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PCA—On the record, Chevrolet’s new mid-engined C8 Corvette is merely an interesting curiosity to the folks at Porsche AG and PCNA. Behind closed doors, one gets the impression that the threat assessment
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For about the same money, the Corvette brings a 490-horsepower V8 against a 300-hp turbo four, and it’s nearly two seconds faster from zero to 60 miles per hour. Maybe not a result of the C8’s intro, but at least suspiciously close in time, Porsche announced the latest extension of the 4.0-liter naturally-aspirated flat-six into the 718 lineup — the Boxster and Cayman GTS.
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PCA—You've probably heard the name Bruce Canepa if you're a fan of Porsches or vintage racing. You've definitely seen him on track at Porsche Rennsport Reunion. Yet you might not know much else about the man outside of his
racing activities and affinity to the Porsche 959. That's why we decided to visit his massive shop and showroom and find out what makes him tick.
Starting in early March, look out for a video series on PCA's YouTube channel that will cover a variety of subjects.
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plan was to experience three or so hours of off-roading on trails that would not only challenge the vehicles, but provide their drivers some direct experience and help them learn to navigate challenging terrain.
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| | PCA—There are few things more terrifying and destructive than fire. But it can also lead to rebirth, as in the case of Van Bagley’s 1986.5 928S, which was nearly burned up. Read about how his car was “Resurrected,” with some impressive upgrades to boot. In early 2019, Porsche launched the newest 911 with the upgraded S model. But as we found in our first drive of the recently released base 911, “A High Standard,” it is anything but basic. At
last year’s Parade, a radical-looking 930 Turbo “Polar 911” caught our eyes, but its history, including 32 years spent in storage, is even more interesting. Northern Ohio Region member Marie Quintana first spotted a Cayman a decade ago, and was absolutely smitten. Read about her custom Cayman in “Instant Attraction.” Designer Grant Larson has had a distinguished 30-year career at Porsche. Read his interview in “Company Man.”
All this plus bios of the newest National PCA office holders, a note from PCA President Tom Gorsuch, and much more.
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PCA—Join the Porsche Club of America at the 37th Annual Porsche and Vintage VW Literature, Toy, Model, and Memorabilia Swap Meet, Saturday, February 29, 2020 at the LAX Hilton Hotel. PCA will have a special booth featuring Porsche Parade Palm Springs and club membership information.
Porsche and VW enthusiasts will enjoy thousands of memorabilia items for sale in the two large ballrooms on the main floor of the Airport Hilton, 5711 West Century Blvd., Los Angeles—very close by Los Angeles International Airport.
The public is admitted at 9:00 a.m. for $10 each at the door. Early Bird shoppers are admitted with the vendors at 7:00 a.m. for $30 at the door.
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| | PCA—Porsche Club of America Regions create fantastic opportunities to give back to their communities. Sometimes PCA Regions even partner with celebrities. PCA just happens to have a very famous Porsche enthusiast who calls the Down East Region area home – Patrick Dempsey.
In 2017, Down East Region President Nate Marcoux and new member Lou Jacobs envisioned bringing three passions of Patrick Dempsey together for one event: The Dempsey Center, Porsches, and Maine.
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Motor Trend via YouTube—Welcome to the highly anticipated MotorTrend 2019 Best Driver’s Car competition! Ride along with hosts Jonny Lieberman, Jethro Bovingdon, and SCCA Hall of Fame racecar driver Randy Pobst as they unleash 12 of this year’s hottest sports cars and supercars on the road and at the track and figure out which one’s best.
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| | Petrolicious—If you consider yourself a Porschephile (or have spent enough time around people who label themselves as such), then you’re probably all too aware that the pinnacle of the 901-generation P-car experience is the 1973 Carrera RS. That’s not a fact, but it’s pretty darn close. The car has been described as the ultimate early 911 time and time again by enthusiasts, collectors, and race car drivers for good reason.
