With Stuttgart neighbor Mercedes on the rampage, Porsche had trouble on the track in the late 1990s GT1 era. But...
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Still affordable, still respected The Porsche 987.1 Cayman, introduced in 2006, was born out of a desire to offer a...
North America gets Porsche’s GTS-branded 911 First Europe, then North America The 991.1 GTS was the second 911 offered as...
In the current era of Grand Prix and sports car racing, there is virtually no such thing as a new...
The 7-figure 911 will solve all of life’s problems Many of us, including myself, continue to watch in disbelief as...
Proven through competition Engineering, design, innovation; while the list is long for what describes the Porsche name, it can be...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
The terms Porsche and racing have now become virtually synonymous. In no small part, this is due to the German...
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You have to agree with me that the Porsche 911 Turbo has been a masterpiece straight from the start, you...
In complete honesty, I am guilty of amassing far too many books and magazine collections on European sportscars, especially Porsche....
It started with the Porsche 356 As we all know, the 356 was the first globally sold car made by...
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Overview of the Porsche 718 Revealed in 2016, the Porsche 718 was the third generation Boxster/Cayman. Strictly speaking, it was...
Porsche, as we all know, is a name that is synonymous with clean, simple lines that highlight the peak of...
The Porsche 996 There’s nothing really “entry level” about a Porsche 911 as a whole, and the 996-generation is responsible...
THE HISTORY The Porsche 963 follows on from a long line of successful cars and racing successes. Ferdinand Porsche started...
Factory recommissions the famous Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The recommissioning has been carried out over the past few months by the...
Overview The GT3s are the low volume 911s, road-going production cars homologated for what was Group 3 competition. The original...
It took Porsche twenty years before deciding to modernise its 911, yet outwardly, apart from its bumpers, the new 964...
By Miles Collier The Mighty Porsche Carrera 6 I’ve had my 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 (906-125) in restoration for the...
Written by: Glen Smale Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG...
Once the Boxster was established, it was only a matter of time before a coupé version appeared. When the Cayman...
In the past, we have covered a Type 964 911 Carrera 2 Speedster, a Type 986 Boxster spec race car,...
Who Wants A Street-Legal F1 Engined Porsche? We recently took a look at the TAG-Turbo 911 (Powered by Lanzante) and today...
Porsche TAG-Turbo Lanzante Porsche 930 TAG-Turbo. During the 80s, Porsche was supplying 1.5L turbocharged V6 engines to McLaren F1 team...
Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Porsche 917 was the culmination of a line of...
After bodywork testing with the prototype 934, 930 670 0001, the Porsche factory built its first 935 to actually race...
1976 saw 31 customer 934 cars built. Chassis numbers run from 930 670 0151 to 0180 (plus 930 670 0540)....
When the idea came up of producing a series of race cars for the mainly-amateur racers who drove such GT...
Sports car racing went through some turbulent times in the early 1970’s. At the start (1970) the world championship was...
Porsche 911 GT3 Buyer’s Guide (991 & 992) Over the past 2 decades, the Porsche 911 GT3 models—and their variants,...
As we approach the 10 year mark since the Porsche 918 Spyder arrived onto the roads of the world, we...
After 40 years, the most successful Porsche race car – the Porsche 956 – ever was reunited with its drivers...
Let’s face it, the Porsche 911 was the most successful model produced by Porsche in the 20th century, and it...
Images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale and Corporate Archives Porsche AG The Porsche 908 is widely regarded as one of the...
There’s hardly a brand more connected to sports cars than Porsche. To this very day, the iconic Porsche 911 remains...
The Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0, which was produced for only 2 years in 1976 and 1977, is a very special...
Germany? Austria? Japan? To understand where ground zero is for the world’s largest 356-only Concours, let’s first go back to...
Modifying cars is nothing new—in fact, there’s a multi-hundred-billion-dollar industry backing this hobby. It’s the primary reason many of us...
It Has Been A Long Time Coming Porsche 911 Carrera prices increased by more than 50% during the last years....
There are many legendary Porsche racing cars that command respect for their legacy, their series of wins in a season,...
When I’m not helping to sell the occasional old race car, or visiting old race car meetings, I’ve usually got...
Thirty years after its inception, the 1992 Porsche 964 Carrera Cup USA Edition continues to establish its footing in the...
Chassis No: 911 460 9029 Engine No: 684 0053 Prod. No: 104 2302 G/box No: 716 1222 (15/1) Colour: White/Gold...
My first “real” racing car was a Porsche RS/R, which I bought in the mid-1980s. Previously, I had done quite...
Imagine, if you will, that you are in Paris, France, in October 1972. There is an automobile show, a fairly...
There are 935s, and then there are 935s… Although almost a hundred Porsche 935s were built between 1975 and 1984,...
