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PCA—As we’ve mentioned in the past, Scottsdale car week is the New York Mercantile Exchange of the classic car world, only instead of frozen concentrated orange juice and pork bellies, it’s muscle cars, vintage SUVs, Ferraris, and, of course, Porsches. No concours, vintage races, or new car reveals. Just pure unadulterated commerce. And because of its timing in January, it’s used as somewhat of a gut
check for the market as a whole. The expectation is that it will feel much like Monterey did back in August, with a little more air coming out of the market and the gap between the true #1 condition cars and the driver-quality #3 cars further widening. As always though, there are more than a couple of interesting Porsches consigned at the various sales. Here are five that more-or-less randomly caught our gaze.
| | PCA—Together with RM Sotheby's and the Porsche Club of America, Hagerty invites you to an intimate seminar all about Porsches. Our expert panelists will
discuss the best Porsches for handling, performance, road trips, track days, and overall value.
McArthur Ballroom at The Biltmore
2400 E. Missouri Ave.
Phoenix, AZ, 85016
Friday, January 17, 2020
8:30 - 9:30 am seminar
9:30 - 10 AM Q&A
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| | PCA—Join us in Colorado Springs as we tour the spectacular roads surrounding the legendary BROADMOOR resort. Situated at the base of one of the most famous American Mountains, Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs is the ultimate driving getaway for enthusiasts and explorers alike. PCA Treffen will take place over April 29-May 2, 2020 and includes 2 days of touring the Rocky Mountains, and a Navigator’s Day Off to enjoy the resort or participate in
local activities. Event information, including tour and activity descriptions, can be found at treffen.pca.org. Registration will open on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM (EST). Keep checking the website and e-Brake for additional details and announcements.
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| | 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 1968 912, 1973 914, 1995 968, and 2006 Cayenne S.
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FIA Formula E—Porsche has two 99X race cars entered in this weekend’s Santiago Formula E-Prix. Formula E is the only event in the world that lets fans play an active role in influencing the outcome of the race. FANBOOST gives fans the opportunity to vote for their favorite driver and award them an extra boost of power during the race. The five drivers with the most FANBOOST votes are awarded a
significant burst of power, which they can deploy in a 5-second window during the second half of the race. Let’s show our PCA spirit by voting for either Porsche factory driver, ANDRÉ LOTTERER or NEEL JANI. You can vote once a day right up until fifteen minutes into the race itself. André Lotterer finished the Saudi Arabia season opener in second place with the help of a FANBOOST voted by PCA members!
Vote here!
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| | PCA—PCA welcomes all members and Porsche owners to the PCA Car Corral Hospitality Tent at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona at Daytona International Speedway, January 24, 25 and 26. The PCA Hospitality tent is located trackside and infield at "The Kink" (Turn 5). There will be interviews with Porsche drivers, updates from Porsche Motorsports North America, paddock tours and more. Don’t miss your chance to win one of the special drawings, such as a
guided IMSA Hot Pit Experience during the races. (Must be present to win, 18 years of age or older.) You can also relax in the tent and watch the races on large screen television monitors.
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PCA—Porsche Parade is PCA's biggest event and you don't want to miss it!
When: June 21-27, 2020
Where: La Quinta Resort, A Waldorf Astoria Resort near Palm Springs, California
Phase I Registration, where you sign up for Parade and reserve your accommodations, opens January 28 at 12 Noon EST.
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| | PCA—Celebrating 50 years of the Porsche 914. PCA welcomes all Porsche clubs, owners, and enthusiasts to the fourth annual Werks Reunion Amelia Island on March 6, 2020. Join us at our new location: Amelia River Golf Club. 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. Judged Field registration sold out!
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Issimi Official via YouTube—Onboard POV of Randy Pobst, SCCA Hall-of-Fame race car driver, lap Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in a 2020 Ford Mustang GT500 CFTP against a 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. (Ed.: Watch the full Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 comparison test here.)
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Reviews via YouTube—Winter tyres help cars stay mobile in wintery and snowy conditions, but at what price? Due to the siping needed for the winter tires to work in snow and ice, a winter tire often makes a cars steering feel light and vague, which is the last thing you want on a supercar like the Porsche 992 911 Carrera 2S.
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Grassroots Motorsports—Every Porschephile is familiar with the notion of RS. The marque’s Rennsport models are modestly (and sometimes not-so-modestly) disguised race cars built for the street and track.
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Gear via YouTube—Jason and Karun go head to head in the latest Porsche 911 and Mclaren 570S.
Watch all three videos below:
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Road & Track—Want to confuse a bunch of people at your next local car meet? We can't think of a better way to do it than this Pontiac Fiero. It's been treated to a comprehensive Porsche body conversion kit, wearing the face of a 996-generation 911, a roof scoop, and a set of GT2 RS side decals. It's for sale right now on Craigslist in New York.
