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PCA—It was only a matter of time before Porsche started selling a 911 Turbo based on the 992-generation car, though this time
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flagship with the Turbo S, announced today with 640 horsepower and the ability to crush zero-to-60 miles per hour in just 2.6 seconds, storm the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds, and top out at 205 miles per hour. Let’s all remember not too long ago the Carrera GT supercar had a top speed of 205 mph, though it was slower in all other regards.
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PCA—Hard on the heels of the Scottsdale sales come the Amelia Island sales. Little in the way of good news has happened since Arizona, with fears of a global pandemic jolting the world equities markets. In this atmosphere, it
will take some truly special cars to catch the attention of nervous buyers. Here are five that we think have a pretty good chance of changing hands at or near their pre-sale estimates.
| | 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 and guest contributors pick what they think
are the "freshest" Porsches currently available, and then attempt to explain their reasoning. Up this week are a 1985.5 944, 2005 Cayenne Turbo, and 2019 911 GT3 RS.
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| | PCA—Join us at the New York International Auto Show to experience another exceptional moment in Porsche history. As a Porsche owner and PCA member, you will have access to an exclusive event taking place the morning of Friday, April 10, 2020, in the Porsche display area to view a full array of Porsche models, including a North American Premiere & unveiling before it’s shown to the general public. Space is limited and there will be no
registrations on-site. Please note that this is a non-refundable event. Act quickly once registration opens — this event sells out very quickly!
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PCA—In the coming weeks, Porsche Club of America members will be taking to the virtual race track in iRacing to compete in the first racing season of 2020: Series 4. For the uninitiated, The PCA Sim Racing Series gives PCA members the ability to compete in some of the most exciting Porsche race cars at world-famous race tracks, all from the comfort of their homes.
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| | PCA—Porsche Club of America members enjoy the sensation of traveling in our favorite vehicle. Freedom and mobility in our Porsche makes life special. PCA Sierra Nevada Region’s charitable mission is to bring this same feeling to children and adults with special needs.
The Sierra Nevada Region adopted AMBUCS/AMTRYKE as their charity in 2016. AMBUCS/AMTRYKE is a 501c3 charity that builds adaptive bicycles and tricycles for children and adults. AMBUCS/AMTRYKE is an all-volunteer organization, with a local chapter in Reno/Sparks, Nevada, that has built over a hundred bikes for clients at no charge.
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Motor Trend Channel via YouTube—In just over 20 years, Porsche went from building its first 911s to creating the moonshot 959, replete with all-wheel drive, adjustable suspension, and a turbocharged flat-six that, in race capacity, was tuned to 800 horsepower. At the offer of Porsche, who flew over two museum specimens for the occasion, MotorTrend’s Jonny Lieberman does his best to track from
one 1960s icon to a legend of the 1980s.
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PCA—To help you prepare to register for Banquets, Events, Tours, and More, we’re hosting PCA RegionFocus Webinar #25 in preparation for Phase ll registration, which opens March 31.
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Title: Everything You Need To Know About Parade Phase ll Registration
Date: Tuesday March 17
Time: 9:00 PM EDT/8:00 PM CDT/6:00 PM PDT
Sign Up: Watch for signup information/link in your email or contact Todd Benz, PCA RegionFocus Coordinator at RegionFocus@pca.org
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Jalopnik—Once upon a time, they put a four-cylinder in the 2019 Porsche Boxster GTS. This was widely regarded as a bad idea and everyone hated it, so Porsche has already brought back the flat-six. But I didn’t drive the new one. I drove the one everyone likes to hate.
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Visit PCARMARKET at the Amelia Island Porsche Werks Reunion this Friday, March 6th.
What amazing experience this past weekend was meeting our fellow enthusiasts at this year’s LA Lit Show. We were humbled with all the positive feedback and support we have received from our fellow enthusiasts. We hope to see you this Friday at the Amelia Island Porsche Werks Reunion (fairway 10 /booth #17). Be sure to visit our booth and ask for your complementary gift!