When I first started writing my book, “R to RSR: The Racing Porsche 911s” in 1987, whilst living in England,...
People usually recall the Chevrolet Corvair as the car that was “unsafe at any speed” which is rather unfair because...
This weekend, on April 8-10, the streets of Southern California will host the Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by...
This story covers the development of the Porsche 911 RS/RSR prototype in the middle of 1972. Surprisingly, the very first...
The 914/6 was the Porsche-engined version of the 914, the joint venture sports car designed by Porsche and built at...
The premise was disarmingly simple: a race bringing together the best drivers in motorsport, all competing in identical cars, in...
There are 934s, and there are 934s… The Porsche 934 has long lived in the shadow of its more powerful...
Development of the 1979 Kremer-Porsche K3 Kremer Racing, headed up by the two brothers Erwin and Manfred, from Cologne, Germany,...
Ed note: The history of specific chassis used in notable races decades ago can be hard to verify but are...
Porsche is well known for its limited production runs of both its road cars and race cars. This makes those...
Porsche 356 SL bodies lined up in the Reutter workshop (Werk 2) in 1951. This facility was used as the...
In 1977, to participate in the SCCA Trans-Am championship, American pilot Monte Shelton and, concurrently, owner of Monte’s Motors Co....
991 Carrera GT3 Cup Champions & Results ...
997 Carrera Cup Champions & Results The 997 GT3 Cup was introduced in January 2005 for the upcoming racing season....
The silhouette is familiar. With weaves of carbon fiber covering almost every external surface, the Porsche 935/19 cuts an unmistakable...
Having spent its early days as a test and development hack, this 911 Carrera RSR rose to the occasion when pressed into...
996 Carrera Cup Champions & Results Two weeks after the 996 Carrera, the 996 GT3 Cup car was introduced for...
The weather had been warm all week, but on race day, the heavens opened just in time for the start,...
The Porsche 917 – What They Said We found some great interviews from back in the day on what drivers...
Some say this was the best Daytona 24 hour ever. It certainly was the closest finish up to that point...
This is the story of the International Race of Champions Porsche Carrera 911 RSRs and the drivers who raced them....
There was hardly a Porsche enthusiast who wasn’t deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Porsche’s favourite...
How our man, Richard Wiley, came to be the custodian of two Porsche 911s over a period of nearly nine...
Nick Faure was one of the first to race a 911 in Britain: he won the saloon car championship in...
Originally a showroom demonstrator, this 911 set the market buzzing, winning the UK’s inaugural rallycross and the British Saloon Car...
She was manufactured in 1958, and much of her early life is unrecorded. But in 2004, a customer of Gantspeed...
Hot off the press, so to speak, is Berlin Motor Books’ latest offering covering the 911 G-Model, and what an...
Although it is not widely known, one of the most successful Porsche powered race cars ever, was not a Porsche....
Very different from previous production Porsches, the 914 was an attempt by Zuffenhausen to introduce a lower cost model. Commercially...
Inspiration for this feature came from the post published by Porsche in December 2020. It covers the seven generations of...
The history of Porsche sportscars is peppered with iconic models that stand out as special, from the earliest models to...
A Spanish noun, ‘carrera’ can mean road, track or race and since the 1970s ‘Carrera’ has been a model name...
JLP-4 was the final race car in the line of Porsche 935 specials built for the John Paul father and...
The phone rang, it was my old friend Carlos de Quesada. “I’ve just bought a 935 to restore,” he told...
This is Stéphane Coradi’s third publication, and the third of his books that I am reviewing. It must be said...
There is a model in Porsche’s family line-up that receives little coverage and, as a result, it does not enjoy...
1973 saw a return to normality for the Daytona 24-hour race. The distance was set back at 24 hours, after...
Arno Bohn was managing director of Porsche from 1990-92. An outsider who came from the computer industry, he arrived at...
The GT2 has been Porsche’s top performing roadgoing turbo model since ‘95, but the addition of the ‘RS’ lifts this...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covers the 1970s in his well-known and valuable decade-by-decade history of the Le...
Today, Porsche can boast a total of 19 overall victories together with countless class successes in the 24 Hours of...
Simply titled, SportErfolge (English: Success in Sport), this book came my way quite by surprise. It is not a book...
The introduction of the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, to give it its full name, marked the beginning of an unprecedented...
America has for decades been Porsche’s biggest market, and this was important for the young and growing company. In some...
Autoblog today published an in depth article investigating the new aerodynamic features of the upcoming 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S. Not...
When the second edition of this fine publication was released back in April 2019 in German, I enquired immediately as...
It was Max Hoffman, the New York-based Porsche importer, who was instrumental in getting the factory to produce a lightweight...
