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| | PCA—Each fall and spring, PCA opens a member raffle, in which the grand-prize winners receive a brand-new Porsche. This time we gave away five Porsches, including a 718 Cayman GT4, 718 Spyder, and three 718 Cayman/Boxster Ts. Find out who the winners are and watch us surprise two winners!
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PCA—My two-car garage has two SUVs. Call me typically American, as we Americans simply love our SUVs. Porsche has now long understood this, capitalizing on it with its introduction of the Cayenne in 2003, followed by the
smaller, more agile Macan in 2014. While the Cayenne is more likely an American’s idea of an SUV, the Macan is much closer to an actual Sport Utility Vehicle.
| | PCA—PCA Regions give back to their communities in amazing ways. One such charitable effort includes man’s best friend! The PCA Maverick Region is supporting America Veterans by contributing funds to train service dogs for
veterans and people with disabilities.
The idea to adopt Patriot PAWS(link is external) as a non-profit organization for Maverick Region fundraising was presented by Don Sebert, who was introduced to the organization through his membership in another organization. Don introduced the idea to the Maverick Region Board of Directors, who embraced it wholeheartedly.
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| | PCA—PCA Sim Racing is back for more exciting simulated racing in 2020. After the immensely successful inaugural year, PCA Sim Racing will host Series 4 (spring) and Series 5 (fall) in 2020. The eight-race Series 4 kicks off Friday, March 6 on some of North America’s best race tracks and for the first time will also race on two international circuits. Each driver will race identically prepared Porsche 911 RSRs with customized race setups for
each track provided by new partner Virtual Racing School (VRS). Click to see the race schedule or click to sign up today. If you’re interested in getting started in PCA Sim Racing, click getting started for more information.
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PCA—Tech Tactics East 2020 will once again be hosted at the PCNA Training facility in Easton, PA. This facility trains Porsche technicians on the intricacies of new Porsches while at the same time providing valuable training on the Porsches of old. Equipped with state-of-the-art classrooms with lifts and drive train assemblies, the training facility is perfect for this hands-on type of
event.
Attendees will be treated to a day of presentations by auto industry experts, including PCNA Field Specialists, PAG Project Managers, members of the PCA Technical Committee, and representatives from other companies such as Michelin, LN Engineering, and Total Seal.
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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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PCA—You've worked hard on designing and managing your web presence, now it's time to show it off! The National Website Contest is a fun opportunity to bring some recognition to your Region of the club, and we encourage you to participate
The contest is organized into five classes based on the size of your Region. Each class will have its own ranked winners. There will also be an overall winner. In addition to the Region classes, there will also be a class for the Zone web sites as well, allowing the Zone webmasters to compete.
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| | Motorweek via YouTube—Enjoy this sweet Porsche 356 bonus retro (taped on 2.22.1983) just for being a subscriber. If you're not a subscriber then punch that button and buckle up! 2020 is going to be insaaaane as we start to dip more in to the mid to late 90's while still keeping it real with the RAD 80's. We'll see ya next time on MotorWeek! (Ed.: This video was made with the help of two former Chesapeake Region members during the
Region's Chesapeake Challenge, one of the longest-running Region events in the club.)
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PCA—Attention all Region Officers and Newsletter Editors
The 2020 National Newsletter Contest is now open and will run through March 1, 2020.
Click here to enter: 2020 Newsletter Contest Entry Form
The Newsletter Contest is a great opportunity to bring National recognition to your region. You’ve worked hard all year, now it’s time to show it off!
The contest is organized into 6 classes based on Region size. Each class will have its own ranked winners. The Betty Jo Turner trophy will be presented to the Overall winner. Winners will be announced, and trophies presented at the Porsche Parade.
The contest is for issues published from January 2019 through December 2019.
Areas of judging will include:
- Information and Navigation
- Overall Layout and Appearance
- Editorial Commentary
- Photography and Artwork
- Features and Articles from members
- General Scope and Variety
For details or questions contact the National Awards Chair:
Michael Soriano at Awards@pca.org
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PCA—Porsche Parade housing registration (Phase 1) is now open.
