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PCA—The Porsche Boxster Spyder was launched in the early 2010s as the final hurrah for the 987-generation roadster, a lightweight sports car that
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over with its good looks and sublime handling. Half a decade later it was followed up by the more powerful but heavier 981-generation Spyder. We've often wondered what they would reveal if driven back to back, and fortunately contributor Nathan Merz had the chance to find out.
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PCA—In Episode 3 of Tech Tactics Live, we install a new steering wheel and steering column switch in a 1987 Porsche 911. Tune in on Saturday, May 2, 2020, at 1 PM EDT. Join us, and be sure to leave comments and questions in the
chatbox.
| | 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 1980 911 SC Targa, 1989 944 S2, 1999 Boxster, and 2004 Boxster.
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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 2020 Member Only Raffle, the grand prize is a Porsche Taycan 4S plus $25,000. Alternatively, winners may also choose $85,000 instead of a car plus $25,000. 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. The raffle closes June 5, 2020.
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PCA—PCA Sim Racing Series 4 concluded with over 100 member racers participating and the series finale at Road America did not disappoint. Click here to watch last Friday’s exciting races.
Congratulations to Series 4 championship class winners Michael Polasek (Northern New Jersey Region) in Pro Class; Kenny Brown (Peachstate Region) in Club Class; Igor Soykher (Chesapeake Region) in Sportsman Class; and Brady McMacken (Oregon Region) in Rookie Class.
PCA Sim Racing promises more sim racing action this summer and fall. If you are interested in getting started in the fun and competitive PCA Sim Racing program, click here for more information.
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| | Porsche Design—Iconic series: P’8685 Hexagon — Uncompromising design, utmost presicion: the new limited-editionPorsche Design P'8685 Hexagon Sunglasses are the perfect fusion of Porsche Design philosophy and the highest level of engineering. The iconic design is inspired by the engine block of a sports car: eight hexagon screws hold the front, which is milled out of solid titanium, and give the sunglasses a unique, striking look. The
precision and stability of the construction are emphasized by the exclusive manufacturing process: each frame is crafted by hand. Lightweight temples made of high-performance RXP® and polarized lenses offer superb wearing comfort and perfect vision on the road. The best-engineered piece of eyewear you’ll probably ever own. The Iconic P’8685 is limited to 911 pieces worldwide.
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PCA—Working on your own Porsche can be daunting if you've never done it before, so in our series Tech Tactics Live, we'll be regularly broadcasting DIY car projects live. In the second episode, which aired last Saturday, we performed paint chip repair with call-in guests Steve Bode of Paint Craft and Tony Pando of Dr. Color Chip.
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PCA—Don’t miss out on any of last weekend’s Virtual California Festival of Speed Porsche sim racing and Porsche-related interviews.
Three exciting Porsche races with over 80 sim racers were held on the virtual Auto Club Speedway. Viewers commented this was some of the best racing they’ve ever seen! Interviews included Patrick Long, Rod Emory, Jeff Zwart, Jonny Lieberman, Erik Skirmants, Ray Shaffer, Tony Callas and many, many more!
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PCA—Every year across Porsche Club of America, members are making a difference with many heartwarming and thoughtful acts of kindness. This week's edition of Members Making a Difference highlights just a few of the things several PCA Regions and members are doing around the country to help others during the covid-19 pandemic.
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THANK YOU To Our PCARMARKET Community!
At PCARMARKET, we have seen a tremendous spike in activity and our Community Engagement has Never Been Stronger! We wanted to take the opportunity to say THANK YOU to our incredible users who are the key ingredient for such activity. Thank you for participating in our Virtual Car Show which has sparked international competition and for bidding on charity auctions from well-known artist, Tanja Stadnic. Both the Virtual Car
Show and Tanja auctions will benefit "Feeding America,” a wonderful charity dedicated to helping those suffering from COVID-19.
| | If you haven't already, be sure to enter your Porsche in our Virtual Car Show (it is free to enter) while there is still time and PCARMARKET will donate $2 to Feeding America per car entered! Special thanks to HAGERTY Insurance for joining us to match this donation! Your participation fuels our passion and contributes to a great cause at the same time. We look forward to seeing your Porsche submitted along with over 400 cars entered that have joined the show!
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| | PCA—Bill Sholar was a successful commercial artist in his mid-fifties when he founded Porsche Club of America, and he had an interesting life before and after his time with the club. Born in 1901, he attended New York University during the roaring twenties. He earned money as a dancer in Broadway shows and a part time bootlegger! He met his wife of 56 years, Virginia, on Broadway, where she was a professional dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies.
By the 1950s, the Sholars had moved to Alexandria, Virginia. Bill had an advertising art business and Virginia a dancing school.
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PCA—To highlight PCA’s fun and engaging Porsche and PCA exclusive online content, PCA’s National team created a webinar and slideshow featuring PCA’s best digital activities. Eleven PCA activities are explained in depth. Learn more about Rennbow, PCA’s video collection, PCA Sim Racing, PCA Juniors, Members Making a Difference and much more!
The recorded webinar is only 25 minutes, but shares hours of fun national PCA online programs. Watch the webinar at your leisure and follow along with the interactive PDF slideshow. Active links will take you directly to the PCA online content.
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PCA—Due to the novel Coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, automotive events around the world have been postponed or cancelled, and events held by and/or related to Porsche Club of America are no exception. Below is a list of PCA National and Porsche-related events and their current statuses. We will update this page as more information becomes available. PCA National-hosted events
are in bold.
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| | Carfection via YouTube—Henry Catchpole reviews one of RPM Technik's bespoke 911 CSR builds.
