Porsche 911 News
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Cape Town, South Africa - I'm at the wheel of the 2017 Porsche 911 GTS at Killarney Raceway behind 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marc Lieb and I'm frustrated. Lieb, in the even more powerful 911 Turbo S, is setting a leisurely pace and I want to pass him. It's not because I'm some world-class driver. Another well-meaning but less confident journalist is trailing behind and Lieb needs to keep this lead-follow trio together. The other journalist is going as fast as he can within his comfort zone. I'm going at about six tenths. This amazing piece of German engineering is barely exercised, and...
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Report: Porsche 911 GT3 to receive 4.0-liter engine, 6-speed manual
The GT3 is the last member of the 911 family yet to receive its mid-cycle update. We’ve seen a number of prototypes testing over the past year and at the 2017 Geneva auto show in March the covers will finally come off. Managers have been tight with details but in typical Porsche tradition we...
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2017 Porsche 911 GTS laps 'Ring in 7:26
The forthcoming 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS has lapped the 12.9-mile, 73-turn Nürburgring-Nordschliefe in 7 minutes 26 seconds. That's 12 seconds faster than the last 911 Carrera GTS and four seconds faster than the latest 911 Carrera S. The so-called 991.2 generation of the Carrera GTS...
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Porsche to offer track-focused 20-inch tire for 911
With the release of the 911 Carrera GTS this April, Porsche will also offer a factory approved aftermarket tire for customers who want more grip at the racetrack. The tire, a Pirelli P-Zero Corsa N0, will be offered through TireRack.com or through dealers, and fit all current 911 Carrera, GTS...
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2017 Porsche 911 GTS range unveiled, includes new Targa variant
Porsche has both expanded and updated its 911 Carrera GTS lineup for 2017. Following tradition, the GTS is both more powerful and sharper-handling than the standard 911 Carrera S, but the big news here is that there's now a Targa version on offer. That inclusion expands the 911's Carrera GTS...
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First Porsche 901 Cabriolet Prototype to be auctioned off
Long-time Motor Authority readers know the story of Porsche and its 901. The plan was to graduate from the design designated 800-series cars and move into the 900 range. The first car was the 901, which was shown at the Paris Auto Salon in 1964. Peugeot didn't take too kindly to that number scheme...
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Do you think your Porsche 911 is a little, well, over fed these days? If only there was a way to shed some of that weight without altering the lines of your precious super Beetle. Maybe you could even buff up the styling a bit while you're at it. Thanks to TopCar, a Russian aftermarket company, you can now do just that and you can do it all with glorious carbon fiber. CHECK OUT: McLaren unveils 675LT with 40 percent more carbon fiber TopCar offers a complete set of fresh body panels for your Porsche. This means a new hood, fenders, engine cover, rear spoiler, upper door sections, and side...
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Porsche 911 finally adopts mid-engine layout with 2017 RSR
Since the first 911 entered production in 1963, Porsche has been faithful to the iconic sports car’s rear-engine layout, Beetle jokes notwithstanding. But when it comes to performance, it appears Porsche has finally reached the limits of having so much mass so far out the back. How do we know...
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2017 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S: Second drive
The 911's flat-6 engine has been one of its greatest strengths. The naturally aspirated boxer engine, in displacements ranging from 3.4 to 4.0 liters created great sounds, and put out linear, tractable power that somehow delivered than its power figures would indicate. For 2017, however, Porsche...
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2017 Porsche 911 GT3 spy shots
Fans of Porsche’s track-focused 911 GT3 can look forward to an updated version of the car coming later this year. The complete 911 range is currently undergoing its mid-cycle update, with the most recent model to be updated being the Turbo. It looks like the next will be the updated GT3, and...
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1995 Porsche 911 GT2 sells for $2.4 million
Looking for a collector car for investment and think you want to get ahead of the curve on the last of the air-cooled Porsche 911s? Too late. At the RM Sotheby's London auction last week, a 1995 Porsche 911 GT2 sold for a ridiculous £1,848,000, which calculates to about $2.4 million in U.S...
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How Porsche gave the world more turbos, faster
Buried deep within the 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo is an engineering "no-duh." Talk to anyone with a cursory knowledge of the widowmaker from Stuttgart and they'll say the old Turbo 911s required three feet in any given corner: one for the brake, one for the clutch, another to feed the throttle so...
