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| | PCA—Last weekend’s sale of significant Porsches at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta celebrating the automaker’s 70th anniversary was probably one of the most hotly anticipated sales of the year. |
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PCA—This year Porsche built a brand-new 993-generation 911 Turbo S, known as “Project Gold,” with the intent of selling it for charity during last weekend’s RM/Sotheby’s
Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction at the automaker’s North American headquarters and Experience Center in Atlanta. It ended up selling for $3,415,000 (including buyer's premium), and over $2,900,000 will go to the non-profit Ferry Porsche Foundation. | | PCA—RM/Sotheby’s upcoming sale at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta (link is external) on Saturday is a
groundbreaking Porsche sale. While Ferrari and Aston Martin have a long history of collaborating with auction companies to present “works” sales at Maranello and Newport Pagnell, Porsche hasn’t done anything like this before. The time seems ripe. |
PCA—As the war was ending, Vu Nguyen’s (gwen) family fled a devastated Vietnam for a chance at a new life in America. As his grandparents were South Vietnamese dignitaries, there was little question of their fate had they stayed when the north swept up the south in the final days of this ugly conflict. Yet past his name and fluency of his family's native language, Vu, the first of his family born here in the States, is as American as apple
pie. Like many Americans, one very big slice of this pie is deeply rooted in his love of cars. And not just Porsche cars. All cars — anything cars, and especially ones in 1/18 scale. | | |
| | PCA—Well, a Rollplay 6V ride-on Macan, a LEGO® Porsche 911 GT3 RS, or a LEGO® Speed Champions Porsche 919 Hybrid! Offer ends tomorrow, October 31.
PCA members can enter the drawing for one of these great prizes by signing up their child or grandchild into the free PCA
Juniors program. |
PCA—Register for Tech Tactics West, either Saturday, December 1 or Sunday, December 2, 2018. Tickets for each day are $75.
Tech Tactics West attendees will be treated to a day of presentations by auto industry experts, including Porsche Cars North America employees. Presentations range from the extremely technical (brake theory,
fuel-injections systems, new model overviews, etc.), to updates on the Porsche market, and theory on upcoming Porsche technologies. This year we'll be hearing from 919 Hybrid EVO Chief Engineer Stephen Mitas!
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| | PCA—Each fall and spring, Porsche Club of America opens a member only raffle, in which you, the member, may purchase entries for a chance to win a brand-new Porsche. For the Fall 2018 Member Only Raffle, the grand prize is a 911 Targa 4 GTS plus $25,000 in cash. |
PCA—When LeAnn Hazlett was growing up, she spent most of her time in her father's car shop, where he has been servicing Porsches exclusively for more than 30 years. Fast forward to today and Hazlett is one of the few, female crew leaders in the Porsche Club of America (PCA) Club Racing Paddock. | | |
2019-2020 PCA National election — cast your vote by Dec. 1 |
PCA—Our club is fueled by volunteers, and every two years PCA National holds an election to inaugurate volunteer members of the Executive Council. The voting
process is important, and we encourage eligible voters to participate in the election of candidates. Members will receive ballots (like the one below) this month with the October issue of Porsche Panorama. Be sure to cast your vote by December 1. | | |
| | Motor Trend—On this episode of Head 2 Head presented by Tire Rack, Jethro Bovingdon and Jonny Lieberman examine two performance cars that at first glance might not look like actual competitors, the Audi TT RS and the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS. |
Car and Driver—Like all good mountain roads, the byways squirming through the Appalachian foothills southeast of Richmond, Kentucky, look as if they were laid out by someone trying to scribble over something else. They barrel helter-skelter across the region's topography, following meandering rivers and tap-dancing along ridgelines. They thread their way past the occasional derelict
car, the sort a goat would be proud to stand atop, but otherwise blissfully few domiciles. They are, in other words, the perfect place to put three 500-hp sports cars to the test. | | |
| | Road & Track—Turn the ignition key in a Porsche 918 Spyder and its engine doesn't fire. It doesn't need to. Instead, two electric motors take care of movement. There's one with 127 horsepower driving the front wheels, another with 154 horsepower sitting between the engine and dual-clutch transaxle powering the rears.
