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| | PCA—In the twilight of my high school years, I had a conundrum: How could I drive the best cars without becoming a doctor or lawyer? My answer was automotive journalism, but now there’s a quicker and easier way: classic car rentals.
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PCA—Are YOU ready to Boca?
Important Dates to Remember:
- Parade: July 21-27, 2019 in Boca Raton, Florida
- Parade Registration and Housing Reservations: February 4, 2019 at 12 PM EST
Some registration tips:
- Make sure your PCA.org profile is up to date.
- Do not call the hotel directly regarding reservations.
- If you have questions regarding housing registration, or need help making reservations, please call Porsche Parade Housing Bureau at (877) 484-8984.
| | PCA—Porsche is gearing up in a major way to help reduce range anxiety in its forthcoming electric vehicle, the Taycan, by providing free 350 kilowatt fast-charging for three years and building out
infrastructure in a partnership with EV charging station operator Electrify America. The 350 kW chargers are able to take full advantage of the Taycan’s 800-volt architecture, which means owners can add 60 miles of range in four minutes.
Each Electrify America station will have at least two 350 kW chargers as well as additional chargers up to 150 kW. Stations will be separated by no more than 120 miles, and on average there will be 70 miles between highway stations.
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PCA—Celebrating 30 years of the 964—Porsche Club of America (PCA) welcomes all Porsche clubs, owners, and enthusiasts to the third annual Werks Reunion Amelia Island on March 8, 2019, the Friday preceding the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Membership in PCA is not required to participate in this celebration of Porsche
automobiles. Expect to view a breathtaking array of Porsches at this free-to-spectators event, from rare classics to current models and everything in between. Display your own cherished car in model-specific Porsche Corrals or enter the Porsche Judged Field and compete to win in more than 20 prize categories.
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| | 911cooled Films via YouTube—It was a marvelous day at the PCA LA Concourse d'Elegance at the Petersen! With a great collection of cars, familiar faces, and the most ideal weather, it was nothing short of brilliant.
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Road & Track—Earlier this month Porsche announced it would take the 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport racing in the World Rally Championship's R-GT class. Though it has yet to build a 718 GT4 to R-GT specifications, it has built a previous-generation Cayman GT4 for testing. That car made its debut last weekend during an ice event
in Austria, and it looks like a supremely capable machine.
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The Drive—Flying in the face of multiple previous reports that Porsche's next 911 GT3 would go turbo, 911 boss August Achleitner says the 992-based track variant will stick with the beloved recipe of rear-wheel drive and a naturally aspirated flat-six that revs to at least 9,000 rpm. Thank God.
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| | Motor1—Circuit Ricardo Tormo is a 14-turn mess of mostly flat, late-apex corners that’s no match for Mark Webber and the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S. The former Formula 1 pilot, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, and – to use his native Australian – “top bloke,” makes the Guards Red C4S dance and juke and move as I sit, jaw in my lap, in the passenger seat.
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PCA—The annual Parade Competition Rules (PCRs) set out the rules for competing in Porsche Parade events, including the Concour d'Elegance, TSD Rally, Autocross, and Tech Quiz. Each year, changes are made to the PCRs to account for new cars, new classes of drivers, and to make Parade more enjoyable for
all!
PCA members are invited to comment and provide input on the proposed PCR changes each year. The 2019 proposed changes can be viewed on the Parade Website. The deadline to provide comments and input is January 31, 2019.
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Cars Yeah—Randy Leffingwell is a journalist, author, and photographer. He worked two years for the Kansas City Star, then nine years for the Chicago Sun-Times, and followed that with a year at AutoWeek before moving to Los Angeles and joining the TIMES, where he worked for 11 years. Since
1990, Randy has written and photographed a number of books including American Muscle, Porsche 911: Fifty Years, Mustang: 40 Years, Art of the Corvette and Corvette Seven Generations, as well as Porsche Unexpected, Porsche Turbo and in Porsche: 70 Years. Most of his projects are transportation-oriented, corporate, product histories focusing as much on the individuals who did the work as well as the vehicles they created. These range from
John Deere Tractors to Hot Wheels to the Harley-Davidson Heritage Collection. Since 1995, he has been a full-time book author and magazine contributor. While those of us who love cars know Randy’s work well, he’s also ventured into photographing and writing about barns, lighthouses, California missions, horses, and the wine country.
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Petrolicious—I can’t feel my feet. Despite having two pairs of thermal socks on underneath my winter boots, the nerve endings in my toes have given up and gone into hibernation—I’m pretty sure you could plant a flag through my trotters and I wouldn’t even notice. My fingers have gone numb too, and I’m struggling to hold my
camera steady. I’ve never been this cold before and a quick check of the mercury later would reveal temps somewhere near -18°C after the sun had descended behind the snow-capped peaks that stood sentry around this flat valley in between the Austrian Alps.
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| | Car and Driver—It's natural to question the unknown, especially when there's nothing wrong with the known. Take breakfast: Bacon and eggs work. No, it doesn't matter that the Waffle House dining room looks just like the bathroom. This is delicious. Newness can be intimidating and a little annoying at the morning table, as elsewhere. Sqirl—yep, that's how it's spelled—is a breakfast
spot in the achingly hip Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles that has the following items on its menu: urfa-dusted poblanos, sorrel pesto, whey-fermented lentils, and lacto-fermented hot sauce. Sure, you might recognize some of those words, but only a few millennials with the waxiest handlebar mustaches will understand them all.
