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FIRST DRIVE: Singer’s DLS Project: the best Porsche 911? £2mil, 9,300rpm restomod on road & track Here it is, the Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer – Dynamics and Lightweighting Study (DLS, if you value your time). It’s the answer to the simplest of questions: “What if we pursued the ultimate,...
1987 Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera Sport Targa at the top of the Black Mountain Pass (A4069) in South Wales My journey (Chris Stretton) to Porsche ownership started when I was still a teenager in the 1960s. My father, Lionel Stretton, was a serious petrol-head owning many different cars and competing...
When discussing off-road capable cars, the primary focus is on pickup trucks and SUVs. While compact performance cars with off-road capabilities and a rallying legacy are also considered, the prevalence of SUVs has made their performance variants the most prominent in the off-road performance scene. Porsche and Lamborghini, however, have...
Top Gear Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Review The Porsche Taycan EV has ripped up the rule book on road, now it wants to dominate everything else as well… This is the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, the most complete fast estate available today. And perhaps the best electric car, too. To celebrate...
Automakers often tout their “racing heritage” influencing production vehicles, but Porsche truly exemplifies this. Porsche began racing with the lightweight 356, but their reputation soared with the “giant killer” 550 Spyder. Throughout the mid-1960s, Porsche focused on race cars like the 550, 718, RS, and RSK models. They expanded their...
Sub-four-second 0-60s and 600bhp are performance figures that were once exclusively the domain of supercars, but not these days… In the first installment of Stig’s Garage, we take two of the fastest SUVs on the market and pit them against each other on the Top Gear Test Track. Which one...
Top Gear 992 GT3 Review Petrolheads, assemble: it’s a new 992 Porsche 911 GT3. Which is basically like saying ‘it’s a new Bowie album’ to the music nerds. This is benchmark sports car, the one by which the steering feel, chassis composure and engine response of every other supposed supercar...
Porsche 911 Turbo S | Chris Harris Drives | Top Gear The Porsche 911 Turbo S has always been a bit of an enigma, so how does this new, 991.2 face lifted version fare? We dispatched Chris Harris to one of the world’s greatest racetracks – Kyalami, in South Africa...
Top Gear’s £1500 Porsche Challenge The Top Gear boys are all given £1500 to buy a second hand Porsche. As the Top Gear production team provide a variety of challenges to put their purchases to the test, who will come out victorious as the best bargain buyer, and who will...
Tuthill’s GT One, revealed at the 2024 Monterey Car Week, is a street-legal supercar featuring a carbon fiber body. Every detail, from the sculpted tail with an integrated spoiler to the roof-mounted air intake and custom wheels, is expertly crafted. The car boasts LED lighting with a signature Porsche aesthetic,...
Porsche, synonymous with automotive excellence, has left an indelible mark on the world of cars for over seven decades. While its motorsport triumphs are legendary, it’s the road-going vehicles that truly define the brand’s legacy. Tom Ford from Top Gear magazine stumbled upon a warehouse that houses a priceless collection...
Porsche 997 GT2 RS versus 991 GT2 RS Porsche’s 991 GT2 RS remains the most powerful and fastest 911 ever built, able to deploy 700 horsepower with a lightning-quick seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and lap the Nürburgring in 6 minutes and 47 seconds. The 997 GT2 RS isn’t quite as...
Top Gear had the opportunity to drive the 1,073-hp Porsche Mission R Concept Porsche has two major goals with the Mission R Concept that debuted in September 2021. On the one hand, this compact all-electric supercar is a preview of the next-generation Cayman EV. While we doubt the production car will...