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PCA—The 2018 Werks Reunion Amelia Island hosted by Porsche Club of America went off without a hitch on Friday, March 9, the day | | before the flagship Concours d’Elegance. It attracted more than 500 Porsches in the display corral and
judged classes, thousands of spectators throughout the day, and hundreds more Porsches in the spectator parking area. Enthusiasts came together to celebrate camaraderie, the marque — and Outlaw 356s in particular.
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PCA—It’s hard to call this a seismic shift — we’ve seen this coming for a while — but the Amelia Island auctions have likely cemented the proposition that low-production, late-model Porsches are blue-chip collectibles, not a fad, not a bubble in the making, but a here-to-stay reality in the collector car world. | | PCA—Do you have boxes stashed away that to a casual observer would simply contain an old tool kit, a random assortment of fasteners, lenses, or rubber bits? Do you save every Porsche
magazine that you have ever read? Do you carefully collect brochures for every car you have ever owned or simply dreamed of owning?Read More |
PCA—Join Porsche Club of America (PCA) and Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) at the Porscheplatz at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, Friday and Saturday, March 16-17. At the Porscheplatz you can relax, watch the races on live feed TV and enjoy a cool beverage. There will be presentations by Porsche GT Team drivers, Porsche Motorsport North America, and Porsche Global Partners. Register to win an exclusive "IMSA Hot Pit Experience" and
more. - Tickets are still available
- Plan your race day, check out the Agenda
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| | PCA—Ferrari and Aston Martin have a long history of hosting single-marque classic car auctions in their respective hometowns of Maranello and Newport Pagnell. Now Porsche joins that illustrious group. RM Sotheby’s,has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale, an exclusive, single-marque auction to be held at Porsche Cars North America’s (PCNA) Experience Center in
Atlanta.
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Carfection via
YouTube—The devil is in the detail with the 991.2 GT3 RS. Henry Catchpole finds out all the small nuances of the car at the Geneva Motorshow from Andreas Preuninger, the man who knows the car best. | | |
| | JE Pistons—Vintage Porsches are some of the most raced classics on the market and JE Pistons has introduced a new line of air-cooled pistons to support the full gamut of vintage 911 chassis. Whether you’re a racer or restorer, JE has the pistons you need.
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| | CarScoops—This year’s Geneva Motor Show was packed full of gorgeous, futuristic, ultra-connected, autonomous and electrified vehicles. The Sbarro 4×4+2 concept is not one of them. |
Robb Report via YouTube—The Porsche
Effect exhibit at Los Angeles's Petersen Automotive Museum is a year-long tribute to what makes a Porsche... a Porsche. It's the most comprehensive collection of historic vehicles ever assembled outside of Germany, and combines automobiles, artifacts, archival material, film footage, and visual reproductions. In this video, Robb Report gets a look at what you'll find at the exhibition. | | |
Photo by Patrick Stevenson / courtesy Petrolicious | | Petrolicious—The movies make summer camp out to be full of adventures, friendships, and all manner of joyous sun-soaked experiences that you’ll look back on with a smile. As an adult, memories like these are made less often. Work, family, and all the unnamed piles of small obligations keep us not from good things, but from things with that distinct feeling of a carefree childhood summer. Then again, there’s a driving event in California that feels very
much like an automotive version of that summer camp experience. It’s called the Coastal Range Rally (CRR), and it’s put on by the group of friends and fellow enthusiasts behind Driving While Awesome (DWA). |
Porsche via YouTube—From the stunning 356 to the outstanding 917: In the latest episode of the Porsche Top 5 series Patrick Long presents 5 awesome air-cooled sports cars. Watch
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| | USA Today—Were it not for a wife, kids and moral compass, this review might have been written from some badlands hideout south of the border, my trusty 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 doubling as both escape vehicle and cramped hotel room. |
| | PCA—Experience some of North America’s best driving roads. Savor the sumptuous blend of flavors, from Spanish and Native American cultures. New Mexico offers a host of wonderful destinations. |
The Drive—Designed as an ultra-lightweight, wingless, manual-only 911 GT3, the Porsche 911 R is known as one of the most coveted collector cars of the modern era with appropriately exorbitant price tags to boot. Its success arguably kicked off a new wave of pure, driver-focused Porsches and it turns
out, we may or may not have a '90s sitcom star to thank for it. | | |
| | MultiBriefs—It was smoldering.
The fire that raged for 924s was reduced to an ember. This happens with nearly everything I obsess about…except for my woman.
It’s possible that knowing everything
about a particular subject leaves nothing to the imagination. This becomes a problem because the next step in an obsession is possession, and that can be ruined psychologically. When all is revealed, the fascination dissolves.