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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 fuels our daily users and visitors with the best quality and best valued Porsches on the market today. PCARMARKET is quickly becoming the online destination for all Porsche, all-the-time auctions. Offering daily content updates, hand-picked vehicles alongside hard to find parts and one-of-kind
collectibles. Whether you are looking to bid, consign, or spectate, do it with confidence at PCARMARKET.
Check out these Porsches currently live on PCARMARKET:
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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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This video by Garage 54 is a bit different than the Youtube channel's usual wrecking experiments. Our main guy here pits four SUVs against each other, in round-per-round tug-of-war battles to see which one's the toughest.
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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—Registration for Phase l, consisting of General Parade Registration and Room Reservation is still open.
Phase ll Registration is for banquet reservations, competitive events, tours and more. Phase ll opens on March 31.
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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| | Porsche Newsroom—André Lotterer (DE) recorded the fastest lap in Super Pole to secure pole position at the fourth race of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Mexico City (MX) and claim another highlight for Porsche in the fully-electric race series. He scored three points in the drivers’ championship.
Lotterer did not, however, enjoy such good fortune in the race itself.
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Porsche via YouTube—Zell am See played host to another round of extreme ice racing once again, as the the legendary race took place in Austria. Catch the high-speed highlights from the adrenaline-filled event.
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| | Jalopnik—As humans, we have the exquisite ability to see a whole range of wonderful colors. Researchers have chalked healthy humans eyes up to being able to distinguish around a million. So why are most of our cars the same shade of sludge? If you wind up getting a Porsche Taycan and you don’t immediately paint it pink, you’re going to Taste Jail.
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Carfection via YouTube—Henry Catchpole tests the new six-cylinder GTS to see how close it gets to his favourite car of 2019, the top of the range Spyder.
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| | Jalopnik—If you’re a snitch of any sort, I need you to stop reading this right now. I’m sorry, but what follows is strictly for the people who never ran to the teacher when they were children. So if you have snitch-like tendencies, just hit the “back” button on your browser and read another one of the great features we are running today. Thanks in advance.
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Motorweek via YouTube—Being the proud performance-oriented brand that they are, Porsche could only sit back and watch Tesla parade around at ludicrous speed for so long. Time for them to enter the full-EV business in a big way, a way that only Porsche can. So let’s head out onto the track with the Taycan Turbo S.
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Autoweek—If you’d like to see Porsche create a simple, relatively attainable spiritual successor to the midengine 914, you’re not alone: When we raised the idea of bringing the concept back in electric vehicle form earlier this year, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
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| | Motorweek via YouTube—Brian Robinson went out to Portugal to drive the 2020 Porsche Macan GTS.
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Motor1—The Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur personalization division launches a new SportDesign and Aerokit packages for the 992-generation Porsche 911 that gives the Carrera models a more aggressive look for folks that don't feel like waiting for (or paying for) the future GT3 variant.
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Autoblog—At this point, we’ve seen a whole lot of different 992 generation Porsche 911s. However, we’re still missing all the extra spicy versions. One of those is the 911 GTS, which, to keep the metaphor rolling, is a medium spice level Porsche 911. Porsche cranks everything up a little bit further than a Carrera S, and you get a slightly massaged exterior look, too.
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Motor1—Two decades ago, it would be a travesty to say that SUVs are the bread and butter of Porsche. But that's the reality now. In 2019, the German marque sold more than double SUVs than cars in the U.S. That's a total of 41,668 Porsche SUVs sold, way more than the 19,900 cars the company moved in the same year.
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Drive—The next-generation Porsche Macan due out in 2021 will exclusively be available with an electric powertrain. That doesn't mean the current, gasoline-powered car has reached the end of its lifecycle. It recently benefited from a mid-cycle update, and a new report claims it will be sold alongside the battery-powered model until at least 2024.
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Porsche Newsroom—Automated and autonomous driving functions are impossible to implement without AI. The required computing capacity is provided by special chips specialized in parallel computing. But researchers are also working on new, biologically inspired solutions as well as on quantum computers that promise even more computing capacity.
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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 David Temming. Maverick Region. "2015 911 Carrera S Cabriolet in Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum - after the rain."
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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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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