e-Brake News: Video: It's not just the cars, it's the people

Published: Tue, 09/13/16

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September 13, 2016
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PCA—What started out way back in 1955 as “the gripe group” at a local steakhouse in Washington, D.C. has grown in ways Porsche Club of America (PCA) founder Bill Sholar could have only imagined. On this day 61 years ago, as 12 Porsche owners gathered for dinner and discussion, they laid the plans that would pave the way for future success.
 
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​​​​​​​PCA—The old hybrid Panamera was an impressive melding of luxury and performance in a sedan package, yet the recently announced Panamera 4 E-Hybrid takes those attributes to higher levels while giving passersby something better to look at.
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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. New to Tech Tactics West this year is Rod Emory of Emory Motorsports. Registration opens on MotorsportReg.com on October 1.
 
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PCA—Join us at the Porscheplatz at the Lone Star Le Mans! Bring your member card or Porsche key for access to hospitality.

WeatherTech United SportsCar Championship at the Circuit of the Americas, Austin Texas on September 15-17, 2016.
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FlightSquad Media via YouTube—Watch video of Upper Canada Region members and their cars at the Region's 40th Anniversary Picnic.
 
Rennlist—The newest fad in wrapping cars is making a vehicle look like it’s been through serious stuff and survived. Some look like The Walking Dead‘s Rick after a gang of walkers tried and sadly failed to kill Carl, some look like they’ve been left to rot in an old barn, and some look like they tried to drive in an Atlanta twin-inch snow storm. Rust, dirt, and faux-crushed metal are the new fake bullet holes. But some of them still look pretty cool.
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Porsche Design—Porsche Design has released a custom limited-edition chronograph paying homage to ANDIAL, a name synonymous with Porsche performance and owned by Porsche Motorsport North America, in celebration of the new ANDIAL 5, a limited series of five modified Porsche 911 GT3 Cup racecars.
 
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Look for Treffen Lake Tahoe video on PCA.org this week!
PCA—Treffen Lake Tahoe took place last week and over 300 members and 220 Porsches traveled to enjoy it, the first of PCA's new biannual event, Treffen North America. Look for a video on PCA.org this week about the event, as members drive, dine, and explore the best areas in the Lake Tahoe area.
 
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PCA—Texas attorney Pat Heptig just can't get enough of Porsche.

Heptig loves the iconic German automobile so much that he plays a dual role in the Porsche Club of America (PCA) as a driver and scrutineer.
 
Chris Harris on Cars via Top Gear—In this installment of Chris Harris Drives, our man takes to the road - and track - in the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S and Porsche 911 R.

Both are manuals. And both, as you’ll soon discover, do sideways. Take it away, Chris…
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Car and Driver—​​​​​​​Sitting atop the hard-core branch of the sprawling Porsche 911 hierarchy, the $178,250 GT3 RS seemed a great candidate for some testing of its track-day mettle. So we spent three consecutive days pushing it to its limits—and sometimes slightly beyond—at our tenth Lightning Lap competition at Virginia International Raceway (VIR), before hopping back into its carbon-fiber bucket seat for the 700-mile trek back to our Ann Arbor, Michigan, office.
 
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Auto Express via YouTube—Always the most sporting of premium sports saloons, the all-new Porsche Panamera builds on its traditional core appeal but adds greater comfort, luxury and equipment into the offering. The Panamera is quantifiably better in almost every way – that it looks so much sharper only adds to its appeal.
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Autoblog—The Porsche Panamera didn't need much improving. Okay, the humpback design was short of pretty, and people really liked complaining about the Spine of Many Buttons down the center console. But once you sat down in one (and could no longer see the shape) then set the chassis how you wanted it, the nitpicking stopped. Now back for round two, the Panamera has been visited with improvement in almost every area.
 
Car and Driver—Of the few criticisms leveled at the 2010–2016 Porsche Panamera, the only one with any substance was a disdain for its baggy butt. The original four-door Porsche hatchback charged hard, scythed through curves, and swallowed highway miles whole—all while appearing to wear a loaded diaper. 
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PCA—For those of you attending the Formula 1 US Grand Prix in Austin this year, Hill Country Region (HCR) of PCA has an exclusive opportunity for you to dine at the Valhalla of Texas and U.S. BBQ...Franklin Barbecue!
 
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PCA—Registration is closed. Bring your appetite for a catered barbecue lunch courtesy Hollywood Wheels Auctions & Shows and get a tour of the National Office led by PCA Executive Director Vu Nguyen. Talk cars and admire various member-owned Porsches as we take over the office parking lot and culdesac, peruse several vendor and Porsche dealer booths, participate in the PCA Swap and Sell, and, of course, be sure to stay to the end for the chance to win one of several door prizes offered by Michelin Tires, Bose, Fanatec, Cocomats.com, Griot's Garage, Porsche Cars North America, and much more.
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The event is rain or shine — Ceramic Pro is sponsoring a 30' x 60' tent.

Theme: Celebrating 25 Years of PCA Club Racing: Any Porsches with racing livery will have VIP parking, space permitting! Please email us at admin@pca.org if you plan to bring a Porsche with racing livery.
 
