Few cars on the road today have as wide a performance range as the Porsche 911. Starting out as a 379 hp (385 PS/283 kW) sports car, if you’re willing to spend (considerably) more you get one of the fastest production cars on earth around a race track. And while the accomplishments of the 911 […]
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German company TechArt is known for offering a comprehensive range of tuning options for Porsches. Their latest project still has to do with a Porsche, namely the 911, but in a different way, since we’re talking about a police car created in collaboration with the initiative “TUNE IT! SAFE!”. The Techart Cabriolet is based on […]
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From smartphones to sneakers, we’ve largely come to expect that what we can buy on one side of the Atlantic is, more or less, the same as what our cousins are picking up on the other side of the sea. And when it comes to cars, that’s often the case. Minor details aside, North America’s […]
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While Porsche is already offering countless variants of the 992, there is a special one coming up in the following years. We are talking about the long-rumored 911 Safari which is set to revive the rally-prepped 911s of the past. Our spy photographers caught the model during testing on public roads, with minimum camouflage hinting […]
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When Hans Mezger passed away in 2020, he left behind a legacy of remarkable engineering. He was the man behind the development of countless Porsche engines, including the air-cooled six-cylinder boxer engine of the 911, the 12-cylinder engine in the 917, and the TAG Turbo engine that took both Niki Lauda and Alain Prost to […]
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The black Porsche 911 Turbo that appeared in the original 1995 film “Bad Boys” will be auctioned this January in Kissimmee, Florida by Mecum. This is the actual car that was driven by Will Smith’s character as proven by certificates of authenticity from both Porsche and Columbia Pictures. The iconic movie car is a late example of […]
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A steering wheel can make or break a car. Just ask anyone who’s tried to make a three-point turn in a yoke-equipped Tesla. Your seat aside, it’s the only constant point of contact with the car, it’s the tool you use to keep your ride out of the trees, and a great one can have […]
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Theon Design has today unveiled its take on a “sympathetically supercharged” 3.6-liter flat-six that will go into a restomodded Porsche 964 911. The engine is capable of delivering 450 hp (456 PS/335 kW). “We wanted to deliver additional performance but also maintain the seamless delivery of a Porsche naturally-aspirated engine, so chose a Rotrex centrifugal […]
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A number of very special cars were showcased to the world at last week’s SEMA Show and these included a particularly electrifying (or is that Tesla-fying?) 964-generation Porsche 911. The restomod 911 in question comes from a company dubbed Electric GT and features an eGT913 powertrain that also fits Porsche 912 models. This system consists […]
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You might have heard the old gag that 911s are just Beetles with a fancy body. Well, in its latest drag race video CarWow pitted a modern 911 GT3 RS against a 1972 VW Beetle. Except that it isn’t a normal Beetle. This example has had its old-fashioned flat-four replaced with the motor out of […]
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