Of Note

PCNA looks for oldest Porsches, searches for passionate fans

Update 9/1/2010: Revive the Passion The Porsche Club of America announced that it will raffle off a 1973 911T — fully restored by Porsche Classic — to one lucky PCA member…

Porsche 550 Spyder 60 years ago. Photo courtesy Porsche

Porsches victorious at Mosport after red flag ends race

The Muscle Milk RS Spyder and #45 Flying Lizard GT3 RSR both finished at the front of their respective classes in round 8 of the American Le Mans Series at Canada’s Mosport, keeping Klaus Graf, driving the RS Spyder, in contention for the LMP drivers championship and further cementing the #45’s lead in the GT class drivers championship…

Klaus Graf/Romain Dumas Muscle Milk Porsche RS Spyder. Photo courtesy PCNA

GT3 R Hybrid drivers announced for Petit Le Mans race

The 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans winners (in an Audi R15 TDI prototype) Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, and Mike Rockenfeller will compete in the ALMS Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta on October 2…

The GT3 R Hybrid at the 2010 Nüburgring 24 hour race. Photo courtesy Porsche.

Italian team builds Panamera race car

A team known for building Alfa Romeo, Fiat, and Ferrari race cars is testing the waters with its new Panamera S racer…

The Panamera S battles it out amongst other V8 four-door race cars. Photo courtesy N. Technology

918 Spyder walk-around in Monterey

Monterey, California—After green-lighting its 918 Spyder concept for production, Porsche is presenting the car at the annual car week in Monterey…

918 Spyder Preproduction Analysis 1

Porsche qualifies eighth at Mid-Ohio

Flying Lizard Motorsports’ driver Patrick Long qualified his GT3 RSR eighth — almost a second slower than the fastest Ferrari F430GT — at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course after winning the last race at Lime Rock Park…

Falken RSR qualified over a second slower than Flying Lizard Motorsports' RSR. Photo: Bob Chapman

'I think you need to check your mirrors and point people by'

If you’ve driven at a drivers’ ed event, chances are you’ve seen a situation similar to this one…

Photo: YouTube

918 Spyder, other new and rare Porsches to be shown in Monterey

The Porsche 918 Spyder — just approved for production — will make its first North American debut at this year’s Monterey Classic Car Weekend, starting August 9 and ending August 15…

From left to right: 918 Spyder, Cayenne S hybrid, and GT3 R Hybrid

Why only expensive cars have carbon-ceramic brake rotors

Carbon ceramic rotors are expensive, as any owner of a Porsche so equipped can attest to…

918 Spyder gets green light, Porsche testing electric Boxsters

Those who hoped Porsche would take the radical 918 Spyder hybrid sports car into production are in luck…

The 3.4-liter V8 in the concept car will eventually be switched for a larger unit. 4.6 liters is the target. Photo: Porsche
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