Jalopnik—Just because something’s not morally sound doesn’t mean that you can’t objectively enjoy it. Just ask Hannibal Lecter. Sure, he was a psychopath with a penchant for the finer things in life; things like illegally poached Beluga Caviar, authentic Paté du Foie Gras and well conditioned human livers. But at least he knew why he was going to hell, and he had fun along the way. And that’s what the all-new 2017 Porsche Panamera is all about.
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Photo by Sean Cridland 
Road Scholars—Of all the events on the exhausting schedule of Monterey Car Week, the Porsche Club of America’s Werks Reunion at Rancho Cañada Golf Club is unfettered, unadulterated, unlimited Porsche, Porsche, Porsche.
 
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The Car Guide—The Porsche Cayenne’s success is undeniable, and even the brand’s purists have adopted it. In order to gain a bigger market share of the SUV segment and to follow the downsizing trend, Porsche presented the Macan, smaller than the Cayenne. As usual for a Porsche, this little SUV is offered in three variations: the S, the Turbo as well as the GTS for performance enthusiasts.
 
AutoGuide.com—Porsche purists, avert your eyes, for this is the antithesis of everything you know and love.

It’s the 2017 Porsche Macan, and it’s bringing your beloved brand to the masses with a new base model that is, at least by Porsche standards, alarmingly affordable.
 
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StanceWorks—From time to time, our friend Kris Clewell pops in, offering a new piece, opinion, or sometimes, just a glimpse of the latest through his lens. As one of the community's opinionated "free thinkers," his voice is always welcomed, if not always seen eye-to-eye.
 
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Jalopnik—(Ed.: Head over to Jalopnik to view a hi-res version of the photo.)
 
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Robb Report—With a sonic signature as distinct as its namesake car, the Porsche Design 911 Soundbar delivers a powerful performance with a subwoofer made from the rear muffler and tailpipes of an actual Porsche 911 GT3.
 
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Bloomberg—Porsche plans to introduce its first station wagon, further stretching the brand’s portfolio beyond the iconic 911 sports car into a more utilitarian segment, according to people familiar with the strategy.
 
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MultiBriefs—Well, not quite. But in case you haven't heard, Porsche has decided to bring its first, inline four-cylinder model since the 968 to the United States. And guess what? I have one in my driveway! A new 2017 Porsche Macan 2.0 Turbo.
 
The Drive—Tim Gregorio yells at me to shift a moment after the needle sweeps past 7,000 rpm. Gregorio is Singer Vehicle Design’s man in charge of client relations; I trust his judgment. And even though my size-14s take up 97 percent of the pedal box, I click off the best 2-3 shift of my life.
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Oversteer via Autotrader—These days, high-performance station wagons have become sort of commonplace -- a way for automakers to reach out to enthusiasts and tell them, "Yes. We understand your plight." In recent years, for example, there's been the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon. The Mercedes E55 and E63 AMG wagons. The Subaru WRX wagon. Various Audi S and RS wagons. (Ed.: The Audi RS2 was built by Porsche in its Zuffenhausen factory. Read on...)
 
Popular Mechanics—Who you got: Plane or car? German motoring TV show "Grip" has filmed the ultimate speed test pairing an ultra high performance stunt plane against the super-fast Porsche 918 Spyder. (Ed.: Video is in German, but still worth a watch)
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The Independent—Time passes and things change. Here we are dealing with a rip-snorting big naturally aspirated engine in a four-wheel drive chassis of some brilliance. And up against it is a car with a relatively weedy 3.4-litre engine. At least the 911 Turbo gets a flat-six unlike lesser versions with the flat-four with the anodyne soundtrack.
 
Carscoops—A 1995 Porsche 911 GT2 in Riviera Blue has sold for an extraordinary £1.84 million ($2.44 million) at RM Sotheby's recent auction in London.
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 Car and Driver—All-wheel drive can cover for a lot of driver ineptitude. Carry too much speed into a corner, stand on the gas anyway, and you can squirt out the other side none the wiser. Do that in a rear-drive car and you’ll be hangin’ it out like Jason Bourne eluding the CIA yet again, or worse, stuffing it into a curb, as hundreds of Cars and Coffee wipeout videos on YouTube prove.
 
Jalopnik—I love crazy engine swaps, even if they turn a car from daily-drive-able to totally useless. Here’s a Porsche Cayman—a car normally fitted with a mid-mounted, low-slung flat-six— but with a big 5.0-liter Coyote V8 swapped in. It may sound like blasphemy, but just watch how much power this thing makes on the dyno.
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AutoGuide.com—The FIA World Endurance Championship is heading to Austin, Texas, on September 17 for the sixth round in this year’s race, and Porsche is looking strong as it heads into the event at the Circuit of the Americas.
 
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 Kesse Ho. Grand Prix Region. "I joined the Porsche Club of America, GPX Region, at the end of 2015 and immediately signed up for my very first tour sponsored by the club. The tour, GPX Tour of the Ft. Irwin Nat'l Training Center — January 16, 2016 — was so popular that I was wait-listed. Luckily, the Army allowed the wait-listed people to join the tour. I was thrilled.

"We were supposed to meet at 9 AM at the famous 'Painted Rock,' a few miles from the training center along the route. It is only about 2.5 hours away from my house; but I decided to leave the house at 5 AM so as not to take any chances with my first longer Porsche trip. Even with a quick breakfast stop along the way, I arrived at the 'Painted Rock' nearly an hour early. The blue sky in the desert and the moving white clouds towards me was so beautiful that I took a few photos at different angles. This was one of them."

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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