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| | PCA—It’s hard to believe that the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS, with just 520 horsepower, has beaten the 887-hp 918 Spyder hypercar around the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with a time of 6:56.4. The 918’s former production car lap record was set less than five years ago. |
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PCA—Porsche had long considered adding a four-door to its lineup and even created the Type 989 sedan concept in the late '80s. Yet the automaker would not produce its first series
production sedan, the Panamera, until nearly two decades later. | | PCA—PCA's Treffen Tamaya is starts Wednesday, April 25 and goes through Saturday, April 28. If you're attending, be sure to check out the Treffen Tamaya event listing on Facebook and share your pictures and experiences. If you couldn't make it this time, be sure to follow along via social media.
#TreffenNA #PCATreffenTamaya #PCANational
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| | PCA—Every year PCA’s Central Pennsylvania Region holds the Porsche-Only Swap Meet, which takes place at the Giant Center at Hershey Park. Thousands of members and Porsche enthusiasts attend to score deals on just about anything related to Porsche. Cars, parts, drivetrains, owners manuals, toys, toolkits, car care products — anything. As such, the event is one of those places where
one can find quite odd, rare, and outrageous things, including, but not limited to, the five we describe below. |
PCA—With springtime comes a staple of Porsche Club of America, the Spring 2018 Member Only Raffle, and we’re giving away a Porsche 718 GTS — Boxster or Cayman — plus $25,000 cash as the grand prize. After the initial 8,500 entries, another grand prize will be added for every additional 4,000 entries sold. | | |
| | Porsche Travel Experience—When the road and the car are both on your bucket list, Porsche offers all-inclusive vacations that deliver. Announcing Travel Experiences California and Route 66. Drive an assortment of 911 models on America’s most desirable driving roads. Each tour is 6-night, 5 day event where guests can expect luxury resort lodging, fine dining and entertainment
commensurate of the Porsche brand. Elevate vacation driving to an entirely new level with one of these two tours.
Something truly magical happens when you experience a Porsche vehicle in a relaxed and exclusive setting. Your sense of adventure awakens and you are rewarded with once in a lifetime memories. |
PCA Club Racing—Longtime Porsche Club of America (PCA) Club Racing member Jack McCarthy is no rookie. The 2012 Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona driver has been racing Porsches for years. But at Road Atlanta this month, McCarthy had his first career start – and win – in the semi-professional PCA Club Racing Trophy East Series
with Speedsport Tuning. | | |
| | The Drive—Porsche factory racing driver Patrick Long might have one of the coolest jobs a car enthusiast can hope for, but in his spare time, the 35-year-old flat-six fanatic organizes one of the largest gatherings of air-cooled Porsches in the world. Luftgekühlt, which is German for "air-cooled," is an annual Los Angeles-based meet now in its fifth year, and The
Drive was there to experience it.
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PCA—Porsche Parade Registration is open! Register now for events, activities, banquets, and more! Registration closes June 10, 2018. Be sure to check the Parade website for more information.
Gear up for the 2018 Porsche Parade! Visit the Parade Webstore to order limited-edition shirts, hats, and jackets. These special items will only be available until May 31, 2018. Follow the Parade
Facebook page and watch for details on how you can win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Parade Webstore! (Hint: Contest begins on Friday, April 27th).Register | | |
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.Read More |
| | Autocar via YouTube—What's quicker: a bona fide supercar in the shape of an Audi R8 or a 4-seater large hatchback coup-oon in the way of a Porsche Panamera? The E-Hybrid, producing nearly 700bhp, is the fastest Panamera that Porsche have made to date but it's over 700kg heavier than the R8. Which will win? |
| | Eyewitness News via ABC 7—Most people know the shape and the unmistakable sound of a classic Porsche.
This weekend, the Porsche faithful are gathering for fun in Fontana. To both honor the timeless 911 model, and drive their 911s and other Porsche cars on the Auto
Club Speedway track.
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Road & Track—The Porsche 917 was designed to rip down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans at 220 mph. A true sports prototype, it was not designed for regular road use. But, if you own a 917 in Monaco, you can make your car street-legal thanks to a truly absurd loophole. | | |
Motor1—Since the most recent update, even the least expensive Porsche 911 packs a turbocharged engine, but its legacy as a widow maker continues to give surround the 911 Turbo in an aggressive mystique. This fresh batch of spy shots catches the upcoming power player during some testing around the Nürburgring. |
PCA—PCA
Hill Country Region (HCR) has worked with Circuit of the Americas to provide an exclusive ticket offer for PCA members planning to attend the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix, October 19 – 21, 2018 at Circuit of the Americas (COTA), Austin, Texas. COTA has dedicated seating exclusively for PCA members in the T12 and T15 grandstands. Turn 12 prices range from $325.00 - $395.00 per ticket. Turn 15 prices range from $445.00 – $645.00 per ticket. Other ticket options are also
available. COTA is also offering PCA members discounted parking in Lot T or Lot F for $100.00.