PCARMARKET is quickly becoming the online destination for all-Porsche, all-the-time auctions. Be sure to check out these exceptional Porsches currently Live and Ending Soon on PCARMARKET:
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Hagerty—When looking for a fun-to-drive drop-top, Keith Hamersma was pretty focused. It had to be a Porsche 911. Certainly, there are many options for open-air driving, but Hamersma fell in love with the 911 decades ago, so when he finally reached a point in his life where he could afford one, he really didn’t have a choice.
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Porsche, the car’s abilities exceeded Drew’s high expectations. But there was something missing.
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PCA—Super Sebring returns again this year March 18-21. The double header weekend feature the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) 68th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts on Saturday March 21, preceded by the FIA World Endurance Championship 1,000 Miles of Sebring on Friday, March 20. The doubleheader endurance race weekend brings together the
world’s two leading sports car racing championships at North America’s oldest and most historic road racing facility.
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| | Autoblog—Utter darkness. It is around 6 p.m. in the Arctic Circle and blowing fat tufts of snow. The LED headlamps on the Porsche Carrera 4S barely pierce the icy path, a steeply pitched logging road. Yet I’m full-blast on the gas, eyes straining, realizing just in time that a closing-radius switchback turn is fast approaching.
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Motor Authority—Germany's Gemballa is famous for building some of the fastest Porsches on the planet, and soon the company will test the waters with a supercar of its own.
This is not that car.
Marc Philipp Gemballa, the son of Gemballa founder Uwe Gemballa, has started a car company under his own name and will reveal the first product on March 4.
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| | Autoblog—Having expanded the facilities at Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur specifically to service expanded customization demand for the Taycan, the Stuttgart automaker won't be shy about showing off what its specialists can do. The brand took to Facebook to show off pictures of its SportDesign Package Carbon for the Taycan Turbo all-electric sport sedan, giving us a better look at one of the three packages Exclusive Manufaktur announced last
month.
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Hagerty—Delivered at the main factory in Zuffenhausen, the “Werk 1” Porsche Taycan, a 4S in Carmine Red, went to a certain Florian Böhme on his 43rd birthday. Factory delivery is much of a special occasion in 2020 as ever, since the opportunity has been open to Porsche customers for seven decades now. However, from 1950 until well into the ’70s, the handover took place right outside the
factory, often with a glass of bubbly at hand.
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| | Motor1—It may only be the “baby Cayenne,” but the Porsche Macan in Turbo guise does borrow the twin-turbo 2.9-liter V6 from its bigger brother. That gives it an extra 10 percent power output over its predecessor even though the engine’s displacement has gone down by 20 percent compared to the old Macan Turbo. Now with a meaty 435 horsepower and 550 Newton-meters (354 pound-feet) of torque, the range-topping version of Porsche’s smaller
crossover delivers top-notch performance as demonstrated in the adjacent video.
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Drive—Volkswagen's latest reveals ahead of the 2020 Geneva Motor Show have one thing in common: features lifted straight from VW's corporate cousin Porsche. As a result, we thought we’d ask the masses—What should VW raid from the Porsche parts bin next?
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Motor1—If you want a bonkers twin-turbocharged Porsche 911, you buy a GT2 RS, right? Wielding a 3.8-liter flat-six with 700 horsepower (522 kilowatts), it’s one of the quickest street-legal cars you can buy and an absolute monster on a race track. By comparsion, the 520-hp (388-kW) GT3 RS is also a track superstar, and the soundtrack produced by its naturally aspirated 4.0-liter six at 9,000
rpm is borderline supernatural.
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| | Autoblog—Porsche is recalling previous-generation Macan crossovers due to the potential risk of a fuel leak and the subsequent fire risk the leak could create. The recall includes 70,117 Macans, but Porsche believes only one percent of the vehicles have defective parts that will require action.
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Reuters—German prosecutors searched sports carmaker Porsche’s offices on Wednesday as part of an ongoing probe into a diesel emissions scandal, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
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Business Insider—With its rich racing heritage and sports-car reputation, Porsche's made quite the name for itself. But this year, the company ran its first Super Bowl ad in 23 years in an effort to reach a new customer base.
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| | Bloomberg—Porsche Chief Executive Officer Oliver Blume discusses the transformation to electric engines, competition with Tesla Inc., and the impact of the coronavirus on China sales. He speaks from Stuttgart, Germany, on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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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. Starting with the October monthly recap, 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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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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