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Porsches at 2024 HSR Classic 6 Hours of The Glen

Photos by Chuck Andersen. The 2024 HSR Classic 6 Hours of The Glen was a thrilling spectacle at the historic Watkins Glen International circuit. This year’s event featured a s bevy of competing Porsches including a 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 718 GT4, Porsche 997.1 Cup, Porsche 356B, and many...
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Porsche Video

VIDEO: Porsches Racing At 2023 Goodwood Revival

The 2023 Goodwood Revival featured the Fordwater Trophy race, marking 60 years of the Porsche 911. The race showcased 30 early 901 and 911 models, all running on sustainable fuels. Each race featured two drivers, with a star-studded lineup that included Mark Webber in his historic racing debut, F1 champion...
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Porsche Life

Porsche customizer BB-Auto comes to America

Los Angeles auto dealer juggernaut Galpin Motors has announced a partnership with legendary German design firm bb-Auto, which was founded 50 years ago in Frankfurt, Germany, by the husband-and-wife team of Rainer and Kathrin Buchmann. Launch during Monterey Car Week Galpin holds exclusive rights to bb-Auto in North America and...
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Auction News

RM Sotheby’s Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction

Porsche 911s on track at the Porsche Experience Centre Atlanta (Courtesy of the Porsche Experience Centre Atlanta) RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Centre Atlanta, will host the Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction, an exclusive, single-marque auction to be held on the weekend of 27 October at the home...
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Porsche Lists

The Most Iconic Porsches of the 1960s

Front-angled view of a Porsche 917 finished with the blue and orange Gulf livery.
The 1960s was an important period for the automobile industry. In the States, the classic muscle cars were in the so-called golden phase, bursting with oversized engines and raw horsepower. On the other side of the Atlantic, German carmaker Porsche was also riding a wave, building the blocks for lasting...
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Air | Water

Air|Water 2026

More than 9,500 people from around the world traveled to Costa Mesa, California, over the weekend, confirming Air|Water 2026 as a permanent fixture on the area’s vibrant automotive calendar. Returning to the OC Fair & Event Center for the third time, Air|Water 2026 expanded its formula, with around 800 cars...
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“Air Cooled Sunday” Bought to You By Collecting Cars

After the success of Supercar Sunday and Superbike Sunday, Collecting Cars is proud to announce their next exciting event: the Air-Cooled Sunday! Air-Cooled Sunday is a dedicated online-only auction event specifically for air-cooled Porsches. Porsche is one of the top selling marques in Collecting Cars and the 911 attracts the attention and interests...
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Porsche Video

VIDEO: The greatest Porsche collection in the world

It won’t come as a big surprise that the world’s greatest Porsche collection is housed right in Stuttgart, at the official Porsche Museum, famous YouTuber Mr JWW managed to get a private tour at the museum and values the entire collection at no less than $1 billion, yes, you that’s...
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Porsche History

The philosophy of Ferdinand Porsche

At the dawn of the 20th century, engineer Ferdinand Porsche laid down a technological and entrepreneurial blueprint that continues to guide the company bearing his name. Porsche’s enduring success is rooted in its commitment to those early principles. From the outset, the Porsche story was charged with innovation. As the...
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Events

“Das Treffen X” Rocks Porsche Enthusiasts

The milestone event at Impact Speed Park, Bangkok, brought together more than 3,800 enthusiasts and 734 Porsche cars across generations, with themed zones showcasing Porsche’s iconic heritage, cutting-edge innovation, and diverse lifestyle appeal. Porsche passion in Southeast Asia returned to center stage as Das Treffen celebrated its milestone 10th edition...
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche 930 to 935: The Turbo Porsches

Porsche 930 to 935: The Turbo Porsches – by John Starkey © Veloce Publishing Ltd Much has been written about Porsche’s racing exploits over the years, but there is perhaps one model that has served, more than any other, as the pillar of the company’s achievements. Prototypes have come and...
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Book Reviews

Mr. Le Mans: Tom Kristensen

Mr. Le Mans: Tom Kristensen by Tom Kristensen with Dan Philipsen © Glen Smale The interesting thing about racing is that nothing is certain. You can prepare yourself and the car perfectly, but then another car hits you or pulls out in front of you, and there is little if...
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Porsche