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The more the 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo talks, the more it sounds like the end. In many ways, it's coarse and gruff—the way a 911 Turbo should sound. Noise from the turbochargers force-feeding a 3.8-liter flat-6 to within an inch of its life howl through the straights, rear tires wail from roughshod grip to claw at least 540 horsepower down to the pavement, and 6-piston pinchers scrape 16-inch front rotors to slow its prodigious momentum. ALSO SEE: The Bugatti Vision GT concept ran out of fuel at Pebble Beach There's hardly a moment of silence in this car. There will be soon. Lessons...
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Singer trots out its latest reimagined Porsche 911s for Pebble
When Singer sets to work on a Porsche 911, you know the end result will be even more special than the car that initially stood before. A "standard" 964-era Porsche 911 (1989-1994) is a marvelous machine, but one "reimagined" by Singer takes it to a whole new place. Now, granted, it's quite an...
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Porsche sent a good luck note to Honda by way of 911 GT3
When an automaker is developing a new vehicle, it will often seek out examples of the competition to use in creating benchmarks to meet or beat. In the sports car universe, the go-to benchmark is quite often the Porsche 911. So when Acura was prepping its latest NSX, it looked to the 911 GT3 to...
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Webber congratulates Verstappen on Porsche 911 GT3 RS purchase
It recently emerged that Formula One driver Max Verstappen had purchased a 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Thanks to a Twitter post from Mark Webber, who ended his F1 career with Verstappen’s current team Red Bull Racing, we now know what color Verstappen chose. Shunning the more radical orange and...
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Porsche 911 R selling for almost $1.3 million on used car market
There appears to be no slowdown in the collector car market with limited edition models from prestigious marques continuing to skyrocket in value. And one of the most sought after is the 2016 Porsche 911 R, which in the United States retailed for $185,950, including destination, but on the used car...
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F1 youngster Max Verstappen buys Porsche 911 GT3 RS
Formula One driver Max Verstappen has just bought himself a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The Dutch youngster didn’t escape the hefty markup that the limited edition sports car has been attracting, however, with Swiss newspaper Blick (via Autoweek) reporting that he paid $400,000 for the car...
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The Porsche 911 GT3 is soon to receive some mid-cycle tweaks that other 911 family members such as the Carrera and Turbo have already undergone. The updated 911 GT3 is due to arrive later this year as a 2017 model, but it may just have been inadvertently revealed. Porsche of the Netherlands has launched an app that allows you to color in a 3D-rendered 911. The 911 happens to be a GT3, though not the current model. Rather, it looks like the updated model. An Autoblog.nl reader has uploaded some screen shots taken from the app. The car is clearly a GT3 but if you look closely the front bumper...
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Bentley Bentayga lines up with 911 Turbo at the drag strip
A Bentley Bentayga and Porsche 911 Turbo recently lined up at the drag strip. Considering the Porsche is one of the quickest sports cars in production and the Bentley is a big brute of an SUV, you don’t have to be a genius to predict the results. Nevertheless, it’s fun to watch the two...
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Street-legal Porsche 911 GT1 Evo racer sells for $3.14 million
One lucky enthusiast now has a very special Porsche among his or her collection. This is the only Porsche 911 GT1 race car to be converted for street use, and it was just sold at an RM Sotheby's auction in Monaco for €2.77 million (approximately $3.14 million). Handling the conversion was...
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Ultra-rare Porsche 911 Turbo Flatnose comes up for sale in U.K.
One of the rarest configurations of Porsche's classic 1989-1994 911, the 911 Turbo Flatnose, has come up for sale in a high-end British vintage car showroom. Officially known as the X4 option package, the Flatnose, or Flachbau, was released in late 1993 to mark the end of the 964-body 911 just as...
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Zolland Design comes out with tasty retro kit for the 911
Prices for older Porsche 911s have risen along with those of numerous other classics as more and more purchases are made with a view for investment rather than purely interest or collectability. This has seen new businesses that focus on making modern 911s resemble the classics flourish. One of the...
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2017 Porsche 911 first drive review
The Porsche 911 isn’t just a car. It’s car history, one of the foundation garments on the body of work that includes everything from the Model T to the Beetle to the Corvette. Catch us on the right day and we'd argue the 911 is one of the cars mankind will be measured by, if there's...
Martin Padgett