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| | PCA—Last year we took a trip out to Flat 6 Innovations research and development facility in Georgia to learn all about the intermediate shaft (IMS) and the IMS bearing in Porsche’s first water-cooled flat sixes. These two engine components have proven problematic in some Porsche 911s, Boxsters, and Caymans from model years 1997 through 2008. Our latest video explains the four
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PCA—Porsche Parade Phase 2 Event Registration opens April 2 at 12 PM EDT! Though Phase 1 Housing Registration is temporarily suspended as we prepare for Phase 2 Registration, worry not: You may register for housing when Phase 1 reopens, and there
are also other options available in the area. Click here for additional lodging ideas. Be sure to check the Parade Facebook page and the website for updates and to prepare for Phase 2 registration.Read More | | PCA—Most racing enthusiasts are quite familiar with Hurley Haywood. Throughout his career, the American race car driver has won pretty much every prestigious event, many times in a Porsche:
A record five overall victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, three at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and two at the 12 Hours of Sebring in addition to a 1988 Trans-Am title, two IMSA GT Championship titles, three Norelco Cup championships, a SuperCar title, and eighteen IndyCar races including at the Indianapolis 500.Read More |
| | PCA—All registrants for Treffen Tamaya will be automatically entered into a raffle for a chance to win an unforgettable Treffen Europe trip from the official PCA Treffen travel company Fast Lane Travel! Additional details to
come!
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.Register for
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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 bi-weekly column in which PCA media staff pick what they think are the "freshest" Porsches currently available, and then attempt to explain their reasoning. Up this week are a 2003
911 Carrera, 1984 944, and 2012 911 Carrera GTS.Read More | | |
| | Road & Track—Now that the Nürburgring is open for 2018, it seems everyone is starting to take advantage, including manufacturers. Industry test pool sessions are underway, which means all sorts of wild camouflaged sports cars are coming out to play.Watch Video |
Porsche Newsroom—The sixth episode of the ‘Porsche Top 5’ YouTube series takes viewers to an abandoned airfield. In this barren environment, five exceptional Porsche sports cars have been brought together to discover which is the fastest to accelerate from 0 to
100km/h.Watch Video | | |
| | Motor1—Envision the future is both difficult and wondrous. We still lack flying cars and intergalactic space travel. However, each day that passes, the out-there ideas of generations’ past become a reality. Automakers have a particularly tough time predicting the future because at any given time they’re designing cars that will enter production four or five years into the future.
Predicting customer trends, tastes, and other variables is a challenge. What customers bought four or five years ago is different from today’s trends. Just look at the move toward crossovers and SUVs now that the economy is recovering, and gas prices remain low.Watch Video |
Car and Driver—How you feel in the brief pause between switching off the engine and opening the door tells you nearly everything about a car. In most good ones, there’s a warm afterglow of emotions and contemplation reminiscent of the finest psychotropics. Shutting off a Porsche 911 GT3’s flat-six leaves you suspended in silence, a brief respite before the stale adrenaline and paranoia hit. | | |
| | Inside EVs—When Porsche Mission E owners first pull up to the fast-charging power pump, they will be reminded that the price of the juice needed by their premium EV was not included in the original invoice. Unlike Tesla, whose mission is “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport…,” and offered, until recently, free lifetime Supercharging to owners of the Model S and
Model X, the German automaker is a little less altruistic.
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PCA—Porsche Parade: Lake of the Ozarks is only four months away, and event registration opens April 2 at 12 PM EDT. Here is the Parade Competition Rules (PCR) book, a guide to the various competitive events on offer at Parade.
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Car and Driver—Our test of 600-hp cars nine years ago looked very different from this one. Fenders bulged. Eight-, 10-, and 12-cylinder engines boomed. Hoods stretched to the horizon—except for that of the Italian, which carried its engine behind the cockpit. Because nine years ago, rounding up
four cars with 600 horsepower meant coming face to face with rare and exotic sporting machines. |
| | Petrolicious—Like last week’s installment in our Made to Drive series, we are back in France, only this time at much higher elevation as we power slide through the snowy roads of the Courchevel ski resort perched high in the Alps. With his skis affixed atop and a preference for counter-steering, Mark Birch is using his 1994 RS2 exactly as intended. Sure-footed Quattro paired with a
classic Audi turbo five under the hood is a recipe for the ultimate snow day as far as we’re concerned, and though it never received any motorsport attention, it sure does a good job of aping its WRC relatives as it carves sideways ruts into the churned-up powder behind it.Read More |
Road & Track—With a new 911 on its way and the Carrera lineup featuring exclusively turbocharged motors, there's a suspicion that the next Porsche 911 GT3 and GT3 RS might move to turbo powerplants. We don't think this will happen, for a very specific reason.Read More | | |
Photo by Robb Pritchard / courtesy Petrolicious | | Petrolicious—Total sensory overload. That’s how I’d describe Techno-Classica’s 120,000 square meters of floor space spread out over 21 halls. With 1,200 exhibitors and 2,700 cars for sale, it’s a massive extravaganza of all things old and shiny, to put it lightly. From the Lancia S4 Stradale by the door to the Bentley prototype and Isderas in the back rooms, to the modified Porsche creations from the likes of DP Motorsport, to the distinctive papaya
orange glow of a Can-Am McLaren, there was a little bit of everything at this year’s event in Essen, Germany.Read
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Road & Track—The "barn find" has well and truly become a trope in the automotive world. It's progressed far beyond the original notion—discovering some rare or valuable vehicle in the neglected corner of a structure, long forgotten by its original owner—and progressed to the absurd.Read More | | |
| | Motor1—When Porsche introduced the third-generation Cayenne at the end of August 2017, it only revealed the V6-powered base and S versions together with the beefier Turbo equipped with a larger V8 engine. Later this year, the wraps will come off an E-Hybrid derivative expected to use the same powertrain as the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid.Watch Video |
Jalopnik—The air-cooled vintage Porsche market is little bonkers lately, with some folks paying upwards of six-figures or more for some rare specimen. Well, if you have a desire for an old Porsche but are working with a modest budget here is your chance, just make sure you get a tetanus shot.Read More | | |
| | Motor1—The debut of the Porsche Mission E in production guise is still a little over a year away, but the German brand already has production of prototypes on the way – like the ones that we see in so many spy shots. As part of the company's annual report, Porsche released a few photos showing the assembly of one of these pre-production vehicles.Read More |
| Endorsed by PCA- Unlimited Mileage? OK
- Commuting? Now Available
- $0 Deductible? Check
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Porsche Newsroom—Porsche shares the success of the company with its employees: After the most successful year in the company’s history, employees at Porsche AG will receive a special bonus of up to 9,300 euro gross.Read More | | |
Jalopnik—If you looked at the test mule above and went, “Oh, that’s just another Porsche 911,” then you’d be right. It definitely is another Porsche 911, but it’s also probably the new 992-generation 911. |
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 Armando Colorado. Kansas City Region. "I took this photo at a Porsche dealer auto show event in Kansas City. This 718 Cayman S is absolutely gorgeous from top to bottom (as shown in reflection)." 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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