Become a premium member for just $10 your first year - deal ends December 31.
Avatar photo
Kieron Fennelly
JoinedSeptember 19, 2021
Articles46
Like many boys of my generation I was a car fan spending far more time with my nose in the latest copy of Autocar than in my schoolbooks. As a young man I remember ogling the Porsches in Hendon Way Motors, but they all seemed to cost about £3500, as much as I earned in a year. I had to settle for a BMW 1600. A commercial career and family life rather took over during the next two decades and a succession of company or family cars provided transport. As I headed for 50, I bought a 9-year old Porsche 911 and people who didn’t understand, talked about ‘mid-life crisis’. Good luck to them, I said, but you can’t own a Porsche without being fascinated by the company and I started contributing a back page column to a Porsche magazine. This gradually expanded as I learned more and writing articles and features gradually took over my time as a by now self-employed individual. I began writing for other mostly classic car magazine. With so many writing about Porsche I have concentrated on historical aspects and interviewed many retired Porsche figures which has helped me to get into Continental and US magazines. As a largely historical writer I feel strongly that we need to take more care of archives. While company resources such as Porsche’s are secure, other private resources are being lost, for example much of the incomparable Haymarket archive at Teddington when the company moved a few years ago; I so wish my father had kept his 20-year Autocar collection. As a largely historical writer I feel strongly that we need to take more care of archives. While company resources such as Porsche’s are secure, other private resources are being lost, for example much of the incomparable Haymarket archive at Teddington when the company moved a few years ago; I so wish my father had kept his 20-year Autocar collection. Bicester Heritage for example has offered to house motor club archives often too big for members to store.
Model In Depth

Model Focus: owning a 987 Cayman R  

Porsche 987 Cayman R
The 987 Cayman and its immediate successor the 981 Cayman model represented  Porsche’s first volume production mid-engined coupé. Using naturally aspirated flat six  engines, it ran for a little over a decade until a turbocharged flat four changed the character  of the car. Subtly differentiated from the Boxster from which...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $250k

In this concluding article, we cross the 150k price barrier where the atmosphere becomes more rarified. Our upper limit of $250,000 reflects Porsche’s US pricing structure: in late 2024 the most expensive 911s are the Turbo S Cabrio at $243,000 and the GT3 RS at $241,000. For a different budget...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $150k

718 cayman gt4
With our latest price limit, we are well beyond the new price of virtually any 718 Boxster/Cayman – the double in fact the base 2.0 Cayman, and most of the 911 Carreras except the GTS and Turbo models and of course the specialist small-volume 992s. Nevertheless, if demand for Porsches...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $100k

For prospective shoppers, six figures represent new cars, the Boxster Cayman 718 range, five-year-old 911s, and some very desirable, and above all, usable air-cooled cars. On a different budget? Check out these other Buyer’s Guides Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $25,000 Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $50,000 Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $75,000 Porsche Boxster /...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $75k

Porsche 718 Cayman T
On a different budget? Check out our other Buyer’s Guides: Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: Up to $25,000 Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: Up to $50,000 In this third part, we review what the market has to offer nearer $75,000. And logically enough, this new cut- off brings in many...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $25k

Foreword For the would-be Porsche owner, the cost of entry can at first glance seem pretty discouraging: a fully specified 911 Carrera S will set you back at least $130,000 new, and a 718 Boxster/Cayman S two-thirds of that. And while the Panamera, Cayenne, and Macan depreciate almost as quickly...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Budget Based Porsche Buyer’s Guide: $50k 

Porsche 911 997.1 (2005 - 2007) – Service Schedule
Doubling our previous budget opens as you might imagine a much wider selection of Porsche sports cars. What can the buyer with half the price of a base Carrera 992 (without any of Porsche’s expensive options) expect to find? The Transaxle Models Surprisingly perhaps for thirty and forty-year-old cars, plenty...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Porsche 991.1 GTS Buyer’s Guide

First Europe, then North America The 991.1 GTS was the second 911 offered as a GTS sub-brand. The first was the 997.2 in 2009 after Porsche tried it successfully on the Cayenne. The GTS concept was a clever idea: based on the S but priced above it, the GTS version...
Read More
Porsche 911 (993)

Porsche 993 Buyer’s Guide

When it was launched in Europe in late 1993, the appropriately numbered 911 993 would be the last of the air-cooled Porsches. Indeed, the decision had already been made by Porsche. By the time the second generation 993 emerged in 1995, the coming demise of the 911 as enthusiasts, indeed...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Porsche 718 Buyer’s Guide