A Collector’s Dream: 10 of the Best Porsche Special Edition Models

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With a legacy spanning decades, Porsche has grown to become a brand synonymous with performance, luxury and overall automotive brilliance. The German carmaker’s history is a storied journey marked by groundbreaking engineering, iconic designs and the relentless pursuit of performance. For collectors and enthusiasts, owning a Porsche is often more...
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Book Reviews

Porsche 917-021 The Fabulous Story

The fabulous story of this car’s life begins in 1970 with the construction of chassis #021, one of the first batch of twenty-five 917s to be built. In April 1970, the newly completed chassis #917-021 was sold to the Finnish AAW team, finished in the red and yellow colours of...
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Porsche News

Luftgekühlt 5

Luftgekühlt 4, Port of Los Angeles, 7 May 2017 This year’s venue for the Luftgekühlt 5 gathering will be the recently opened Ganahl Lumber Company South Bay at 2600 Del Amo Blvd in Torrance, CA. Luft 5 will be taking place on Sunday 22 April 2018 from 09h00-15h00. Luftgekühlt 4,...
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche Sport 2018

Porsche Sport 2018 – © Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag For those who follow Porsche motorsport closely, the 26th edition of the well-known annual, Porsche Sport 2018, is definitely a book you want on your bookshelf. I have sung the praises of these publications before today, and for good reason, but...
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Book Reviews

Porsche 936

There can be few people better qualified to write about a race car than those who drove that car in competition. When you add into the formula, the fact that the racing driver in question also worked in the motorsport department of the manufacturer responsible for building that car, then...
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Book Reviews

Can-Am 50th Anniversary

Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out with North America’s Greatest Race Series 1966-74 © Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc First impressions – Can-Am 50th Anniversary is a big book! It’s not that it is so thick, but dimensionally it is large in length and breadth, so you had best find yourself...
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Events

Porsche Unseen

Since it opened in August 2024, Curvistan Bangkok has aimed to redefine leisure and entertainment for the Porsche community and beyond as a bar, café, art gallery and hangout that celebrates car culture, art and design. Now it’s hosting an exceptional collection: the Porsche Unseen Design Studies. The Curvistan Bangkok...
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Porsche

What to Look for When Buying a Used Porsche Boxster

If you are in the market for a used Porsche that balances good value for money and that is modern, affordable and fun enough, the Boxster is hard to beat. In fact, a used Porsche Boxster might be the best value in the brand’s entire back catalog.  Some early Boxsters...
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Fuori Concorso

Porsches at Fuori Concorso

Since its launch in 2019, Fuori Concorso has become a firm fixture on the international automotive calendar. Curated by Guglielmo Miani, the event blends car culture, design and craftsmanship against a backdrop of historic villas along Lake Como. Porsche has made several appearances at the event in recent years. Highlights...
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Events

2022 ünStock: Sacrilege turns Stardom

Porsche Carrera rear wheel at Unstock 2022
Stock or UnStock? Southern California’s air-cooled Porsche culture is undoubtedly home to faithful enthusiasts who believe Porsche’s legendary sports car, the 911, is the ultimate canvas to build the “perfect” sports car. While too much ego in customizing can lead to an ugly duck (and bankruptcy), novel and tasteful modifications...
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Events

Luftgekühlt goes to Europe!

Background In the Porsche world, “Luftgekühlt” represents all the air-cooled cars in the manufacturer’s history, from the Pre-A 356 through the 993 model line, which ended in 1998.  A true Porsche happening, Luftgekühlt is an experiential car culture event centered around a tightly curated list of historically significant or interesting...
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Book Reviews

Works Porsche 956 – The Definitive History

Works Porsche 956 – The Definitive History: by Serge Vanbockryck – © Porter Press International I met the author, Serge Vanbockryck, a good number of years back at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and since then I have known him to be the quiet, hardworking PR manager for the Chev...
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Lollipop Racing

Porsche’s interactive motorsport game, “Lollipop Racing”

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) announced it is joining “Lollipop Racing,” a new streaming series and interactive game created by entertainment technology studio Feature.io and written and executive-produced by critically acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer. The series, which consists of 10 fictional episodes and 10 motorsport races set in digital recreations...
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Porsche Life