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Goodwood Road & Racing via YouTube—It's one of the most astonishing racing cars ever made, one of the weirdest, era defining monsters. The brainchild of Porsche engineers Norbert Singer and Hans Metzger, the Porsche 935/78 was at the height of performance. Made specifically to conquer Le Mans, it raced with authority,
truly going laps around its competition. Hear all about its history and construction, along with its reunion with Jochen Mass as it wowed during the Group 5 Demo at the 76th Members' Meeting.
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| | Petrolicious—A car-themed customized Fender Stratocaster guitar honoring the Cars of the Rock Stars display planned for the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is to be auctioned for charity at the event on March 9. The special class at the concours centers on vehicles and guitars from the personal collection of John Oates, allowing unprecedented access to the instruments Oates played
with the best-selling rock duo of all time, Hall and Oates.
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Jalopnik—Early on a Sunday morning in the canyons above Los Angeles, the parking lot of Newcomb’s Ranch looks like a race track. A who’s-who of high-end hardware at the common coffee and breakfast stop usually has folks fawning over that newest, hottest ride in the lot. But one recent weekend, a bashed-up silver Porsche 911
was getting all the attention.
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| | Business Insider via YouTube—Professional racecar driver Leh Keen enjoys customizing Porsche sports cars for a living. However, these cars are built to handle more than just road races. Keen's "Safari Porsches" work just as well whipping through the mountains and desert as they do on city streets.
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Road & Track—They’re all lined up. First, a tidy brown ’67 coupe, tiptoeing on skinny tires. Then a G-body car from the ‘70s, frog-faced and wider than the last. The 964 beside it, broader still, is all eggplant-purple hips and nineties optimism. The conga line continues: 993, 996, 997, and 991 generations. Finally,
there’s the new one, eighth in line: the 2020 Porsche 911, codenamed 992.
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| | Motor1—Man, you gotta love the German automotive manufacturers! They offer some of the finest and best-engineered products on the market in a constant race to perfection. But, hey – what’s a healthy, fair rivalry without respect and good manners? The auto scene knows perfectly this rule is important and Mercedes-Benz is here to prove it once more.
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The Drive—While most of our readers would likely be opposed to putting an end to the unrestricted autobahn, the majority of actual German citizens don't seem to agree. According to an Emnid institute poll highlighted by Reuters, 52 percent of Germans surveyed said they'd be in favor of a 75 to 87-mile-per-hour speed autobahn
speed limit. Meanwhile, 46 percent were against such regulations.
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Motor Trend—We learned late last year that Porsche would increase production of the Taycan to meet higher-than-expected demand for the electric vehicle that has yet to go on sale. Now, we're learning that boost in production will be quite significant.
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Roadshow by CNET—Three major automakers have invested good money into a startup that could change the way roadside assistance is handled.
The venture arms of BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche have invested a combined $21 million in Urgent.ly, a US-based startup that offers its services in North America, Europe and Asia.
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| | Motor1—As Porsche is slowly preparing itself for the production start of its first-ever all-electric vehicle, the company continues to build its conventional cars at highest quality standards across its entire factory network. We love watching expensive sports and luxury cars being assembled, and we were
especially happy when we stumbled upon this new video from our colleagues at Business Insider.
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The Drive—Porsche has managed to steal some of Tesla's spotlight since announcing its future electric vehicle: the Taycan. The swanky EV aims to deliver the performance and panache that Porsche is already known for, in addition to the electric drivetrain and high-tech persona that's made Tesla so popular in recent years. But
will a super-sports, a.k.a GT3, variant of the Taycan ever exist?
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Jalopnik—I think the whole ethos behind the evolution of the Porsche 911 can be boiled down to, “More of the same, just slightly different.” And it’s easy to trace those differences because the 911 is one of the longest-produced models we currently have. The
interior alone is worth a closer look.
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| | Autoblog—The 2016 Porsche 911 R generated a frenzy when it first launched, since it offered the GT3 RS engine with a then-unavailable manual transmission, plus slick retro touches such as the plaid seats. Only 991 were built, which further fed the frenzy. Reports of million-dollar asking prices circulated, and while we couldn't confirm a car actually sold for that price, 2017 featured
a sale at Mecum for $425,000, and one at RM Sotheby's for 515,200 Euros. All of those prices were well above the car's original MSRP of $184,900. But it seems the frenzy may be dying down.
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Road & Track—There was no lack of heartbreak at this year's Daytona 24. Sure, that's true of every endurance race, but this year was especially challenging.
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| | 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.
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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
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| | PCA—Griot's Garage is sponsoring our Porsche Photo of the Week contest.
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.
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Photo by Scott Besselievre. Intermountain Region. "I went for a drive up the windy road of Little Cottonwood Canyon (just east of Salt
Lake City). The snow was melting and the skies were blue. It made a perfect setting for a few shots of my 2016 Cayman. The curves along the way were the best part of the trip. Can’t believe it took me 60 years to get my first Porsche, but I’m making up for lost time!"
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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e-Brake News
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