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Luftgekühlt Diplomacy in the Cold War
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PCA—In the 1980s, when the Berlin Wall still partitioned east from west, the local Region of PCA — yes, there really was such a thing — assembled 20 Porsches for a tour of the city’s Soviet sector. We’re working on an article for an upcoming issue of Porsche Panorama and would like to hear from anyone who was part of the group. Please send an email to Damon Lowney:
damonl@pca.org
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Motor Trend—This is it. The cheapest new Porsche you can buy. The 2020 Porsche Macan starts at $52,250, including destination, a little over half what you'll pay for a base 911 Carrera. What that gets you is a premium compact SUV powered by a 248-hp turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a description that could equally be applied to an AWD Lincoln Corsair that's about $12,000 cheaper. Is the
Porsche badge really worth that much more?
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Carfection via YouTube—'If you want to build something, build it how you want it.'
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Driver—If you're looking for further confirmation from Porsche headquarters that the current hybrid lineup represents more than just compulsory regulatory vamping, consider this statement from Christian Trautmann, manager of Porsche's SUV product line: "From here on, we hope to make the highest-performing top model of a given Porsche product lineup a hybrid." That means the ridiculous 541-hp 2019 Cayenne Turbo is now the beta dog, following the lead of the new 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo
S E-Hybrid plug-in in price, prestige, and performance.
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Hagerty—When it debuted at the 1985 Frankfurt Auto Show, the Porsche 959 heralded the future of supercars. It had the comfort and practicality of a 911 but was equipped with all-wheel drive and a ferocious, 444-horsepower 2.85-liter flat-six. If you were a kid in the 1980s, you probably spent many a recess arguing which was best: Porsche’s techno-wizardry or the stripped-out insanity of the
Ferrari F40. However, unless your name happens to be Jerry Seinfeld or Bill Gates, the 959 would always be a car on a poster, not in your garage.
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| | Autoweek—Plugging in my phone every night is easy. And I don’t mind doing it. In fact, I don’t think much about it. It’s second nature, really. But plugging in this Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid, on the other hand, delivers a totally different sensation altogether. Here I am in a vehicle built by the same folks who brought us the 356, the 911, and the all-conquering 917 endurance race car, and I am treating it just like my phone.
Weird.
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Hagerty—If you’re a bit rusty on Alois Ruf’s work, get up to speed by remembering that it was RUF who gave the 911 a five-speed gearbox long before Porsche did. The company also gained the German manufacturer’s status, having come up with a number of engine, gearbox, and chassis design patents throughout the decades, including the latest in carbon-fiber tech. In terms of build quality, handling, and
performance, RUF went where the bigger Porsche factory just couldn’t in mass production. And once RUF came up with the world’s fastest car with the help of two turbochargers, there was just no stopping the 1987 Yellowbird’s crew.
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Garage via YouTube—The Porsche Carrera GT was first shown in concept form in September 2000 and I was there. This video gives you an insight of that amazing reveal and then what's it like to drive on road and how it compares to its rivals, including the McLaren F1.
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| | Inside EVs—Here is something that might be very important and tempting for the bulk of Porsche customers, the acceleration of the top of the line Porsche Taycan Turbo S.
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Top Gear—In a world of increasing complication, Porsche’s boss has promised Top Gear his firm will keep building straightforward drivers’ cars as long as people want them.
“We will continue with our puristic sports cars – GT3, GT3 RS, GT2 RS, and our T models,” says CEO Oliver Blume. “You can even get them without a radio. With a manual transmission and all of that. We will reduce up to a minimum.”
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| | Worth—For more than 60 years, if you asked someone to sketch the outline of a Porsche, they could do it—or for longer, if you include 1939’s Volkswagen Beetle and Type 64, the ur-Porsche that laid the streamlined groundwork for the classic 911 sports car.
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| | Cars.com—The Porsche Cayenne got a total overhaul for 2019. This redesign left the luxury mid-size SUV all but unchanged on the outside — but with new engine options and a fresh interior, the driving experience in the Cayenne is totally new. The third-generation Cayenne competes with the likes of the Audi Q5, BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class, but outstanding performance specs really put it in a league of its own when it comes to the ride.
However, even a luxury SUV needs to be more than that. Many of the Cayenne’s competitors feature more standard safety features and more user-friendly multimedia systems — all for lighter price tags.
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The Sun—IF you want the best-looking, best-handling electric car in the world, your search stops here.
Because this, my friends, is the Porsche Taycan 4S.
Show me anything better and I’ll buy you a pint.
It’s also a bit of a bargain.
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Drive—Too many classic cars have become so valuable that only one-percenters can afford to park them in their garage. Scale models have always been a way for enthusiasts to get their hands on pieces of automotive history, but many are just hunks of plastic or metal without much detail. That is very much not the case with this impeccably-crafted Porsche 356 recreation, though, as it looks to have more moving parts than we’ve ever seen in miniature.
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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 Michael S. Young. California Central Coast Region. "Here’s a photo of my 991.2 GT3 taken last year on CA Route 58 just north of the Carrizo Plains National Monument in San Luis Obispo County, CA.
"We broke off from a tour sponsored by the California Central Coast Region of Zone 8. The mist and rain made it difficult to approach or even see any of the superbloom wildflowers, which have been spectacular all around the state."
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
I hope you enjoyed this issue of Porsche Club of America's e-Brake News. If you have any questions or comments, please contact:
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Digital Media Coordinator & e-Brake News Editor
damonl@pca.org
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