Parade Dates: June 21-27, 2020
Parade Location: La Quinta Resort, A Waldorf Astoria Resort near Palm Springs, California
Housing questions should be sent to the Porsche Parade Housing Bureau at 877-484-8984 or
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PCARMARKET is enjoyed by many people in many different ways. It may be the gateway to hit the open road in the car of your dreams, the joy of acknowledging your success, or it may be the opportunity to check off a bucket list item. All of these emotions combined with the excitement of bidding amongst Porsche brand-loyal aficionados is an experience in itself.
Whether you are looking to buy, sell, or watch the action, PCARMARKET has something new and exciting daily for all admirers of the marque. PCARMARKET……The World is Watching
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Car and Driver—The electric 2020 Porsche Taycan does everything fast. In Turbo S trim, it rips to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds on its way to a claimed top speed of 162 mph. A prototype Taycan lapped the infamous 12.8-mile Nürburgring circuit as quickly as a 2016 Cayman GT4. Put to use in the real world, the electric Porsche will even refill its 93.4-kWh battery from 5 to 80 percent in just 22 minutes
or so at the most powerful charging stations.
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Trend—Porsche landed itself a 60-second Super Bowl commercial slot this year, its first time advertising during the game in a long, long time, and it didn't waste the opportunity. Its spot was a cinematic car chase dubbed "The Heist," in which a new Taycan Turbo S EV goes missing from the Porsche museum in Stuttgart, Germany—and the facility's security staff gives chase in a gaggle of historical Porsche models, from a 917K Le Mans racing car to a 918 Spyder to even the blue 911 Carrera
S from the new Bad Boys III movie.
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Adweek—Tonight’s Super Bowl ad for Porsche—60 seconds of twisty roads, growling engines and epic driving created by agency Cramer-Krasselt—was pretty much the sort of sleek production you’d expect from a pricey German nameplate equipped to buy into America’s priciest air time. But while “The Heist,” which featured security guards in hot pursuit of a thief who’d stolen a new Taycan Turbo S from
the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, was good fun, it was also a monumental step for Porsche that, like many of its competitors, finds itself in a fast-changing market.
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| | Hagerty—Visitors of the revived GP Ice Race at Zell am See, home of the Porsche family’s farm in Austria, will have not one, but two Singer spectacles to enjoy.
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Motor Trend via YouTube—World’s Greatest Drag Race is back for the ninth time, bigger and better than ever! Once again, the MotorTrend team descends upon the runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base with a dozen of the hottest, quickest, and most powerful new cars on the market for one reason—a big, fat, crazy drag race!! See the Toyota Supra, McLaren Senna, Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, Porsche 911
Carrera S, Jaguar XE SV Project 8, Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4MATIC+, BMW 850i xDrive, Bentley Continental GT V8, BMW M2 Competition, Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, Lamborghini Urus, and the Dodge Challenger Hellcat Red Eye Widebody face off in epic quarter-mile and half-mile sprints for the ultimate bragging rights.
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Autoblog—Automakers ranging from hypercar specialists to mass-market budget brands have created Vision GT concepts for Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo. Porsche for various reasons, remains a conspicuous absence among the list of contributors to that most conceptual of realms. A report in Car magazine says the situation will change sometime in "the next few months," when Porsche releases a
Vision GT concept for GT Sport. When it arrives, it will join the Taycan Turbo unleashed in the game last November, and the 917 Living Legend concept that's due to be available to players in the first half of this year.
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| | Motor1—A classic muscle car lines up against a much more modern European sports car for a drag race. The results are very interesting.
This 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle SS is far from stock. It packs a massive 9.3-liter (565-cubic-inch) V8 that pumps out a claimed 720 horsepower (537 kilowatts). The gearbox is GM's venerable Turbo 400 automatic, and it runs to a nine-inch rear differential with 3.89-ratio gears.
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Porsche Newsroom—The idea came from Porsche. Ferry Porsche wanted an entry-level Porsche that would give young drivers inexpensive access to the world of Porsche. This alone makes the 914 a typical Porsche. Because he was trying something new. Because the heart of the car, the engine, is mid-mounted. And because the form follows the function. The 914 is typically Porsche, even though it doesn’t
look like it at first glance. But the first known design draft quotes a Porsche that could hardly be more typical and steeped in history – the 550 Spyder.
