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| | PCA—Last week Porsche formally debuted the new 991.2-based 911 Speedster at the New York International Auto Show, months after it made its first appearance at Rennsport Reunion VI in September. We’re happy to report it looks great with the top down, has a 4.0-liter naturally aspirated flat-six largely based on that in the GT3, and will be available only
with a manual transmission.
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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 Spring 2019 Member Only
Raffle, the grand prize is a brand-new 992-generation Porsche 911 Carrera S plus $25,000 in cash. And the best part is that we will likely be giving away more than one grand prize! After the initial 8,500 entries, another Grand Prize will be added for every additional 4,500 entries sold. Raffle entries are $50 (USD) each.
| | PCA—Jason Lisner of First Settlers Region took first place at the PCA Sim Racing Series final race at Daytona International Raceway, followed by Billy Smith, II, of Maverick Region in second, and James
Huth of Hudson Champlain Region in third. Congratulations to the podium finishers!
Round Eight of the PCA Sim Racing Series did not disappoint with close racing, many lead changes, and a photo finish at the checker flag. With all eight races completed, Smith wins the inaugural PCA Sim Racing Series championship.
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| | PCA—Join us at the Porsche Club of America Car Corral for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park, Detroit Michigan, May 31-June 1, 2019. The event will feature the cars of the NTT IndyCar Series, the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship, and the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli. At the PCA Car Corral
Hospitality Tent you can enjoy a cool beverage and watch the racing on our live feed TV monitor. We will also have “Meet and Greet” Porsche teams and driver visits, paddock tours, and raffles. (including a raffle for an IMSA “Hot Pit” Experiences) Kick start your race day on Saturday at the PCA Café with some coffee and donuts, and some special guest appearances.
The PCA Car Corral Hospitality Tent is open to PCA members and Porsche owners with your general race admission ticket.. Just be sure to bring your PCA membership card or proof of Porsche ownership (key, insurance paper etc.).
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Petrolicious—I saw this unique 924S for the first time at the Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles during one of the #MorningShift gatherings held there each month. Aside from the Porsche factory rally cars that get carted around to the big events and display stands, I think it this build was my first encounter with a
transaxle Porsche prepared for less-than-smooth surfaces. In person, the chunky BFG KO2 tires, functional and scarred skid plates, bug-eyed array of rally lights, and integrated winch really set off the otherwise pedestrian styling of the 924 body. It’s certainly not a homely car in stock form, but in the company of hot-rodded 911s and 356s and other classic P-cars, the 924 is usually the one you walk past at a show without much thought.
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| | Autoblog—Like many others before him, Manfred Huber fell in love with a sound. He was about 12 years old when he first heard it, the "chainsaw-like screeching," as he describes it, of a Porsche, and it hooked him for life. As an adult, he realized his dream of owning one, but there was a barrier. Huber was in a wheelchair because he did not have
legs.
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PCA—Phase ll can be tricky, so help it run smoother by:
- Watching the Phase II Registration Webinar. This short tutorial will walk you through the registration process. Watch it now!
- Reading the 2019 Parade Registration Guide. It will answer all of your Parade questions!
Not registered for Parade at all? Complete Phase l. It’s not too late! Housing is available at the Boca Raton Resort.
Porsche Parade, the ultimate PCA experience. See you in Florida!
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| | PCA—Parade Boca Raton pre-sale merchandise will be available for purchase online at www.ParadeStore.org (link is external) until May 31. There will be T-shirts, polos, jackets, and hats embroidered with the Porsche Parade Boca Raton logo. Orders will be shipped prior to Parade (by mid-June). Please note: Pre-Sale merchandise offered will not be available for sale
at Parade.
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| | Motor1—A new Porsche 911 Speedster is finally here after years of waiting and countless spy photos of the droptop's gradual development. All of the German brand's speedsters are significant machines in the company's history, and in light of the latest one's debut, let's look back on these open-roofed models from the past.
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Automobile—Seven years after the Tesla Model S kicked off the premium EV segment, Jaguar launched the I-Pace, but the first such zero-emission vehicles from Germany are only now beginning to emerge into the public sphere. To sample a taste of the electro-Teutonic future, we brought together the Audi e-tron, the Mercedes
EQC, and the Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo (which will become the Taycan Cross Turismo). Welcome to a smog-free parallel universe where three different BEVs reinvent the term waftability.
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| | Motor Trend Channel via YouTube—On this Preview of Head 2 Head Episode 109, presented by Tire Rack, Jethro Bovingdon and Jonny Lieberman test the Porsche GT3 RS and the McLaren 600LT on a particularly balmy, wet California day at Big Willow Springs with Randy Pobst. Can the Porsche dominate in these conditions!
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Car and Driver—With the knowledge that Porsche has baked a hybrid variant into the product plan of the latest 992-generation Porsche 911, the electrical whine and additional forward thrust produced by this modified 991-era 911 Carrera provides a tantalizing glimpse into the future. This is the effect of the Vonnen
Shadow Drive (VSD), an aftermarket hybrid conversion designed by Vonnen Performance that, provided you can justify the not-insignificant cost, integrates a battery and an electric motor into Zuffenhausen's sports car years before the factory gets around to it.
