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| | PCA—The World Cup of car events, Monterey Car Week, is nearly upon us. In addition to the Porsche Club of America’s Werks Reunion, there are dozens of events going on, and the six major auction houses are bringing their A-game. Here are 10 Porsches in every price range that we’ll be paying attention to. |
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PCA—Werks Reunion in Monterey, California is less than three weeks away, August 24, and whether you’ve decided to put your Porsche on display (click here (link is
external) to register for a corral pass, judged classes are sold out) or plan on spectating, there’s something for everybody. Here are some highlights. Registration closes Friday, August 10. Spectators get free admission. On-site parking is $20. | | PCA—Among the holy relics and icons of the Porsche Historic Archive are some truly curious artifacts. Here are six of our favorites: |
| | 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.
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PCA—It might be difficult to believe but Porsche recently just celebrated its 70th anniversary as a car manufacturer - the first car to bear the Porsche nameplate rolled out of a converted sawmill in Gmünd, Austria on June 8, 1948. 70 Years of Porsche Sportscar written by Christina Rahmes and Josef Arweck
is yet another book from prolific publisher Delius Klasing. | | |
| | PCA—Get ready for another PCA National Office Open House! Join us on Saturday, September 8, 2018 for cars, food and fun with your fellow club members. Come tour the national office and learn some cool PCA history with Executive Director Vu Nguyen. |
LN Engineering—Many people ask, “Why choose a ceramic bearing to replace the original Porsche IMS bearing?”
To answer this, there are a few important things to
consider.
First, many people do not know, but Porsche chose to use a ceramic bearing for their replacement IMS kit released in 2017, which uses a sealed 6204 ceramic hybrid bearing, with 52100 steel races and sintered silicon nitride balls. This comes a full decade after LN Engineering publicly released its first IMS Retrofit kit, using the same bearing Porsche utilizes.
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August Porscheplatz and PCA Car Corral |
PCA—Join us at a Porscheplatz this month. The series heads south to Virginia International Raceway for the Michelin GT Challenge / IMSA WeatherTech Sportscars Championship, August 18-19. We will have presentations by Porsche
GT Porsche Motorsports, sponsors, drawings, Parade Laps and more. Watch the races trackside or relax in the Porscheplatz tent with a cool beverage and follow the action on live feed tv monitors. |
| | Petrolicious—Living in Germany one tends to form an opinion on the automakers based in his country, often in the form of an allegiance to one marque. “I’m an Audi guy,” “BMW will never be Mercedes-Benz,” “M3 forever”—that sort of
thing. I try not to pick sides though, as to me it just limits one’s potential experiences in the world of Car. Not only in the sense that if you drive one brand and one brand only you’ll miss out on the good stuff built by the others, there’s also the social aspect of hanging out with a crowd of people that may or may not constitute an echo chamber. It’s something to be always be wary about. |
PCA—Every few years, Porsche Panorama conducts a survey of its readership to ensure that we produce the Porsche content you want to read about. Make the magazine yours by filling out the survey in its entirety. It should only take about five to ten minutes. Only current members and Test Drive participants logged in to the PCA website are allowed access to the survey. | | |
| | PCA—To celebrate 70 years of Porsche, the world’s greatest sports car, Porsche Design has created a timepiece exclusively for Porsche Club of America (PCA) members: the Chronograph 70Y Sportwagen PCA Edition. Strictly limited to only 70 timepieces worldwide, this masterpiece pays tribute to the passion, commitment and camaraderie of PCA members, as well as the legendary Chronograph I,
the first-ever timepiece developed by Porsche Design. Watch purchasers have the option to receive their new timepiece during a ceremony at Rennsport Reunion VI. |
Motor Trend—We've known for a while that the Porsche 911 was due for a redesign. For more than a year, our spy photographers have regularly caught Porsche testing prototypes in the wild. As with previous redesigns, we assumed from the beginning that the new 911 would hide most of its changes beneath generally familiar sheetmetal. But even so, it's still cool to get a look at this prototype driving around almost completely
camouflage-free. |
Motor1—The Porsche 911 is a genuine icon of the automotive world. Despite over 50 years of evolution, there's still a visible connection from the first examples to the ones sitting in showrooms today. Porsche's engineers also manage to refine this layout over time to keep the 911 on top, like the latest GT2 RS being one of the quickest production cars in the world around the Nürburgring. Now, a new generation is on the horizon, but with several years
of spy shots in our archive, there's a ton of disparate info about the model floating around. Here's everything we know about the next 911 in one place. |
Roadshow via CNET—When Porsche launched the 991-generation 911 GT3 for 2014, it was quite the specimen. It had a 3.8-liter boxer six-cylinder engine making a stout 475 horsepower with a stratospheric 9,000-rpm redline. It had features like an adaptive suspension, torque-vectoring rear differential and rear-wheel steering, making it a turn-key track terror. | | |
| | Petrolicious—The Kottenrun—an informal get-together between friends to cruise from Spa and the Ardennes to the Eifel Mountains in Germany by way of Luxembourg—is far from being the largest Porsche Treffen in the world, in Europe, or in Germany. |