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Petrolicious—Following on from the successful four-cylinder 912 and 914 models, Porsche’s water-cooled front-engine 924 was nevertheless maligned by many so-called Porsche aficionados for its layout and for having too many VW and Audi parts to be a “real’ Porsche. But there are more than a
few people who think it was, and is, a great car. Two of them are Jürgen Barth and Roland Kussmaul.
| | Photo by Robb Pritchard / courtesy Petrolicious |
Oversteer by Autotrader—With a cabin on the lake beside a fantastic driving road, I had the perfect setup for my ideal bachelor party. Instead of the normal festivities, several of my friends brought their hoopties along for my entertainment, including two Lotus Esprits -- and the whole weekend ended up looking like an old Top Gear cheap-car challenge. | | |
| | Road & Track—The Porsche 908 might not have achieved the glory of an overall win at Le Mans like the legendary 917, but talk to racers who drove both, and they'll tell you that this was the sweeter of the two cars. It was built for new regulations in 1968 that called for 3.0-liter engines. |
Autoblog—From the base Carrera all the way to the bonkers GT2 RS, there's a Porsche 911 for any and every enthusiast. The 2018 Porsche 911 Carrera T is one of the newest and is currently the lightest 911 model, ditching things like door handles and some sound-deadening material and using thinner glass to shave pounds here and there. It might not make any more power than a base 911, but with the extensive weight loss program, it doesn't need
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Motor1—We’ve seen the new Porsche 911 quite often. In fact, Porsche doesn’t even seem that interested in hiding the new car anymore, because we’ve seen the 992 series from pretty much every angle. All that remains are a few bits of colored tape covering specific areas, and that will be removed in a month for the new 911’s grand debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. |
Motorsport.com—Webber and Marc Lieb, who was at the wheel of an LMP1-specification 919 Hybrid, drove the 15km from Porsche's
research and development centre in Weissach to the Porsche museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart this morning. | | |
| | Jalopnik—The Porsche 919 Evo is still on its tribute tour through America, with the latest installment in the video series showing it drive up the Pacific Coast Highway. What’s more interesting, though, is that it took a van full of computers, a giant antenna and a team of over 25 people just to get the car rolling. |
Road & Track—Porsche currently offers 24 different versions of the 911, ensuring it has a rear-engine sports car for every taste. But, 24 is, perhaps, too many. After all, it's hard to make sense of it unless you're deep in the Porsche-nerd world. Porsche evidently knows this, so it made a video explaining what each is about. | | |
| | Motor1—The 992 generation of Porsche’s forever-young 911 will debut in one month as of this writing, revealing its updated shape at the Los Angeles Auto Show at the end of November. The car featured in this video, however, will take a bit longer to see the light of day. We’ve seen it before and have every reason to believe it’s the next 911 GT3, and judging by the way this test driver
is planting the skinny pedal, it should be seriously fast. |
Oversteer by Autotrader—I recently had the chance to drive the new Porsche 911 GT2RS, which is just about the most insane vehicle in existence today. Here are the specs: The base price is around $300,000, 0-to-60 is 2.7 seconds, the top speed is 210 miles per hour and it has 700 horsepower and 553 lb-ft of torque. This is a supercar, plain and simple. | | |
| | Jalopnik—Every once in a while, Porsche makes the right combination of revisions, throws together the perfect selection of parts, and comes up with something brilliant. The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring is exactly that. |
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Motor1—The Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 is no secret. We’ve seen the car countless times with little to no camouflage. Porsche isn’t keeping many secrets when it comes to the refreshed Cayman GT4. The latest video doesn’t give us anything new; however, seeing it testing at the Nürburgring in Germany feels special considering Porsche is an iconic German automaker. | | |
| | Road & Track—It may not seem like that long, but the 986-generation Boxster is more than 20 years old; the car debuted in late 1996, showcasing a design that was finalized in 1993. Now, Porsche Classic is restoring first-gen Boxsters with genuine parts from the automaker's vast supplies and upgrades like Porsche's neat integrated navigation and vehicle tracking
systems. |
Jalopnik—We know the upcoming Porsche Taycan electric sedan is seeking to beat the Tesla Model S at its own game, and it’s now been spotted benchmark testing against a Model S P85D in the mountains of Italy on the iconic Stelvio Pass. | | |
The Drive—Porsche has broken ground and laid down the first foundation stone at its upcoming Experience Center at the Hockenheimring race track in Germany, the company announced Monday. | | |
Jalopnik—People pay absurd prices for Porsche restomods, but too often, those pricey, perfect cars languish away in sad collections, only coming out to park at Cars and Coffee. You don’t want that. You want a Porsche “reimagined” by a self-proclaimed redneck instead, complete with a mid-engine LS3 swap from a Cadillac Escalade. Burnouts all day!Read More |
| | 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. |
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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METROVAC partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest |
| | PCA—PCA—We are excited to announce a new partnership with METROVAC for our Porsche Photo of the
Week contest. Starting in October, winners will receive a VAC N BLO 500, a $152.99 value. We will also randomly award a PotW voter each month an Air Force Blaster Sidekick Car and Motorcycle Dryer, a $119.99 value. All you have to do is cast a vote for your favorite Porsche photo! |
Photo by Patrick Hood. Red River Region. "I started out with purchasing my first
Porsche after many years of wanting one and saving up, a brand new 2017 911 Carrera 4S. However, I have always wanted to get a 911 GT3. After many tries at finding a 991.2 GT3 allocation in Canada with no success, I found a wonderful 2015 911 GT3 which I took delivery of in January 2018." 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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