The Porsche Panamera and the Art of the Practical Sports Car

The Porsche Club of America’s own publication once compared the first-generation Panamera to a long-wheelbase Chrysler Crossfire. That tells you roughly where critical opinion sat when the car debuted in Shanghai in 2009. The “hunchback” roofline dominated every review, and even Porsche’s CEO admitted in a 2014 Hollywood Reporter interview...
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Featured Content & Premium Editorials

Porsche and the US

Porsche 356 Cabriolet competing at an aerodrome race in the USA, ca. 1952/1953 America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest market, and this was important for the young and growing company. In some ways, the importance of this market even influenced the development of certain models. In this feature, Porsche...
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History of the Porsche 911

The Story of the Porsche 911 – A Timeline Porsche Prepares To Evolve Beyond The 356 By the early 1960’s, with the commercial success of the 356 (in all of its variants) over the past decade, Porsche had garnered a reputation for building quality, high-performance vehicles that handled equally well...
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Porsche Life

75 years of Porsche in Monaco

75 years of Porsche sports cars” in the Principality of Monaco Porsche loans six cars to the Collection de Voitures de S.A.S. le Prince de Monaco. For three-quarters of a century, Porsche has been a synonym for exceptional sports cars. The 8th of June 1948 is the date on which...
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche 964 – The Modern Classic

Porsche 964: The Modern Classic by Paul Koebrugge – © Paul Koebrugge The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the earliest models to the very latest. One of the most notable achievements by Porsche’s designers is how they have retained the...
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Porsche News

Porsche’s First Driving Center in Mexico

Since its inception, Porsche has been synonymous with innovation, precision, and emotion. Every curve, every line, and every technological advance has been guided by a simple but powerful idea: the passion for driving. This development represents a new chapter for Porsche in Latin America – a place where the brand’s...
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Luftgekühlt

Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1 Approaching

With just a few weeks until the gates open for the third annual Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1 event on April 26 in Costa Mesa, CA, we have more details to share with visitors and fans. The 2025 event will include experiences exclusive to Air|Water ticket holders, such as rides...
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Porsche Life

Porsche Celebration at FAT Mankei

Since its grand opening in May 2023, the FAT Mankei restaurant – located on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road – has quickly become a must-visit destination for automotive enthusiasts from around the globe. As the brainchild of Ferdinand Porsche, the grandson of Porsche’s founder and great-grandson of his namesake, FAT...
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My Porsche Story

Owner Story: The survivor-look 911

The survivor-look 911 Obsession, it can strike at any time. Unfortunately, mine struck about five years too late after the price of air-cooled 911s had rocketed. I can’t quite put my finger on why I now needed an air-cooled 911, obviously the timing was out five years ago. Maybe a...
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Book Reviews

Legendary – The history of the Porsche 919 Hybrid

Legendary – The history of the Porsche 919 Hybrid, published by Delius Klasing Verlag – © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale There will be few who would argue that much of Porsche’s history has been shaped by motorsport. From the very early race cars, some constructed by privateer teams (in the 1950s),...
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Porsche History

Ferdinand Porsche

F. Porsche, taken in 1935
Ferdinand Porsche (1875 – 1951) Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing car, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK and several other important automobiles and technologies. Most importantly...
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Werks Reunion

Werks Reunion Monterey 2026

On Friday, August 14, 2026, with the Monterey Peninsula already deep into the busiest days of Monterey Car Week, more than 800 Porsches gathered across the fairways of Monterey Pines Golf Course for the twelfth annual Werks Reunion Monterey. Organized by the Porsche Club of America, the event has become...
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Luftgekühlt

Luftgekühlt Rocks North Carolina

A celebration of air-cooled legends, the 30th anniversary of the 993 in America, and a salute to East Coast racing royalty, Luftgekühlt once again proved why it stands as a benchmark in automotive storytelling. With an expertly curated lineup of cars, immersive exhibits, and appearances by special guests, the annual...
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Notable Chassis

Porsche 962/88 – The Autobiography of 962 011

Story by Glen Smale. All images courtesy of © Porter Press Int. Porsche’s Type 956, 962 and 962C is the world’s most successful prototype race car ever produced. Developed specifically for the Group C class that ran between 1982 and 1992, and the IMSA series in the USA, these three versions...
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Events

