e-Brake News: Treffen Asheville registration opens tomorrow, May 24

Published: Tue, 05/23/17

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May 23, 2017
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PCA—Treffen Asheville – Drive, Dine, Explore – offers the exceptional combination of historic accommodations, superb dining events, and fantastic driving roads. The event is Sept. 20-23, 2017. Registration opens May 24 at 3 PM EDT.
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PCA—You have a little more than two weeks to buy tickets for a chance to win one of four Carrera GTSs — raffle closes June 1. If enough tickets are purchased before then, we'll add a fifth!
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PCA—Seeing a kid experience the immensity of their favorite theme park for the first time is exactly what Luftgekühlt four felt like for grown-ups this year. Normally, its difficult to recreate that experience but Patrick Long and Howie Idelson have perfected the art of curating a transcendent Porsche enthusiast event.
 
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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 1991 944 S2, a 1999 911 Carrera, and a 2008 911 Turbo.
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PCA—Most of my 911 seat time has been in one of the five air-cooled cars that I’ve owned over the years. Interestingly, I think I’ve driven nearly every gearbox available on the 911 from 901 to 915 to G50 and Tiptronic. I’ve even tried a Sportomatic car. Oddly enough, I’d never driven a PDK-equipped car until Porsche’s U.S. launch event of the 911 GTS at Lake Tahoe earlier this week. I’m a you-can-pry-my-clutch-pedal-away-from-my-cold-dead-foot person, so I thought it would be interesting to give what is arguably the world’s best and most sophisticated automatic gearbox an objective look.
 
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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 is open.
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PCA—Join us at the PCA Car Corral for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix (link is external)presented by Lear at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park, Detroit Michigan, June 2 – 4, 2017. The event will feature the cars of the Verizon IndyCar Series, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (link is external), the high-flying trucks of the SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks  and the Trans Am Series.
 
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The Smoking Tire via YouTube—This Porsche 991 GT3 is unique in that it has a complete Porsche 991 GT3 Cup body swap and geometry to complete the "race car for the street" feel their customer was looking for. It makes 475 HP with a breathed on 3.8L naturally aspirated engine, and has a full BBI Street Cup Suspension package with JRZ independent reservoir shocks. The result is as close as you could actually come to driving a Porsche Cup Car on the road, without any real downsides.
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Caution: There are a couple profane words used at the end of the video starting at 11:43. Stop watching before if you don't want to hear them.
 
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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.
 
Petrolicious—You may remember a certain mountain goat-esque 356 that we filmed in a bonafide forest a few years ago, and its owner/rider Matt Hummel recently stopped by en-route to another pavementless adventure in the same car—somewhere in the desert this time, I believe.
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Please take this quick 5-question survey to help us tailor PCA programs to your preferences! Everyone who completes the survey will be entered in a drawing to win a $250 gift certificate from Pelican Parts (where you can get parts and accessories for your Porsche at www.PelicanParts.com). This should only take 5-10 minutes of your time to complete. We appreciate your help and look forward to continually refining your PCA experience!
 
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The Drive—If you've recently shelled out almost a mill for a much-coveted, manual-only Porsche 911 R, you may want to look away. A rumor has been making the rounds suggesting that a "X90 Touring Package" for the refreshed 991.2 GT3—a car that's notably available with three pedals again—essentially turns it into a 911 R.
 
Drivetribe via YouTube—From the McLaren F1 GTR and Porsche 911 GT1, to the Mercedes CLK GTR and Ferrari F40 LM, watch the ultimate '90s endurance racing icons take part in a high-speed demo at the 75th Goodwood Members' Meeting.
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The Drive—Carjacking is a crime that has long bedeviled South Africa. The annual numbers (whether rising or falling) are a constant in local headlines, there are public lists of the most notorious intersections, and there's even a school devoted to teaching you the skills to safely avoid and escape the situation.
 
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Bloomberg—Those who talk a lot, they often don’t do a lot.

And those who do a lot? They don’t need to talk a lot.

It’s a rule that applies to everything from the playing field to the boardroom. It applies to what you wear and what you drive, too. If you have a special car, you don't need to make a fuss. The people you want to understand? They'll understand.
 
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Motor1—We are less than a month away from the 85th 24 Hours of Le Mans event at the famous Circuit de la Sarthe in France and you’ll be happy to hear the grueling endurance race will have a correspondent in the exciting world of gaming thanks to Porsche and Microsoft.
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Petrolicious—We’ve previously featured the outstanding work from our friends at Workshop 5001, and the latest Porsche they’ve created in their SoCal sanctum only bolsters their reputation for building quality hot-rodded 911s. After following Marlon Goldberg up into the canyons for some photos of the little blue Porsche, we sat down to go over the details.
 
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The Drive—When you have the keys to a brand new Porsche 911 GTS in your hand, where are you going to take it? Porsche is aiming to find the greatest driving roads in the world, and they're enlisting the GTS community to help them accomplish that.
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Inside EVs—If you want the best Porsche Panamera that money can buy, then the plug-in version is the one for you.
Those are basically the words of Porsche Cars North America’s Chief Operating Officer Joe Lawrence.
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Motor1—Can you think of a more legendary sports model in the history of the automotive industry than the Porsche 911? We tried but we failed. The German manufacturer says “the continuity of the 911 design is unique in automotive history – from the first to the latest generation.” We couldn’t agree more.
 
Autocar via YouTube—The 552bhp Porsche 911 Turbo S is one of the fastest cars around a tight handling course. Today, though, it's up against some stiff competition in the form of a Formula 4 car. Can the Porsche hold off the racer? Steve Sutcliffe finds out.
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Autoblog—The man in charge of Porsche's rear-engine sports car says the 911 S may not be long for this world, and we have this car to thank. The GTS model, which is a collection of popular equipment on top of a 911 S, has proven, well, popular.
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Jalopnik—Divorces are unpleasant, messy things, something that seems true for both people and car companies. When Fiat and Spanish carmaker SEAT parted ways back in 1983, it got messy. One of the results of that messiness is the car you see above, one of the rare cars that became an important part of a legal battle. There’s a reason why it’s painted so funny. (​​​​​​​Ed.: We swear there's a Porsche aspect to this story...)
 
The Truth About Cars—​​​​​​​German prosecutors verified the launch of a formal investigation involving Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller and chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch due to suspected market manipulation.
 
PCA Club Racing—Do you love racing? Apply for the PCA Club Racing Business Manager full-time position today! Must be willing to work from PCA's office in the Baltimore-Washington area. Click on the link below to download the full job description.
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Porsche of the Week
Photo by Rob Morland. Polar Region. “This is my 1998 Porsche Boxster. The photo was taken at the Blaylock Mansion BnB in Nelson, B.C., Canada. The most common question asked about my Boxster is, What’s the color? It is a custom color ‘Vibrant Emerald.’”

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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