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| | MultiBriefs—In May 1983, young German driver Stefan Bellof piloted his Porsche 956 around the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife in 6 minutes, 11.13 seconds in qualifying for the Nürburgring 1,000-kilometer race as part of that year's World Sportscar Championship. The mark established a track record for the "Green Hell" that still stands today. |
Autoblog—Digital Trends interviewed Porsche GT-car boss Andreas Preuninger, and asked whether the lightweighting Weissach Package could find its way to non-RS cars. Preuninger might have loosed at least a few worms from the proverbial can when he told the site, "I won't rule out some lightweight package will find its way to other model lines in the future." | | |
| | Jalopnik—Restomoded or “reimagined” Porsches with crazy performance are all the rage, as long as you’re willing to shell out ungodly amounts of money. So if you’re a very serious Porsche-driving person with boatloads of cash and a desire to out-do your buddy with a Singer, Canepa’s super limited and insanely fast 959SC is your ride. |
Motor1—In an ambitious move, Porsche has announced that it has plans to produce a new iteration of its Turbienchen product, for which it has brought in around 1.5 million workers to its Leipzig factory. | | |
| | ROCS Auto via YouTube—The Palo Alto 911, Panamericana outlaw. Built by ROCS Motorsports for a Californian client is a purpose built, one-off "race-able" street car. It is built in the spirit of the original Panamericana race through 3000km of treacherous roads of Mexico.Watch Video |
Road & Track—In the past, cars were judged heavily by their 0-60 mph sprints, their quarter-mile times and their top speeds. Those figures are still important, but a Nürburgring lap time is the ultimate metric. Why? This German circuit is arguably the most difficult in the world. All video verified, here are ten of the fastest cars to ever lap the 'Ring. For now. | | |
| | The Drive—Everything can be bought for enough money. But for some items, that cost is simply so high, they're effectively priceless. If you had enough cash, you could probably take the Mona Lisa off the French government's hands—but they'd probably demand enough coin to buy the Force du frappe a half-dozen new ballistic missile submarines, and a sixth week
of vacation for everyone in the civil service for good measure. |
Lockton Motorsports—There have been many changes to auto insurance policies over the past ten years, and consequently it’s likely your personal auto policy excludes damage to your vehicle while participating in an HPDE event.
Even if you think you’re covered based on feedback from your agent or research you conducted years ago, you should review your policy and contact your agent to make sure. Unfortunately, this is a process you should go through each year, as insurers have the right to change their policy terms and conditions (including exclusions) at every policy
renewal.
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Autoblog—Porsche's head of powertrain development has been arrested by German police in the sweeping investigation of diesel emissions violations by parent company Volkswagen Group, sources told German media outlets. |
| | Motor1—Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume, has had to be defended by company insiders who say that he was not the subject of a raid by German police and public prosecutors this week, as Dieselgate investigations continue in a surprise development.Read More |
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Business Insider—Three officials from Porsche AG in South Korea have been charged with falsifying gas emissions documents.
The charges relate to the doctoring of gas emission test results on Porsche cars so as
to receive local government certification between 2014 and 2015. Porsche, which is owned by the Volkswagen Group, sold 2,000 units of those models up until February 2017, according to Yonhap.
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The Drive—On Wednesday morning, the automotive world lit up with yet another round of breaking news in Volkswagen's still-growing Dieselgate scandal: 10 locations connected to former and current Porsche employees had just raided by German authorities as part of the diesel emissions cheating case.
But while investigators continue to dig into the width of the widespread pollution fraud, other people caught up in the scandal earlier on remain in a state of limbo.Read More | | |
| | The Drive—Two of The Drive’s editors—Will Sabel Courtney and Josh Condon—recently spent time with the 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo. They discussed the finer merits and detractors of this super-speedy station wagon via Slack, an instant message program with a fun ability to summon random gifs based on what users type. The following is a partial transcript of that
conversation.Read More |
Roadshow by CNET—o some they're the stuff of dreams. To others, they're barely modified Beetles. Either way, there's no denying the automaker's legendary status. On street, Porsche created one of the most iconic sports cars in history. On the track, they've dominated multiple race series over many decades. Their record at Le Mans, to name one, is staggering.Read More |
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 Serge Small. Riesentöter Region. "Here is my 1972 Porsche 911 T on last years 3-day Targa California drive into the Sierra Mountains. It was shot at sunset on the Mt. Whitney Portal Road just outside of Lone Pine, CA." 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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