Porsche 911 News
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Porsche isn't done with its celebrations for its 70th anniversary this year. Having already built a highly authentic replica of its very first sports car, as well as unveiling a spiritual successor in the form of the 911 Speedster concept, Porsche is now working on a restomod based on a classic 911. Called Project Gold, Porsche is documenting the build via a series of videos on its YouTube channel and will unveil the completed design on August 24. The world debut won't take place until September 27 at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca, however. Judging from the videos released so...
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Martini-liveried Porsche 911 GT2 RS pays homage to the "Moby Dick" 935/78The Porsche 935 is a motorsports legend, and the 935/78 is a special car among special cars. Known as "Moby Dick" for its white color and long tail, the 1978 version of the 935 was an instant stunner even though it never finished where Porsche expected. The legacy of the original lives on today...
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The Keen Project Safari 911 first drive review: a time machine for any adventure
Chad was running late, and we were already pressed for time. This entire plan was rushed and slapped together via a phone call and a few text messages over the weekend. The Keen Project Safari 911 build No. 2 by former race car driver Lehman Keen was in Minneapolis for a short time to celebrate...
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Interview: Lehman Keen, the man behind The Keen Project Safari 911
Lehman Keen is best known for building Safari Porsche 911s, but before that he was a professional race car driver with a childhood that revolved around Porsches. Naturally, his racing career mostly centered on Porsches, and at one point he worked for Hurley Haywood. Like everything in life, there...
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Singer and Williams go into detail on their lightweight 911
California Porsche restorer Singer Vehicle Design last year teamed up with Williams Advanced Engineering, the technology offshoot of the Williams Formula 1 team, to use the latest engineering knowledge, including some F1 techniques, to transform an original air-cooled Porsche 911 into the ultimate...
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Theon Design is the British Singer, for much less
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then where does that leave "re-imagination"? That's the term Singer uses when it turns a 964-generation Porsche 911 into a glorious restomod. A company in the U.K. is working on the same formula to restore and recreate old Porsches. Theon Design is...
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Homologation. It's the racing rule that results in some of the world's greatest road cars. To race, many cars have to be homologated, which means they have to have a number of street-legal counterparts to prove they're part of a brand's production line. Sitting high on this list of all-time homologated greats is the Porsche 911 GT1 Evo, and this is the story of how that car came to be. In the mid 1990s, the FIA created a new racing class called the BPR Global GT Series. The goal was to pit supercars against one another after they'd been crafted into true racing machines. However, for an...
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2020 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet spy shots and video
Porsche is out testing a new generation of the 911, the 992, and the latest prototype spotted is for the car's Turbo Cabriolet variant. The new 911 will be revealed late this year or early next, initially in Carrera and Carrera S guises. The 911 Turbo should trail the basic models by six months to...
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2018 Porsche 911 GT3 first drive review: Country roads and chicken livers
There’s one place where you can get great fried chicken livers on a Sunday morning in Georgia, before church is out. It’s a low-ceiling kind of place, tacked on to a gas station, the hallmark of fine low-priced dining across the south. Over the first glorious spring weekend this year, I...
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Porsche celebrates 70 years with video tribute
"We are what nobody needs, but everyone wants." That's a hell of a statement, but it's one that Porsche can certainly make, and the brand does just that in this video tribute to 70 years of building sports cars. This video is not a deep dive into Porsche's history. Instead, it's a quick and...
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Mark Webber drives 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, calls it a "brutal little weapon"
The 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS delivers a world-class sports car experience for even the most ham-fisted of folks. Put the car in the hands of someone truly talented, however, and it becomes a potently fast beast capable of dishing out supercar-rivaling performance. Or, as Mark Webber puts it, the...
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Porsche 911 Speedster Concept honors brand's 70-year anniversary
On June 8, 1948, the first Porsche 356 Roadster received its operating permit. Porsche celebrated that milestone Friday with a "70 years of Porsche Sports Cars" event in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany. And what better way to link to the past than to reveal a concept car that pays homage to that...