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PCA—If you own a vintage Porsche, you're going to want to see this. The company has just released the newest version of its retro-inspired radio head unit, designed to give your old P-car modern connectivity features, including Bluetooth, navigation, and for the first time, Apple CarPlay.
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| | Motor1—Although not as capable as its immediate predecessor, the second-generation Porsche Cayenne still boasts a reasonable amount of off-road capability, especially compared to other luxury crossovers. But as a recent YouTube video from Hoonigan AutoFocus proves, there’s more fun to be had in the Cayenne once Porsche tuner E-Motion Engineering had its way with a rare diesel version of the SUV.
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Cars with Luke via YouTube—On this Sunday I wanted to get outside and create something with no plan and that's exactly what I did. Hope you all enjoyed something a little different and if we hit 5k Thumbs up that means I will make more like this over the summer.
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| | Autocar—I’m not a biker and never have been. I have known too many friends and family members whose lives have been changed by parting company with such devices.
My father was an avid biker who avoided injury by mastering what he called the ‘elective dismount’. Three times he saved himself by bailing out on his own terms in advance. And I just don’t have that talent.
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Jalopnik—Grab your smartphone and head for the coat closet, because things are about to get loud, a little scary, and potentially quite messy. You’ll want some privacy for this one. This incredible head to head battle between a pair of evenly matched vintage Porsche 911 racers is bound to have you squealing with joy for the next seven minutes.
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and Driver—The Turbo S moniker is often reserved for the hottest version of a Porsche model. The iconic Porsche 911 is no different, combining the best of Porsche’s performance prowess in a costly package. The video above shows a beautiful blue 991.1 911 Turbo S (2013-2016) rocketing down the Bahrain International Circuit drag strip.
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Road & Track—Back in December, Porsche invited us out to Sonoma Raceway to drive a handful of classic sports cars from the company's museum, along with their modern counterparts. I decided to take the long way there. Fly to Los Angeles, get away from crappy New York winter weather, and head up the coast, with a few diversions inland.
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| | Autocar—We already knew the Porsche Taycan Turbo is a sensational four-wheel drive all-electric saloon car, having driven one in the USA, on UK roads and even on the continent in a three-way shootout with two other game-changing grand tourers.
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Car and Driver—The new 992-generation Porsche 911 enters its second model year in the U.S. with a few new features and a striking new Python Green exterior color, pictured above. Options from the higher-end Turbo and Turbo S models are now available on the lower-end Carrera trim levels, and additional driver-assistance features are offered.
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| | Automobile—Remember the final 991-generation Porsche 911 Speedster that the company auctioned through RM Sotheby's for COVID-19 relief? Well, the bids are in, the dust has settled, and after fees and taxes are taken care of, Porsche matched the $500,000 winning bid to ensure United Way Worldwide's Community Response and Recovery Fund will have a cool $1 million to assist those affected by the ongoing global pandemic.
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The Drive—The Porsche Cayenne may have a reputation as a fancy kid-hauler, grocery-getter, and darling of the domestic sphere, but that's not what Porsche built it for. Let's just say that if your kid's school drop-off zone is on the other side of Russia, you'll be okay.
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| | Hagerty—One step beyond Safari 911s and Ruf’s idea of a desert stormer is another emerging modification trend—lifting classic Porsches to the heights of Paris-Dakar 953s. The 953 was a short-lived rally 911 eventually succeeded by the 959-based racers that would prove off-road champions. With its extensive expertise in suspensions and expanding wheel travel, German spring specialist H&R has the know-how to properly execute a lifted vintage
911 project like the Syberia RS.
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Hoonigan AutoFocus via YouTube—If you’ve been around for some of the early features on Autofocus, the workmanship on this car might look familiar to you… and for good reason. S Klub, the same shop that kicked out the infamous Slang500 Mercedes SL, is the shop that made this off-the-wall swap you see here. Purists, look away… but there’s a Subaru EJ207 where the old carb’d unit used to live.
But to those who enjoy driving, it makes total sense. While it’s from a totally different manufacturer, it’s still a flat 4. Except with a whole lot more power and reliability.
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and Driver—Furious typing of shock-and-awe responses from every corner of the automotive internet immediately followed the release of the Porsche Taycan's lackluster EPA range. At just 201 miles for the Turbo, and 192 for the Turbo S, Porsche's electric sedan is more than 100 miles behind a comparable Tesla Model S in this important metric.
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Autoweek—James Watt, a Scottish engineer and designer of an enhanced steam engine in the late 18th century, gets credit for the term horsepower. He measured how much weight a horse could pull in a minute and found it to be a little over 32,500 pounds of force. He then rounded up and divided by 60 to get 550 pounds per second. And, voila, horsepower.
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| | Autoblog—I must admit that I was a bit nervous when I began my EV test loop in the 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S, the ink barely dry on its EPA range rating of 203 miles. I’d run this very same test some two months ago in a 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo, and the result of that prior test was remarkable. Perhaps too remarkable.
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Roadshow by CNET—Working on cars can be tough, even for professional mechanics. As vehicles become more technologically advanced and more tightly packaged, that difficulty goes up. That's why Porsche came out with the Tech Live Look augmented repair assistance technology to help its mechanics at dealerships.
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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 needed.
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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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Photo by Thomas Emr Hill. Hill Country Region. "Here is a photo of my 2015 Cayman in front of the post office in a quintessential small Texas town. I think it is a nice juxtaposition of a newer Porsche, against a rustic old building, under a gnarly old oak tree. This is my
first Porsche (the best car I’ve ever owned). I joined PCA shortly after it was delivered in May 2015. I enjoy all the events and activities that my Hill Country Region offers, especially the drives. So much so that I volunteer whenever I can."
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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