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PCA—At this point, pretty much everyone reading this knows by heart what the Porsche AG press materials reiterate: No matter which model range, “the GTS models are some of the sportiest,
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emotive vehicles in their segment.” This was certainly true in 2015 when the first iteration of the Macan GTS was introduced. And now five years later, even in the face of a new wave of sporty crossovers from the likes of Alfa Romeo, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz/AMG, the Macan GTS remains the most visceral and fun-to-drive vehicle in its class.
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PCA—When Executive Director Vu Nguyen's 2006 Porsche Cayenne S threw a code indicating a four-wheel-drive system fault, #2039, there were a couple options at hand. He could try to diagnose a potential fault in the transmission,
or he could find out whether the battery was the culprit. We decided to focus on the battery first.
| | 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 1958 Porsche-Diesel tractor, 1964 356, 1988 944, and 1997 Boxster
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| | PCA—The first-generation Porsche Cayenne is known for being a capable machine on the road, yet few owners take them off road in spite of being well-equipped to do just that. Todd Deeken of the EveryDay Driver YouTube channel recently decided to show us how he didn't get stuck in a snowbank on a dicey, snow-covered road in Park City, Utah, during a snow storm in his wife's base 2010 Cayenne.
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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—Porsche Club of America Regions support many different aspects of our communities. With one amazing event, the PCA Vancouver Island Region contributed to both its local police and fire departments.
Each spring the Vancouver Island Region holds its Black Rock charity event at the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, in beautiful Ucluelet, situated on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The Black Rock charity event supports two local charities: Cops for Cancer “Tour de Rock” and the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade (UVFB).
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Jay Leno's Garage via YouTube—Ed.: Watch Jay Leno drive and give his impressions of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S.
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| | Autoweek—At first, the mist obstructing my view as I pilot a 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S with 4 mm tire studs sideways in the nearly pitch-black night looks like fog. Flicking on the high beams, it turns to sparkly diamonds, but really, it’s ice dust. I’m on an ice track—one of 41 modules including handling courses, winter rally stages, skid pads and slaloms—set about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle just outside of Levi,
Finland.
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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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PCARMARKET has truly embraced the “All-Porsche marketplace” by tapping into many different subcultures within the brand encompassing everything from transaxle era vehicles like the 944 and 928 all the way up to the modern 918 hyper-car. Whether it’s a no-reserve project car or a collector’s low mileage dream, see why Porsche enthusiasts are abandoning the traditional ways of buying and selling their cars to join the
interactive experience that is PCARMARKET.
See what all the excitement is about at pcarmarket.com
Submit your vehicle here:
PCARMARKET - The World Is Watching
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| | Inside EVs—You probably have been waiting for this, I know I have, but Chris Harris has finally driven the Porsche Taycan Turbo S around the famed Top Gear track and, spoiler alert, he likes it a lot.
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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
Register
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| | Formula E—Porsche has two 99X race cars entered in this weekend’s Mexico City 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.
Vote here!
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Jalopnik—When Porsche announced they would be taking a bunch of their cars from their collection, some right out of their museum, covering seven decades of Porsche cars and taking them to Sonoma Raceway for a bunch of gassy auto journalists to drive around, I was of course interested, but with a caveat: I didn’t want to talk about the same things that have been said about these cars forever.
No breathless, reverential praise or the same clichés you’ve heard a million times before. I wanted to put these cars in a larger perspective, in a framework of a larger history. The history of rear-engined cars.
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& Track—The 2020 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder are both the purest versions of their respective models. They offer naturally aspirated, 4.0-liter flat sixes mated exclusively to six-speed manual transmissions. But that's about to change, as Porsche told Evo that both cars will offer PDK transmissions later this year.
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Car and Driver—We didn't set out to dangle the competition under Tesla's nose. The plan was merely to line up a Tesla Model S against a Porsche Taycan—the Tesla's first true challenger—to see if there's a new EV front-runner. But if you want to experience the most powerful Supercharger in the greater Los Angeles area, you're going to find yourself at SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters, which is
also home to Tesla's design studio.
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| | Jalopnik—Ed.: This video by Jalopnik's Jason Torchinsky details the operation of Volkswagen's Automatic Stickshift transmission. You may be wondering why it's relevant, and that's because it operates the same was as Porsche's Sportomatic transmission.