Air | Water’s SoCal debut makes a splash

Featuring a curated selection of over 1,000 Porsches, Air|Water, held on April 27th, 2024, created an impressive showcase for air and water-cooled models representing over seven decades of Porsche evolution. Under cool and sunny skies at the Orange County Fair Grounds in Costa Mesa, California, Porsches displayed both indoors and...
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Porsche History

Dr. Porsche’s original testing grounds

Four originals: Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, his son Ferdinand, and two Porsche 550 Spyders on the Großglockner High Alpine Road – a mountain that figures prominently in Porsche family lore. What a panorama: At an altitude of 2,571 meters, the Edelweißspitze offers a magnificent view of the Großglockner, Austria’s highest peak....
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Porsche Life

Porsche Makes a Mercedes: The 500E Story

A New Opportunity for Porsche For Porsche’s Michael Hölscher this was his first major project. It was his opportunity to set up fabrication and assembly of a complete automobile at a time when Porsche was suffering from the major fall in the value of the dollar that had supported it...
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Events

Porsches at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering

August 18, 2023: Referring to The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering as a car show would be incorrect. Call it a “Concours,” and you would still be off the mark. Situated on the lawns at the Quail Golf Club in Carmel Valley is, instead, what I will call a Luxury Lifestyle...
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Lanzante

Lanzante at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed

British automotive engineering specialist, Lanzante, will once again deliver a stellar line-up for the Goodwood Festival of Speed. No less than seven cars will make a first public appearance, in some form, as the team showcases its expertise dynamically, on the famous Hillclimb, but also from the striking Lanzante Pavilion,...
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Le Mans: The Official History 1970–79

Le Mans: The Official History 1970–79 by Quentin Spurring © Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covers the 1970s in his well-known and valuable decade-by-decade history of the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race. The decade from 1970 to 1979, certainly saw some of the most...
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People & Profiles

Jochen Mass

This book not only describes the huge success of Jochen Mass as a racing driver, but it also reveals more about the man himself, apart from his motor racing career. The review below is divided into English/German, for those readers who would like an insight into this fine work in...
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PCA Porsche Parade

Porsche Club of America’s Porsche Parade Concours

No desert mirage After canceling their initial plans due to Covid, the PCA’s annual “Porsche Parade” was back on the calendar for 2023 for Palm Springs, CA. The week-long celebration of the Porsche marque is filled with seminars, drives, mixers, and of course, the Concours d’Elegance. Long known for their...
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Porsche 356

Petersen Automotive Museum’s Porsche 356 Cruise-in

Driving a classic car in “LA traffic” requires some fortitude and courage, so it was a pleasure to see how many Porsche 356s arrived at the December’s 356 cruise-in at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Dry weather on the “Miracle Mile” helped boost attendance, yielding just under seventy Porsche 356s. A...
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Porsche 911 G-Model: The Book 1974-1989

Porsche 911 G-Model: The Book 1974-1989 by Andreas Gabriel, Manfred Hering & Tobias Kindermann © Berlin Motor Books Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an impressive publication it is. In line with their other excellent publications in...
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Porsche Gipfeltreffen

Porsche Gipfeltreffen 2024

Five magical days Out of the garage and into a state of driving joy: this motto once again turned the Porsche Gipfeltreffen (Porsche Summit) event into a community gathering with people at its core. They spent five days on the road, from Stuttgart over the Alps to Nice, and covered...
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Porsche Life

10 Porsche T-Shirts Our Members Asked Us to Make

Man wearing Air Cooled - Porsche 911 Turbo t-shirt
If you can’t own a Porsche of your own (and even if you can), repping Stuttgart and its world-famous automobiles on a high-quality t-shirt is the perfect way to show off your love for the brand. Nobody knows that better than our members—whose love for these incredible cars runs so...
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Porsche Cayman GT4 RS

Hype vs. Reality: Living With the Porsche GT4 RS

Story by Tina Chau. Photography by Travis Gallatin. Breaking the Box: The GT3 Engine in the Mid-Chassis For decades, the Porsche Cayman was relegated to a carefully guarded box: lauded by some experts as possessing the superior chassis, it was always deliberately hamstrung by the factory to avoid overshadowing the...
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Porsche

