e-Brake News: What’s driving the entry-level air-cooled Porsche market?

Published: Tue, 05/09/17

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May 9, 2017
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PCA—Without wading into the eternal conflict of the merits of air-cooled versus water-cooled, it’s sufficient to say that air-cooled Porsches have a certain cachet.
To anyone born in the last 30 years, the technology is novel — it’s been obsolete for all of their adult life. Since Stuttgart isn’t making any more of them, the extant population of air-cooled Porsches is the most that will ever exist. Through natural attrition, it can only be downhill from here and the normal rules of scarcity and demand dictate only one result.
 
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PCA—Many times in order to restore an old Porsche it's easier to buy a second “parts car” rather than to hunt down every little piece needed for the restoration. Normally the car being restored is in better shape than the car being sacrificed for parts, so it’s easy to see why one might be chopped up to save another. But that isn’t how it always plays out.
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PCA—A popular PCA member benefit is The Mart, the club’s classifieds section online and in each issue of Porsche Panorama. Mart Fresh is a new, weekly column in which PCA media staff pick what they think are the “freshest” Porsches currently available in The Mart, and then attempt to explain their reasoning. Up this week are a 1972 911T Targa, a 2004 911 GT3, and a bargain-priced Boxster. Read on and let us know on Facebook whether you agree with our choices.
 
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PCA—Get ready for Werks Reunion Monterey once again, the premiere Porsche show during Monterey Car Week. The event is August 18, and registration opens May 10 at 12 PM PDT.
 
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PCA—We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: The 996-generation Porsche 911 is a great car that happens to be underappreciated at the moment. It would seem Drivetribe’s Jethro Bovingdon would agree, as he details his own Porsche in his latest video. Read between the lines, and you’ll realize now is the time to buy a 996 at a bargain.
 
Rennlist—991.1 GT3 RS values are inflated by Porsche enthusiasts who want the ultimate machine, and are willing to put up with the lack of a manual transmission. However, with the launch of the 991.2 GT3, available with a manual transmission and essentially the same engine as the 991.1 GT3 RS, some will jump ship from the GT3 RS to the new GT3. Will that decrease demand, and thus asking prices of the 991.1 GT3 RS?
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PCA—The Spring 2017 Member Only Raffle is open, and this time the grand prize should have you drooling: a Porsche 911 Carrera GTS plus $25,000 in cash.
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RND Engines—The M96 engine was first introduced with the 1997 Porsche Boxster and featured many innovations which allowed Porsche to provide an exceptional balance between performance and price. The M96 platform was used successfully through the 2008 model year and was featured in all Boxster, Cayman, and 911 models, with exception of the GT3, Turbo, and GT2.
 
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PCA—Join your fellow Porsche Club of America members at the 62nd Porsche Parade on July 9-15, 2017. Parade is PCA’s annual, weeklong event enjoyed by several thousand of your fellow members, who will gather this year in Spokane, Washington.
Note to Parade sponsors and exhibitors: Find event info here. Contact Vu Nguyen (vun@national.pca.org) for sponsor and exhibitor registration details.
 
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evo via YouTube—The new Porsche 911 GT3 has celebrated its first day on the Nürburgring with a lap time of 7 minutes, 12.7 seconds for the legendary Nordschleife. The 991.2 GT3, beat the time set by the previous model by 12.3 seconds.
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Motor Trend—The Porsche Boxster has undergone a transformation for 2017, replacing its naturally aspirated six-cylinder boxer engine with a turbocharged flat-four and adopting the resurrected 718 nomenclature. The car is faster than the model it replaces, but is it better? Host Carlos Lago returns to Ignition one last time to find out.
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The Drive—He helped create Lüftgekuhlt, he can't wheelie, and he doesn't like twinkies. Patrick Long is one of the coolest racing drivers, and this is your opportunity to get to know him a little better.
 
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Oversteer by Autotrader—Yes, it finally happened. After nearly 20 years and 248,000 miles, the engine in my 1999 Porsche 911 decided to leave this world. It didn't go out in a blaze of glory -- or with a violent bang. It died in a way that was just as confusing as the way it lived -- and I captured its final moments on video.
 
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Road & Track—Today's hybrid LMP1 cars are monsters. With around 900 horsepower and absurd amounts of downforce, the Porsche 919 Hybrid and the Toyota TS050 tackle road courses with speed that has to be seen to be believed. Just watch Le Mans-winner Earl Bamber lap Spa in the #02 Porsche 919 Hybrid for proof.
 
MultiBriefs—Porsche is known for flat-six engines, and it's no wonder why. Just think of the epic cars that have used the six-cylinder boxer configuration. Every production 911 has had a flat-six engine and, until recently, so did all Boxsters and Caymans, as did the 914/6.
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Evo via YouTube—A new Porsche 911 GT3? It's enough to make the evo office weep with joy. But can the new 2017 GT3 top its predecessors on the evo Leaderboard when we take it round the Anglesey track?
 
Autoweek—You might think hanging a 420-pound, 500-hp 4.0-liter hunk of flat-six over the back wheels of the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 would make it hard to handle at speed (or otherwise). You might also think adding rear-wheel steering would accentuate that skittishness. You, and probably some physicists, would be wrong on both accounts.
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The Drive—Rod Emory is one of those enigmatic characters in the Porsche world that strives toward goals with tenacity, and forges his own path. He doesn't do things in half-measures, and when he stands behind something, you can be assured of it's quality.
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Black Flag via Jalopnik—You never really know how how much race cars depend on their aerodynamics until they suddenly snap off at high speed.
 
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Road & Track—It started the way a lot of great relationships do: with indifference bordering on contempt. We met in the spring of 2005, the SCCA National Solo autocross season just around the corner. My 1995 Porsche 911 was, in my opinion, getting just a bit too old and fragile to be used for National-level competition.
 
Autoblog—We love the Porsche Cayman GT4. It's the car enthusiasts were clamoring for since the mid-engine coupe debut in the mid 2000s. Porsche finally stopped worrying about stepping on the 911's toes and gave the Cayman all the tools it needed to be the car we all knew it could be. It almost immediately sold out, so it's no surprise that a new version has been spotted out and about at the Nürburgring.
 
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Car and Driver—Demand for faster and fancier SUVs has created some unlikely performance leviathans. The number of premium automakers that are holding out against the trend is dwindling seemingly by the minute. But,  although Porsche can lay good claim to having kick-started the entire segment with the original Cayenne, we can take comfort that the company’s Motorsport division says it will never diversify into SUVs.
 
Motor1—Porsche will recall 51,497 examples of the Macan, including the base crossover, Macan S, Macan GTS, and Macan Turbo, in the United States because of a possible fuel leak. There are an additional 8,346 of them in Canada. The issue affects vehicles with production dates from March 4, 2014, to April 14, 2017.
 
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Autoblog—Porsche is opening a digital technology center with 100 staff in Silicon Valley to forge new partnerships, cooperate with venture-capital companies and invest in new companies, it said on Friday.
 
Motor1—After a few years on the market, Porsche is preparing a refresh for its ultra-popular Macan crossover, and a new batch of spy photos lets us see the updated model in a less snowy environment.
 
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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 Greg Russell. Rocky Mountain Region. “This is a shot of my mostly original 1972 914 cruising around the lake on a hot August Saturday in Colorado. The targa top made it a perfect summertime drive, as one can remove or install the top on a whim, depending on the sun, heat, or an approaching thunderstorm. I love having this Porsche as a garage-mate to my mostly original 1974 911.”

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