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Motor1—If the names Vonnen, Kelly-Moss, and Porsche all sound familiar, they should. You obviously know Porsche, and we talked about Wisconsin-based Kelly-Moss Road and Race (KMR) last August. They love doing things like building custom 911s for racing on-road or off, and occasionally they stack 911s up like a gigantic game of automotive Tetris. Vonnen is another company we’ve featured
previously, which has a trick hybrid system called Shadow Drive that installs neatly into a 991-series 911 and adds gobs of instant power. You probably see where this is going.
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Hagerty—Porsche’s ad during the Super Bowl this year leaned on some car-enthusiast fantasy. The thrill of the chase, and in sweet Porsches to boot. There is minimal chance many of us will get to participate in such shenanigans, short of breaking into the Porsche Museum and going out in a blaze of glory before landing on Interpol’s wanted list. But what if you could do it in Stuttgart, in real
Porsches, and not go to jail?
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| | Motor1—In case you no longer watch Top Gear, the show recently had the opportunity to lap the Porsche Taycan Turbo S around its test track. The EV went around the course in 1:17.6, which is the fastest result ever for a four-door vehicle. It ties the time for the Koenigsegg CCX with the Top Gear wing and modern Honda NSX. The next best results for sedans are 1:21.4 from the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and 1:21.5 for the
Tesla Model 3 AWD Performance.
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Road & Track—The Porsche 911 GT3 is easily one of the best-sounding new cars on sale today, courtesy of its maniacal 9000-rpm flat-six. Porsche Design thinks it can translate some of that auditory joy to a Bluetooth Speaker, which it's selling for €3500 ($3831).
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Gear—Chris Harris talks more about the Porsche Taycan from episode 3 of series 28… and how drifting it is a little like drifting an old GT-R.
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Motor1—When it comes to the Porsche line-up the mid-engined Cayman and Boxster have perpetually lived in the shadow of the 911. Although the mid-engined layout of the Cayman and Boxster is in many ways superior to the rear-engined 911, Porsche always reserves its best engines for the 911. When Porsche revealed the high-performance 718 Spyder and 718 Cayman GT4, it was a step that brought the
greater performance to Porsche’s sweetest chassis.
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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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Drive—There was no sole cause for the ballooning values of air-cooled Porsche 911s during the Twenteens. Magnus Walker's Urban Outlaw, the upper class turning classic cars into financial speculation, and pop culture coming back around on '80s cheesiness all played their roles, and as a result, cars that were once worth four figures occasionally sold for six. While the luftgekühlt 911 market does finally appear to be plateauing, there are still people out there asking scoff-worthy sums
for classic 911s regardless of condition, often just because their car is air-cooled, which some mistake for provenance in and of itself.
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CarAdvice—The 911. Legend. A benchmark amongst drivers’ cars. The car that hardcore enthusiasts aspire to owning. The poster car on millions of kids’ bedroom walls and screensavers. An instantly recognisable car (even by your grandmother), and into its eighth generation it just gets more competent, more captivating, and no less magical…
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Driver—Last February, Porsche shocked the automotive world with a surprising statement: The next-generation Macan, due for the 2022 or 2023 model year, would be all electric. It's a bold move, and if you think that a total switch to an all-electric Macan sounds like a risky proposition, you are not alone. Porsche apparently thinks so, too, since it has previously announced that electric- and gasoline-powered models would sell alongside each other.
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Business Insider—Don't pity the ungainly Porsche Panamera. The four-door that everybody loves to hassle for its looks has been improved, unexpectedly, by the addition of a wagon trim to the lineup.
Remarkably, the ugly sedan has become a more swan-like estate.
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| | GQ—In the age of Big Collaboration, it's become harder and harder for brands to surprise fashion fans. Supreme and Louis Vuitton did the trick a few years back. So did the newly announced Adidas and Prada partnership. However, in an era when every single brand is like, "Let's build fam," it's hard to keep getting excited over a hoodie with two logos on it instead of one. For those suffering from collab fatigue, one of New York's most exciting
menswear brands is here with a genuinely big-deal collaboration: Aimé Leon Dore x Porsche.
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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 Dave Steffens. Diablo Region. "A shot from the Oakland Hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay on Cinco De Mayo last year."
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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