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and Driver—When we got the go-ahead for a long-term 40,000-mile Porsche Cayenne, we pretty much knew what we wanted. Well, we knew at least whatever configuration we decided on would spark more than a few arguments among our staff. Because one of our favorite things to do is tinker with Porsche's online car configurator, everyone here at C/D HQ had some idea what they wanted, individually. Coming to a consensus took some work.
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USA Today—For generations, Porsche has been known to its loyal fans as a brand with exquisitely designed and engineered sports cars.
Specialty vehicles like the tiny-but-powerful 911 sport coupe have been central to its identity.
But in recent years, the Volkswagen Group luxury brand has transformed itself into a maker of sport utility vehicles brand with lower prices and bigger sales.
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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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| | Motor1—Modern Porsches are often criticized for being way more expensive than most of their direct rivals are. We are not here to judge and make final conclusions, so we’ll just share the facts - an Audi RS5 starts at $75,195 in the United States, while a comparable new 911 Carrera S has a price sticker of $113,300. To put that into perspective, that’s almost 40 grand difference for nearly the same performance. Or is that
true?
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Autoblog—A nondescript white van rolls up beside my blue 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo as I sit at a red light on the Pacific Coast Highway near Huntington Beach, Calif. The driver rolls down his window, gives a hearty thumbs up, and makes it clear via additional hand signals that he wants to see me stand on it. His grinning passenger leans forward and seconds the motion with an enthusiastic
nod.
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Driver—Porsche's slope-shouldered 911 sports car is arguably one of the most recognizable automobiles in the world. It's undergone 56 years of evolution, changing so slowly over its seven generations that no one could possibly question its lineage—except us. Now that the latest 992-generation 911 is here for the 2020 model year, we were curious about how much of the original 911's DNA, if any, comes through in it. Is there a clear genetic relationship, or has it morphed into a
completely different animal?
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Motor1—Here’s something we’ve never seen tackling the miles-long runway used by Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds. It’s not the Porsche 911 – we watched a bone stock GT2 RS hit 219 mph last May. This 911, however, is a full-on GT3 Cup race car and we won’t even try to tease you about speed. With a flat-out pass of 172 mph, it’s not remotely as fast as other cars recorded at the Space Shuttle
runway. But it’s probably the only one that could take a corner flat-out and not end up spinning like a malfunctioning UFO. And it sounds absolutely glorious.
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| | Driver61 via YouTube—One of the areas drivers can find massive lap time in is during the corner entry phase. Driver61 founder, Scott Mansell explains how to find more time on the way into a corner.
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Kelley Blue Book—The all-electric 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S arrives just six months after the debut of the celebrated Taycan Turbo and Turbo S models. The new four-door sedan, which undercuts the premium models by nearly $50,000, shares the same chassis, front motor and suspension as its more powerful siblings, but it arrives with an abbreviated standard features list, slightly less power, and a choice
between two battery capacities.
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Motor1—Personalization is a keyword in the modern automotive industry. Many manufacturers rely on factory programs which give customers the ability to customize their brand new cars according to their own wishes. That’s usually an expensive process and this easily explains why it’s more popular in the upper end of the automotive spectrum than in the mainstream segments. One of the undisputed
leaders in that regard is Porsche’s in-house Exclusive Manufaktur division.
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Autoblog—Porsche currently has seven different experience centers around the globe that allow fans, owners, and curious minds to see, explore, and feel the world of the famous German automaker. None, however, have been directly in the one of the company's biggest foreign rivals' backyards. Porsche announced it will build a new experience center in north-central Italy at the Autodromo di
Franciacorta racetrack.
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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 Nicholas Jacobs. Santa Barbara Region. "This is a photo of my 1999 911 on Mammoth Mountain for a long weekend of back country and resort skiing during huge snowfalls. I enjoy not having a carpet queen and driving my Porsche in
whatever weather conditions are around without hesitation. It did great with chains!"
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:
Damon Lowney
Digital Media Coordinator & e-Brake News Editor
damonl@pca.org
(410) 381-0911
If you wish to advertise with Porsche Club of America, please contact:
Ilko Nechev
Advertising Director
ilko@pca.org
(646) 644-2796
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