porsche for three-times the price he paid for it in July.

A bidder bought the rare 911 R model for a staggering £436,404 – just three months after Porsche sold it to the original owner for £140,000.
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Fstoppers—Cars are beautiful pieces of machinery, some more so than others. Photographer Philipp Rupprecht came across a chance to shoot a Porsche 918 Spyder as soon as it was delivered, which almost took a year to begin. 
 
Car and Driver—So, will Porsche’s latest Panamera sedan spawn a coupe or—gasp!—a convertible? “We have no shortage of coupes and convertibles in our lineup,” our source at Porsche in Zuffenhausen says, hinting that such variants don’t have much traction internally. It’s still tempting to imagine Porsche using its new front-engine/rear-wheel-drive platform for something even sportier than the Panamera, so we asked our illustrator to whip up some renderings.
 
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Porsche of the Week
Photo by Martyn Greensmith. Lone Star Region. “I thought this might be a little different — a picture of my Cayenne in Monument Valley, Arizona, after a little off-roading. We are members of the Lone Star Region and did a road trip to the Grand Canyon, Arches, and Canyonlands National Parks.”

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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