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Motor Trend—Late last year, Porsche CEO Oliver Blume divulged to Automotive News that his company wants to make a plug-in hybrid 911. Although he didn’t mention any specifics on output, we know that if Porsche offers a plug-in hybrid, whether it’s the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid or the 918 Spyder, it’s going to be very powerful. Now, Blume is saying that the plug-in 911 could deliver around 690 hp. |
Motor1—Porsche will not "lower itself to gimmicks" with its new Mission E electric sports car, the company’s head of battery electric vehicles has said. | | |
| | Car and Driver—Porsche has clearly stated that it’s not getting on the fully autonomous bandwagon; the 911 sports car will always have a steering wheel, the automaker recently underscored. But Porsche has embraced another big trend: electrification. A plug-in hybrid 911 is confirmed to be back on the table, spurred by the success of the brand’s Le Mans Prototype hybrid race cars,
and the electrification of the fabled sports car might not stop there. |
Reuters—Three new representatives of the Porsche and Piech family will take seats on the supervisory board of Porsche Automobil Holding, the company said on Friday, handing responsibility for Volkswagen’s oversight to a younger generation. |
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PCA—Porsche Parade 2018 Phase 1 Registration is open! Have you reserved your housing? Ample options are still available. Phase 2 Event Registration will open April 2.
Porsche Parade, PCA's annual weeklong event, takes place in a new location each year. For 2018, we're heading to the midwest — the summer resort town of Osage
Beach on the Lake of the Ozarks. In addition to traditional Parade activities such as concours, autocross, time-speed-distance and gimmick rallies, the location provides family friendly fun with watersports, boating, golf, an indoor waterpark, and more. | | |
| | Road & Track—Vintage Porsche race cars are all kinds of cool, but this beautifully restored 906 Carrera 6 stands out. Raced from new throughout Europe and South Africa, we think it would be the perfect addition to any true Porsche enthusiast's collection. |
Motor Trend—Porsche first debuted the Panamera in 2009, so it’s had a lot of time to perfect the four-door coupe formula. Recently moving into its second generation, the new Panamera dons a more tapered and stylish rear end, a bold active spoiler, and a simplified and more harmonious interior compared to the previous
model. The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show makes a nice showing its inaugural year, although it adopts a tamer look than we all expected. | | |
| | Jalopnik—During Gooding & Company’s collector car auction at Amelia Island this week, this particularly low-mile Zambezi Green 1974 Porsche 914 2.0-liter sold for a massive $93,000 hammer price. This is an unfathomable price for such a car. A well-kept 914 is an incredible car, perhaps still one of the most underrated cars of its time, but there is no universe in which it
provides $93,000 of enjoyment. This inflated Porsche value madness has to end!Read More |
Autoblog—Porsche unveiled the next iteration of its Mission E pure battery-powered electric-vehicle platform in Geneva this week. But instead of being a low-slung sport sedan like the original Mission E introduced in Frankfurt in fall 2015, this Cross Turismo is more of a high-riding, long-roofed vehicle — not exactly an electric Cayenne, but more like a
jacked-up version of a battery-powered Panamera Sport Turismo. | | |
| | Porsche Newsroom—Snow crunches under the winter tyres; the sound is like glass splintering. Slowly and tentatively, the wheels of two vehicles roll onto the frozen lake of St. Moritz: a Porsche 911 ST rally vehicle from the 1970s, closely followed by the latest GT2 RS. Both vehicles represent the peak performance of their respective eras. In
the seventies, the 911 ST was super lightweight, a radical racing machine, a full-throttle experience. Today’s GT2 RS is a high-tech virtuoso, taking a trip into the parallel world of what is feasible, an explosion of contradictions. So what do they have in common? Their analytical appeal and robust functionality. Pure emotion comes next, when the driving begins. It’s time. |
Jalopnik—Different models sharing platforms across brands is a common practice among big automakers like Volkswagen Group. It saves them the time and money instead of making new platforms for cars. And starting in 2022, it seems like all-electric models from Bentley, Audi and Porsche will share a platform. |
Motor1—Forza Motorsport 7 and Gran Turismo Sport dominate the simulation racing genre on video game consoles, but Project Cars 2 might be the best pick for players that really want to customize their experience, including weather, time of day, time acceleration, number of cars on track, and fine-tuning AI driver's skill. Now, a new pack of downloadable content adds 9 Porsches and a new track to the experience, too. | | |
Motor Authority—Porsche believes it will thrive and also set standards in the auto industry's coming electrification era, and the innovation has already begun today.
The German performance marque announced it will bring blockchain to its cars, a digital ledger that records transactions chronologically and
publicly.
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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
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Photo by Donna Dreher. Ohio
Valley Region. "Here is a photo of my late father's 1958 356 Speedster taken as we walked away, after delivering the vehicle at Porsche Cars North America's Atlanta Experience Center. It was on exhibit in the Heritage Gallery." 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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