e-Brake News: Video: Fall 2016 Member Only Raffle Winner: Renato Sinitean: Metropolitan New York Region

Published: Tue, 02/07/17

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February 7, 2017
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PCA—Last week we surprised one of three Member Only Raffle winners and brought our cameras. Watch Renato as he learns that he won a brand-new Porsche 718 Cayman S.
 
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The Smoking Tire via YouTube—Although rear and mid-engined Porsche's are all the rage these days, quietly in the background, really good Porsche 944's have been climbing in price. This delightfully fresh 1987 Porsche 944 Turbo has been lovingly modified by its owner with a Hybrid KKK Turbo setup, coilover suspension, and bigger swaybars, and it's an absolute joy to drive. 
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PCA—We have more than 500 Porsches registered for Werks Reunion Amelia Island — surpassing registrations for the first Werks Monterey in 2014. If you plan to display your Porsche, head over to WerksReunion.com to register. If you register by February 16 at 12 PM EST, you will be entered to win a set of Pirelli street tires. All attendees who register before the event will be entered into a raffle of more tires as well as a VIP trip to the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.
 
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Car and Driver—Porsche has perfected the art of scheduling the launch of new variants of its 911 range to keep something fresh and new in the lineup throughout a model generation. Case in point: This 2017 911 GTS model of the platform launched in its initial 991 form at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show and then updated to 991.2 specs in 2015.
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PCA—Tech Tactics East will be held at the Porsche Cars North America training facility in Easton, PA on Saturday, February 18, and Sunday, February 19, 2017. Registration is open at the following links. Saturday is sold out, but there is a waitlist. Get tickets for Sunday before they sell out too!
 
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Oversteer via Autotrader—I went in thinking I would prefer the Porsche. I generally like Porsches, because they're subtle, and understated, and they don't like to be the center of attention, just like me. I wear old t-shirts. Porsches are for people who wear old t-shirts. Ferraris are for people who wear form-fitting silk shirts with dragons on them.
 
PCA—Mark Treffen Hill Country on your calendars (March 29 – April 2) as a must-attend event in central Texas this spring.

Dine, drive, and explore the beautiful hills west of Austin with fellow PCA members, guided by the local Region.

Registration is open.
Register​​
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Drivetribe via YouTube—How do you improve the Porsche Cayman GT4? Sharkwerks thinks it has the answer, with shortened gear ratios, a lighter flywheel, and more power.
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MultiBriefs—A few weeks ago, I was bantering with my cab driver (no Uber here) about cars and Porsches and my somewhat nostalgia-driven 944 habit, when he asked me what car I would recommend he get for his teenaged child.
 
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Jalopnik—Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement for owners of about 80,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche 3.0-liter V6 diesel vehicles that cheated on emissions tests. Here’s everything you need to know about that settlement.
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Jalopnik—After people stripped down their 2.0-liter Volkswagen diesels before turning them in for the buyback, the court decided to add a ton of verbiage in the new 3.0-liter Volkswagen settlement to forbid such tomfoolery. Here’s everything it says people cannot do to their cars.
 
Road & Track—The Swiss Hillclimb Championship has held its annual Gurnigel Bergrennen competition event every autumn for the last 50 years. It's a 2.3-mile paved hillclimb with over 1000 feet of elevation changes. Cars average more than 81 mph throughout the course, full of tight hairpins and long straightaways. It's not for the faint of heart, as this GT3-R driver will now demonstrate.
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Car and Driver—What It Is: The next-generation Porsche 911, internally called 992. While it retains the trademark rear-engine layout, it represents a major step forward, comparable to the switch from the 997 to the all-new 991 in late 2011.
 
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Automobile—Feeling safe? Burdened by an overwhelming sense of security? Don’t worry; we’ve got the perfect fix for that. If you’ve got the cash, Bring a Trailer has an incredibly cool 1981 Porsche RUF Turbo Cabriolet up for grabs.
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Road & Track—Owing to its limited-production nature, the Porsche Cayman GT4 is already a collector car. That's a shame because a lot of them will be stored away as investments, rarely seeing the light of day. Really, Cayman GT4s should be tearing it up on wet rally stages, like this one.
 
Motor1—We are almost positive we’re looking at the Porsche Mission E in the making judging by the fact that one of the prototypes had a considerable amount of snow within the exhaust finisher. It means there wasn’t anything coming out of there, hence “Yolanda” was running entirely on electric power, otherwise the snow would have melted or would’ve been blown away.
 
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Carscoops—The Porsche Macan has been with us since 2014, winning over reviewers and fans alike with its excellent handling characteristics, performance and high-quality luxury cabin.
 
Carfection via YouTube—The 991.2 generation of Porsche 911 has been given the GTS treatment and the end result just might be the perfect sweet spot.
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Autoblog—The 928 is an outlier for the Porsche brand, an outlier for the public's imagination of what a Porsche looks like, and, frankly, an outlier for the creasy, angular era into which it was born. But it is positively and indelibly affiliated with one thing: the 1983 teen college application/prostitution ring dramedy Risky Business. (Trust us, we know the 928.) Yet, the decision in favor of the Porsche's inclusion (and destruction, and resuscitation) in Risky Business was not at all obvious.
 
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Porsche—Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche 911, 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman sports cars, Macan and Cayenne SUVs, and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, delivered 4,602 vehicles in January. This was the strongest January sales month ever recorded by the company.
 
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 Bill Burns. Intermountain Region. “This is my 1990 944 S2 Cabriolet at Teton National Park in June 2016. Hard to beat a Porsche Cabriolet for seeing our National Parks on their 100th anniversary.”

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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