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| | PCA—The rules and regulations set forth herein are the Parade Competition Rules, known as the PCRs. The purpose of the PCRs is to provide for the orderly conduct of all official and unofficial competitive events of the Porsche Parade and to make provisions for participant and spectator safety. Fairness to and among competitors is the goal of the
PCRs.
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| | Team Simpson—Simpson Performance Products has been the preeminent name in motorsports for over 60 years and has built a product platform that is
synonymous with quality and safety. If you have great safety equipment and you are confident it will keep you safe, you will go faster behind the wheel. Simpson allows racers to continuously push the boundaries of speed in their Porsches while staying safe.
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Motor1—The Porsche 911 is an absolute terror on the track. We know this, and actually, just about a month ago we were talking about a 911 on the very track pictured above. It’s Road Atlanta, which as you can probably surmise by the name is located not far from the major southern U.S. metropolis in Braselton, Georgia. At
2.4 miles it’s not an endurance monster like the Nürburgring is, but Road Atlanta is a technical high-speed dynamo featuring difficult turns and a massive straight with a slight right-hand kink that makes even seasoned drivers sweat a bit.
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| | Oversteer by Autotrader—If you're looking for a Porsche but you can't afford a new-ish 911, you obviously aren't alone — but that doesn't mean you should simply give up on your Porsche dreams. You don't have to have a new, or slightly new, 911 in order to have fun in a Porsche — and there's no greater proof of that than the "986"
Boxster.
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Road & Track—Don't let the GT2 RS's 700 horsepower fool you—it wasn't designed for straight-line speed. That giant wing, that stripped-out interior, and those massive front tires are all there to make the car go around a race track as quickly as possible. It held the production-car Nurburgring lap record, after all.
But, as this video demonstrates, it's still hugely capable at the drag strip.
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| | The Drive via YouTube—Six-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx is a legend of motorsports, man of a million stories and a racing philosopher. Spinelli was truly starstruck doing this full-length interview at Classic Car Club Manhattan. A must-listen for fans of classic motorsport.
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Autoblog—Automakers are looking for every way to make their companies more friendly to the environment. While electric vehicles represent the most public-facing plan, there are several other steps manufacturers are trying to build a greener and more sustainable future. Porsche is focusing part of its energy on
offsetting the carbon dioxide released from internal combustion cars it is using, has sold, is selling, and will sell in the near future. All of the company's U.S. fleets will now be carbon-neutral, and a program called Porsche Impact will give customers a chance to offset their carbon emissions.
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Motor Trend—Late last year, Porsche finally took the wraps off the redesigned 2020 911. As we found when we drove it a few months later, the new 911 Carrera S is "thrillingly fast, telepathically responsive, and wonderfully communicative. It's all 911, all the time, yet more approachable and trustworthy at the limit
than ever before." Even if we're not entirely sold on some of the styling changes, a review like that has us anxious to drive other variants. And based on what we can see of the prototype shown here, it won't be long before Porsche introduces the new 911 Targa.
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Carscoops—We’re usually open to all sorts of engine swaps, but understandably, stuffing a giant HEMI V8 into…the front end of a Porsche 911 is way too out there even for the most adventurous.
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| | Motor1—The Porsche 911 GT3 and the even more hardcore GT3 RS have an overall setup with more of an emphasis on corner carving rather than straight-line speed. People still take them to the drag strip, though. This clip from Drag Times highlights just how little difference there is between a GT3 and GT3 RS in a quarter-mile race.
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| | Road & Track—It's not often that a Porsche that competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans come up for sale, so you might want to see this one. It's a 956 that competed in the 1983 running of the race, driven by father-and-son duo Mario and Michael Andretti. It's listed on Classic Driver. You should buy it.
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InsideEVs—Porsche: "Following the successful roll-out of the Porsche Formula E car at the test facility in Weissach at the start of March, the project is now taking its next step, testing at the Calafat racetrack in Spain, where preparations for the coming season in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship enter their next
phase."
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| | Automotive News—Porsche is gearing up to launch the Taycan full- electric sedan, which it promises will be the first of many battery-driven Porsches to come. Executives expect to largely transfer the bulk of the automaker's product range to electric drivetrains by the end of the next decade.
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Bloomberg—Porsche AG is exploring joint projects with Chinese technology giants including Tencent Holdings Ltd., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. to expand digital offerings in its largest market and bolster sales.
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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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- Unlimited Mileage? OK
- Commuting? Now Available
- $0 Deductible? Check
- Or set limits and pile on the savings
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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 Alan Wagner. Milwaukee Region. "This photo was taken in the underground parking
structure beneath the 2001 addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by noted Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava. During the design of the structure, I had the good fortune to work with Dr. Calatrava as the project’s foundation consultant. Since seeing the completed structure, I have thought that it would be a perfect place for photographing a Porsche. However, I put off a visit with my car until recently. I think the dramatic arches supporting the museum above are the perfect,
complementary backdrop for the arched roof line of my Meteor Grey 2007 Cayman S."
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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