The Porsche 912 Was the 911 Anyone Could Afford. Not Anymore

Silver Porsche 356 and 912 side by side
When Dr. Ferdinand Porsche set out to create a high-performance sports car based on the so-called “people’s car” (the Volkswagen Beetle), the result was the Porsche 356, the first production automobile to bear the Porsche name. The Porsche 356 was manufactured between 1948 and 1965, establishing the blueprint for the...
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Porsche 917

Porsche 917 – A Brief History

Porsche 917 History
A Brief History In mid-1967 the International Automobile Federation (FIA) announced that it had decided to modify the regulations pertaining to the Sport Prototype, Sport and Gran Turismo categories. As a result, the World Brands Championship was on the brink of the greatest crisis in its history. Many were the...
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Events

Luftgekühlt lands in Poland

Going Global Luftgekühlt – the hit Californian-born gathering of air-cooled Porsches – lay down new roots in Europe in mid-June, when it visited Poland for the first time. Against a historic backdrop – the restored Dworzec Świebodzki railway station in Wrocław – more than 200 of Zuffenhausen’s finest sports cars...
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Book Reviews

Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks

Brian Redman – Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks © EVRO Publishing Brian Redman is about as down-to-earth as they come, which for a top-flite racing driver, is not an attribute common to all who ply their trade in this field. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Brian on twelve occasions...
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Building the Porsche Beutlers

In Switzerland Ernst and Fritz Beutler made a good living from special bodies on both Volkswagen and Porsche chassis. Ultimately Porsche took a close interest in what the brothers were doing because it had 2+2 ambitions of its own. The Swiss brothers Beutler stepped on the stage of Porsche-car history...
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Events

Rennsport Reunion 7

Having just experienced the seventh Rennsport Reunion at Weathertech Raceway, Laguna Seca, it’s clear absolutely nothing would get in the way of the Porsche faithful gathering to share their enthusiasm for the love of Porsche. What was given was received tenfold. Laughter, excitement, and pure joy were everywhere as participants...
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Auction News

Gooding Sell More Than $128 Million at Pebble Beach

This year Gooding and Company sold a total of $128 million at Pebble Beach including the one-of 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Bertone Speciale which sold for $16,500,000. With this type of auction comes record sales and Gooding broke some incredible Porsche numbers including top prices for the Porsche 956,...
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Motorsport & Racing

Falken Motorsports wins Nürburgring 24 qualifiers

Falken Motorsports has won both qualifying races for the Nürburgring 24 Hours with the Porsche 911 GT3 R. The four-hour races are considered the most important preparation for the prestigious endurance classic on the storied racetrack. They are also part of the Nürburgring Langsstrecken Series (NLS) for the first time....
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F-A-T. Ice Race

1000+ HP Porsche 917 ON ICE!

Previously only in motorsport, now perfectly suitable for everyday use: the first Porsche to exceed 1,000 PS – the legendary 917/30 – meets the new Cayenne Turbo Electric at the F.A.T. Ice Race in Zell am See. The all-electric SUV also breaks the four‑digit power barrier. Two drive types, one...
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People & Profiles

Walter Röhrl – Querlenker

Not only Porsche enthusiasts all around the world, but rallying aficionados too, will appreciate the skills and achievements of Walter Röhrl. An unpretentious man who lets the race and rally reports do the talking for him, Walter Röhrl mastered many different types of motorsport in his time, from rallying to...
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Porsche Life

Ferro & Company Distinct 3 Review

Ferro & Company Distinct 3
In a life that feels like ages ago, but was really only a handful of years, I reviewed watches. As the former-founder of Watches You Can Afford, a niche watch blog focused on sub-$1,500 wristwatches, I got my wrists into more than 200 timepieces in the six years I owned...
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Motorsport & Racing

2024 HSR Spring Fling at Sebring International Raceway

Held at the Sebring International Raceway, this year’s HSR Spring Fling brought together racing enthusiasts, competitors, and spectators to celebrate the essence of historic sportscar racing. This year’s event highlighted the following races: No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium content. Get Started Already...
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