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Porsche is working on its next-generation 911 and the automaker has indicated that hybrid technology will play a role. However, we've now learned that it could play a bigger role than previously thought. Auto Express reported Thursday that the next 911, code-named the 992 and due on sale in 2019, will have at least two hybrid variants: a mid-range variant and a range-topper. It was previously thought that only a range-topping variant was coming, possibly badged a 911 Turbo S E-Hybrid and delivering 700 horsepower. The British publication reports that the mid-range variant would likely pair...
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2018 Porsche 911 Carrera T first drive review: the way forward for a classic
The scene in the rearview mirror of the 2018 Porsche 911 Carrera T is remarkably clear. It’s all high-definition vineyards and crystal-clear coastline, for as long as I dare look back. Why it’s so clear: Engineers fitted thinner rear and side windows that are not only 6 pounds lighter...
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Watch the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS at play on the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is wrapped by a seemingly endless twisting, undulating sliver of tarmac that's as beautiful as it is dangerous. Certain sections of the road have no speed limits. It's the home of the most dangerous event on the motorsports calendar. It's also the perfect place to grab a 2019...
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Wolfgang Porsche shares his top 5 favorite Porsches
Dr. Wolfgang Porsche is the grandson of Porsche found Ferdinand Porsche. His older brother Butzi designed the 911. Wolfgang is a competent metalworker in his own right, but he's not getting his hands dirty these days. Dr. Porsche (how cool would that look on a business card?) helps run the good...
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2019 Porsche 911 GT3 R race car revealed
Porsche has introduced a major update for the GT3 R racing version of its 911 sports car designed for the 2019 motorsport season. The 911 GT3 R represents the middle tier of 911 race cars, sandwiched between the 911 GT3 Cup and 911 RSR, and is most closely aligned with the 911 GT3 RS road car. As...
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Is Porsche testing a track-only version of its 911 GT2 RS?
Porsche's 911 GT2 RS is already the fastest production car around the Nürburgring but a quicker version designed strictly for track use may be in the works. Porsche over the past six months has been testing a GT2 RS fitted with additional air vents, a more aggressive rear wing borrowed from...
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The Weissach package from Porsche turns a good sports car into focused track machine, usually by reducing the weight or improving the aero, or both. Typically, this is a package only offered on the most hardcore Porsche products. We're talking the 918 Spyder, 911 GT2 RS and the 911 GT3 RS. Perhaps down the road however, Porsche could extend the Weissach goodies into other lower-tier models in the family. "I think saving weight makes sense in all cars nowadays," Andreas Preuninger, who heads the development of Porsche's GT models, explained to Digital Trends in an interview published Tuesday...
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2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS sets 6:56.4 Nürburgring lap time
It's a Porsche RS so you know it's going to be fast but we bet you'd have never guessed that the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS could lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes. Remember, this is a sports car equipped with a naturally aspirated six-cylinder. But somehow Porsche has done it, with a...
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Porsche CEO says there will never be an all-electric 911, but maybe 718
Porsche has big plans to electrify its vehicle portfolio in the years to come, but said plans will not include a purely electric 911. According to a report from Automotive News Europe published last Sunday, Oliver Blume, Porsche CEO, told reporters at the company's annual results conference that...
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More for less: 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Weissach package adds dollars, cuts weight
Weissach is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that is the home to Porsche's research and development headquarters. It's where much of the engineering that makes Porsches so magical is done, and it also boasts a test track. Porsche is so proud of the work done in Weissach that it has begun...
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Here are the Top 5 reasons you'll love the Porsche 911 GT2 RS
Porsche loves cranking out Top 5 videos. Usually though, it factors in five models that fit a given topic. Today's different because the sole attraction in this Porsche video is the 2018 911 GT2 RS. We still have five things to talk about. So let's dive into the Top 5 thrilling attributes on the...
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Follow the restoration of an uber-rare Porsche 911 Carrera RS
Many of the older Porsche 911 models produced could be classified as sought after collectibles. Seemingly any old Porsche sees high market returns right now. Certain models, however, set Porsche collector hearts a flutter. The 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 is one of those models. Recently...
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