Jalopnik—When you look at the last few batches of headline-grabbing McLarens, Lamborghinis and Porsches, they’ve had one thing to offer: lap times. Nürburgring records. Extreme track performance. I say unto you now: who actually gives a shit? One of the best and fastest cars I’ve ever driven is the 580 horsepower 2018 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, and it will never see a track day, ever. And when you’re behind the wheel,
you won’t care. | | |
| | Porsche Newsroom—Created by the designers at Style Porsche – implemented by the experts from the Porsche Classic workshop. The seats and interior fittings are painstakingly covered with leather by hand in the dedicated saddlery, where the precise finish is rounded off in black leather with gold appliqué detail.Watch Video |
The Truth About Cars—There are two things that all men think they’re good at: sex and driving. While I won’t make any comment on the former, I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that most of you are really bad at driving. Sure, if you consider going back and forth to the grocery store and back without too
much trouble, or putting the accelerator pedal to the floor and making very loud noises “driving,” then you’re probably okay. But any sort of combination of braking, turning, hitting apexes, tracking out, transferring weight, heel-toe shifting… yeah, you’re not good at that. | | |
| | Motor Trend—The Porsche 718 Cayman S is already an exceptionally good sports car for the money, as we found in our 2017 Best Driver's Car Competition, where we named it runner-up. But for not too much more, you can have the GTS model with more power and an assortment of popular features. In this video, we give you seven reasons why it's worth it to upgrade to the
GTS. |
Road & Track—Publicly crushing illegally imported cars seems to have become a habit for governments wishing to teach its law-breaking citizens a lesson. This latest video out of the Philippines might be the most brutal display of import car destruction yet. | | |
| | Roadshow by CNET—Did you know the average tire completes 800 rotations for every mile of travel? Multiply that by the amount of miles you drive every year and that rubber is spending a lot of time rolling on the pavement. |
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PCA—Described as a museum springing to life, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is the largest event held during the famed Monterey Classic Car Week, and is the only event where vintage race cars are doing what they were originally intended to do…race.
And what better way to enjoy this step
back into history than to watch the races from the PCA Car Corral and Hospitality Tent? The Car Corral and Hospitality Tent are open to PCA members and Porsche owners. This year our Corral and Tent are located inside Turn 5. For those of you that attended the Porscheplatz at Laguna Seca, you know this is probably one of the primo-viewing areas on the track.
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| | Motor1—Like it or not, the Macan is one of the (if not the most) important vehicles in Porsche’s current lineup. Basically, it’s the cash cow that brings fresh money to the company and helps it improve the sports cars that car nerds (like us) adore. Given that, it’s not surprising at all that the brand is paying so much attention to SUV – while modest, the recent facelift the Macan
received is spot on. And here’s why. |
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. |
InsideEVs—The Porsche Taycan will be the German brand’s first all-electric model. The production version of the Mission E concept is slated to arrive on the market in 2019. The vehicle is set to feature some impressive technical specs and range. The company’s first electric vehicle is set to boast two permanently synchronous motors – one for the front axle and the other driving the rear wheels – providing a combined output of more than 600 horsepower
(440 kilowatts). | | |
| | Porsche Newsroom—On the Road America racetrack in the US state of Wisconsin, New Zealander Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium scored fourth place in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR after a turbulent race. The sister car with drivers Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and Patrick Pilet (France) took the flag in fifth place. In the GTD class, Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA) and
Porsche Selected Driver Christina Nielsen from Denmark (both Wright Motorsports) celebrated their first win together in the Porsche 911 GT3 R. |
Motor1—Porsche is kicking off the 911 GT3 RS Challenge – a competition, searching for the most talented driver, who can “master this thoroughbred sports car.” All you need to do is prove your skills online and offline. | | |
PCA—Want to get published in PCA.org and e-Brake News and be part of the 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
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Griot's Garage partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest |
| | PCA—We are excited to announce a new partnership with Griot's Garage for our Porsche Photo of the Week contest. Starting in May, winners will receive a Griot's Garage Concours Lawn Kit, a $99.99 value. We will also randomly award a PotW voter each month a PFM Speed Shine
Kit, a $28.99 value. All you have to do is cast a vote for your favorite Porsche photo. |
Photo by Brian Leidig. Monterey Bay Region. "This is a 2015 911 Turbo Cabriolet (991)
built by Porsche Exclusive. Photo was taken at the Blessing of the Cars in the Carmel Mission courtyard during the Concours de Elegance in Monterey." 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. |
e-Brake News
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Damon Lowney Digital Media Coordinator & e-Brake News Editor damonl@pca.org (410) 381-0911
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