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Best Driver’s Car 2010 – Porsche 911 GT3 RS
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by PB.
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is the Best Driver’s Car in the world, according to Autocar magazine.
The GT3 topped a list of 11 supercars, worth over £1,000,000 collectively, to take the top award. Staff at the magazine took the top sports cars out for a spin on the Donington race track to find the best driving car and all seven judges placed the Porsche 911 GT3 RS top of the list.
Chas Hallet, editor of Autocar, said: “The Porsche 911 GT3 RS was a clear winner; each of our seven judges placed the car at the top of their list.
“On the day of our road track testing at Donington, the GT3 RS’ drive was simply the most involving, enjoyable and satisfying of all the sports cars involved.”
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Binning the 911…and regretting it.
Posted on 09. Oct, 2010 by PB.
Owning a Porsche 911 was something that I had dreamt about for years. I remember being at school, aged 12, and watching a friend’s father pull up in a 1992, 964 Turbo. For my innocent, sheltered eyes it looked simply incredible, like nothing else, with its huge fin, frog-like headlamps and flared arches. My father had only ever had company, BMW 5 series when I was growing up; comfortable, dependable and enough space to haul the family down to the Dordogne for summer holidays.
As a 12 year old gawping at my chum’s Porsche, I could not understand how anyone could have this car AND have children. The concept of self-reward and the ability to run multiple cars for one’s enjoyment were too much for my young mind to process. I just thought cars were bought to transport families to and from school and family engagements. The concept of owning a specific car just for its sheer power, performance and road-handling was alien to me. I thought one day, if I worked hard enough, I might be able to emulate my father and get behind the wheel of a sturdy German saloon – but be in a position to have the famous Porsche shield dangling from my keys? Never.
Al is a car lover and a blogger on Make and Model, a website specialising in classifieds for used cars from dealerships all over the UK.
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Oops: Journalist’s Son Crashes $180k Porsche Press Car
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by PB.
What happened in journalist Peter Cheney’s garage was any parent’s nightmare. Peter Cheney is an automotive journalist who writes for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian news publication. Peter frequently test drives automobiles and writes reviews of his experience driving the cars. Recently, Cheney was given an opportunity to take home a Porsche 911 Turbo, valued at $180,000. Cheney was supposed to keep the car for a few days so that he could write a full review of the luxury automobile’s performance and handling. Ideally, he was supposed to return the vehicle in one piece.
Instead, Peter came home to find his garage in shambles and the Porsche badly damaged. Read on for the full story and photos!
Special thanks to our Guest Contributor: Design 911 – Porsche Parts, spares and accessories supplier based in Essex, UK.
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Deconstructing the Porsche Emblem
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by PB.
The Porsche name is recognized for superb styling on top of innovative engineering, but until 1952 the Stuttgart-based automotive manufacturer portrayed itself to the world as only that: a name. For 31 years, the Porsche brand consisted of seven sleek letters but had no face attached to its name. No mark, emblem, nor ideogram to distinguish its cars from the masses and therefore no burning scar in the minds of consumers embodying the Porsche experience and history. 
Thanks to the team at vintage racing video website RaceFansTV for guest writing this fantastic post for us. RaceFansTV is an international initiative led by motorsports enthusiasts that aims to bring back much of the great historical racing footage that has been captured since the video camera was invented. Well worth checking this fantastic new site out!
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2009 Porsche Rallye Circuit by Rallyebild.de
Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by PB.
Like ourselves, the team over at Rallyebild.de tend to get a bit excited about Porsche Rallye events. We hope that you do, too, and if so, then this video is for you. The team strive to cover every Porsche Rallye event in Germany that they can, in addition to hitting the Czech Republic and Poland circuits.
Rallyebild are a team of three individuals, one photographer and two videographers, who love and respect everything Porsche. If you feel the same, read on, because we have the 2009 Rallye specs for you, right down to the car color and driver. Take a look at their video!
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All new 500bhp 911 Turbo
Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by PB.
The seventh generation Porsche 911 Turbo is an embodiment of all things Porsche. Engineering, style, comfort, and safety all come together to provide raw unrelenting speed and a perpetual smile on the lucky driver’s face. With a cool base price of around £100,000, this road missile will carry you from 0-62 miles per hour in 3.4 seconds when coupled with the seven speed PDK transmission.
With any new model in the range, people always debate about what’s changed. Well you read it here first…it has two front seat cup holders. Honestly! The cup holders are of a mediocrity not common for Porsche, but the general consensus is that if you use the cup holders in a bloodthirsty 500-horse power speed machine, you don’t know how to drive it.
When people imagine the name ‘Porsche’, it is safe to say that a large amount instantly think of a big wing on the back of a car which always has on evil grin plastered to its face. The 911 turbo is the reason for this image. It is beautiful. It is efficient. It is cutting edge. It is fast.
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