Overview of the Porsche 718 Revealed in 2016, the Porsche 718 was the third generation Boxster/Cayman. Strictly speaking, it was the fourth generation Boxster, the first being the 996-based 986 models of 1997-2004. The Cayman was presented in 2005 and it, and an updated Boxster, shared the 997 chassis. To...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Porsche 996 and 997 GT3 Buyers Guide

The Type 997 GT3 family, from left to right: GT3 Cup Race Car, GT3, GT3 RS, and GT3 RSR Endurance Race Car
Overview The GT3s are the low volume 911s, road-going production cars homologated for what was Group 3 competition. The original homologated 911 was of course the famous RS 2.7 in 1972. After that Porsche concentrated on the higher Groups for which the 930 Turbo served as the homologation model. In...
Read More
Porsche 911 (964)

The Development Story of the Porsche 964

Yellow Porsche 964
It took Porsche twenty years before deciding to modernise its 911, yet outwardly, apart from its bumpers, the new 964 looked exactly like its predecessor. How was it that Porsche managed an evolutionary process so slow it would have bankrupted almost any other car maker? This article is available exclusively...
Read More
Buyers Guides

Porsche Cayman 981 Buyer’s Guide

Porsche Cayman 981
Once the Boxster was established, it was only a matter of time before a coupé version appeared. When the Cayman was launched in 2005, it was clearly a hardtop Boxster, but by pricing it slightly higher and endowing it with fractionally more power, Porsche pitched it as an intermediate model...
Read More
People & Profiles

Herbert Linge: A Porsche Legend

Herbert Linge on ONS duty again with a 911 at Hockenheim in 1973.
Porsche’s Forrest Gump—the irrepressible Herbert Linge—pops up everywhere in Porsche history even after his retirement almost thirty years ago. The amazingly varied Porsche career of Herbert Linge would be unimaginable today—from wartime apprentice to manager of Weissach via workshop, development testing, race track, Porsche in the US, and Formula 1....
Read More
People & Profiles

Porsche Veteran Roland Kussmaul

Roland Kussmaul
Except perhaps at one or two retirement parties or other formal occasions, no one ever saw Roland Kussmaul wearing a suit and tie. Racing or workshop overalls, Porsche’s pit lane uniform perhaps, even a mere pair of grubby shorts in those shots of the sweltering Dakar where he raced during...
Read More
People & Profiles

George Follmer the Stand-in Champion

Follmer with Vasek Pollack in 1976.
Follmer was born in Phoenix in 1934, though effectively he became a Californian as his family moved to Pasadena before he was two years old and it was in this northern suburb of Los Angeles that he grew up and raised his own family. He was, he says, a reasonable...
Read More
Porsche 356

Porsche and the Corvair Connection

Black and white photo of Ed Cole standing in front of Chevrolet Corvair
People usually recall the Chevrolet Corvair as the car that was “unsafe at any speed” which is rather unfair because the Corvair itself occupied barely a chapter in Ralph Nader’s infamous book. Indeed, amongst others, the VW Beetle also received a pasting—and Mr. Nader thought the VW Microbus was too...
Read More
Model In-Depth

Works 914/6 GT: Porsche’s Blood Orange

Works Porsche 914/6 GT on track at Silverstone circuit
The 914/6 was the Porsche-engined version of the 914, the joint venture sports car designed by Porsche and built at Karmann using mostly VW running gear. It was intended by VW to be a successor to the Karmann Ghia (and by Porsche to be an entry level model to replace...
Read More
PRR

Heinrich Klie and the 914

Obviously these two attractive models from the lingerie manufacturer Triumph (München) like this Porsche 914/6 – Rutesheim Athletics Club, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1969) Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially it was only a moderate success, but it’s...
Read More
PRR

Mike de ‘Udy and the Carrera Six

The formidable Carrera 6 outside the Porsche headquarters, Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, 1966 The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS. The 904 was a sleek glass fibre bodied racer penned by Butzi Porsche, and it took over as Porsche’s...
Read More
© Stuttcars.com 2021. This site was designed and produced solely by Stuttcars.com. Stuttcars.com is not associated with Porsche AG in any manner, except for a mutual appreciation and love of the cars. All pictures and references to the Porsche name, and the car names and shapes are for reference only, and do not imply any association with Porsche AG.