Here’s a great idea of how to showcase the Porsche Cayenne’s capabilities. Funny—Ferdinand Porsche used to design tractors early in his career. History really does have a way of recurring.

Source: Jalopnik

Oh crap, this can’t be happening. What kind of sick, demented owner would turn his Porsche into a rolling pile of garbage. Apperently, this 1968 Porsche 912’s owner absolutely did not have any idea what this car meant. Trading in its engine for a miserable 12 hp electric motor is just too painful to bear. Somebody call in artillery and tell them to smoke the darn thing.

Source: Jalopnik

Why have cars ballooned to galactic dimensions? Simple – more space and more equipment. Cars nowadays carry so much hi-tech gadgetry and comfortable amenities that they’re no longer anywhere near the curb weights of their lean, mean burning machine ancestors.

Just take this Porsche Boxster Spyder for instance. Sitting next to its granddaddy, the Porsche 550 race car, it almost seems obese. Notwithstanding the fact that it IS a Porsche, and that it has the capability to chase the Nissan GTR down the Nurburgring, still it’s colossal compared to its ancestor.

On a side note, would you rather hoon with a little weight under your belt, or be totally weightless? Of course, it depends on your skills behind the wheel. But generally, you still need a little weight to keep your tires on the ground. Generally. Not unless you’re a genius.

Source: Jalopnik

Oh yes, Porsche does have its roots in racing. But the question is, are its current models living up to that heritage? I mean, yes, the 911 is still a force to be reckoned with on the race track, being tuned left and right by different houses for all sorts of racing events including Le Mans, but come on. What about the Cayenne, or the four-door Panamera? I don’t think these two are headed anywhere near a racetrack. The ad deserves it credits for production, but in terms of being in touch with reality, I don’t think there’s any relevance. Porsche should rather rethink their marketing strategy, rather than imposing their racing heritage on a market that otherwise doesn’t care that much about racetracks. Try a soccer game or maybe drag racing clips. That might work. But not real racing. It just sends the wrong message.

Source: Autoblog

Talk about sweetening an already sweet ride. These folks in a Porsche dealership in the Netherlands hope to attract more ladies with their one-of-a-kind Porsche 911 Carrera. Their marketing tool – Swiss chocolate, all 175 kilograms of it. It’s part of the Dutch feast of Sinterklaas and was prepared using layers of cling wrap to cover the windows and body panels.

To top it off, the makers used white chocolate to cover the headlights and front turn signal lights. This German-Swiss combination will surely attract the sweet-toothed crowd. Yum yum.

Source: Jalopnik

Do you dream of driving one of Stuttgart’s finest? Well, here’s a clip of the new Porsche Boxter Spyder taking a mountain pass stroll (ahem) way past the speed limits. What the heck. The road’s all empty anyway. Enjoy.

Source: Jalopnik

Here’s something to look forward to for all you Porsche fans. The latest Porsche GT3 RS has just made an official run-slash-statement in the ‘Ring.

Lapping a heart-pounding 7:33 around the Green Hell, it’s now unofficially 4 seconds slower than the Corvette ZR1 and the Nissan GT-R. It’s also worth noting that the RS is naturally aspirated and doesn’t have a specialized all-wheel drive system.

Very impressive, if you ask me, for a 450hp 3.8-liter flat six engine. I’ve always been a fan of naturally-aspirated, rear-wheel drive cars without the sophistication of modern-day automotive systems.

I’ll say it again. Very, very impressive. Cheers to Porsche and the RS team. We’ll be looking forward to your next performance in the ‘Ring.

Source: Motor Trend

Sometimes, heroics can go overboard and get you in trouble. Two men from Canada weren’t any different when they helped a woman chase a suspected rapist. On what ride, you might ask? A Porsche 997, driving over 105 mph.

What’s funny is they were chasing a Pontiac Wave (known as the Chevrolet Aveo stateside). Details are scarce but police reports that the chase occurred on several public streets and lasted as long as 20 minutes tops. It all ended when the suspect stupidly drove into a McDonald’s drive thru and found nothing but cops eagerly awaiting their order for the day – him.

How were the police able to setup a road block in just the right fast food outlet? Well, the men in the Porsche were talking to them on their cellular while they were busily dodging pedestrians and other cars.

They’re now being hailed as heroes, while others say there’s no better than vigilantes who put other people’s lives at risk just to do good. Now, if you were in their place, what would you have done? Would you have risked people’s lives, including your own plus your Porsche 997 to catch a suspected rapist?

If that’s your way of seeking adventure, all is well. Just remember, if anybody gets hurt, it’s your ass on the hot seat, not anyone else’s. Kapiche? It’s better to leave the Bad Boys antics to the boys in blue.

Source: Autoblog

Here’s a wonderful piece of news from Stuttgart. Volkswagen is reportedly ordering Porsche to stop producing the Panamera and the Cayenne to bring back the purist attitude of the sports car brand.

We all know that VW has taken over the reigns of Porsche. It now plans to eradicate Porsche’s SUV and sedan models.

This may be bad news for Panamera and Cayenne fans alike, but for the Porsche loyalists who only drive coupes and roadsters, it’s a blessing. Finally, Porsche will be returning its focus on the type of sports cars it’s famous for.

It’ll also loosen up the competition for VW’s other sedans and SUV’s under the VW and Audi brands. VW isn’t willing to share the market under those two categories.

The change should be felt in about seven years time, just when the two models would then be outdated. But considering the other overlapping categories between the three brands, there isn’t much sense behind VW’s rationale.

If overlaps were grounds for eliminating models, then VW is duty-bound to eradicate as well the R8 to pave way for Porsches. Not much sense there. And how about VW’s other brands? Don’t they have redundant models too?
To put things in better perspective, I think VW is just exercising its iron hand over its latest acquisition. Perhaps, it’s taking revenge as well.

http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1034779_report-vw-to-kill-porsche-panamera-cayenne

Automotive journalists are supposed to have a keen nose for news, whether real or otherwise. This piece of joke, however, got the big timers laughing a bit at themselves.

Dubbed the Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake, this one-of-a-kind wagon got all automotive posters worked up. Yes, it’s the stuff of dreams. Never did they realize that it WAS the stuff dreams are made of. It’s nothing but a graphic design by an intern down at TopGear.com.

Yes, the guys down at TopGear decided to play a little joke on media, who were all too eager to swallow it up. It seems the parody was cooked up by none other than the former head of TopGear.com himself, Hared Holstein, as a farewell to his brothers in the field.

Holstein was just the mastermind, though. The real culprits are the interns down at TopGear.com.

First on the lineup is digital design student Matt DuVall. He perpetrated the graphic design using a powerful piece of software called Maya. This is the same software that was used to render visuals in Pixar movies such as Ice Age.

Holstein guided DuVall in using Porsche design specs, Panamera lines, wheels, bumpers and license plates, to render the Shooting Brake in high definition. He then superimposed the image against a washed down backdrop of a Brooklyn alley, plus some Italian music as background. The result – a seamless video which seems to have been caught by a kid in Europe using a cellphone. Perfect.

Next on the lineup is John Masters, a media student studies. This guy was directed by Holstein to send tips to automotive sites such as Jalopnik and Autoblog. He even dropped the Shooting Brake in a forum on Forza Motorsport 3 to disguise it as one of the cars featured in the game, all the while using Czech language. Is this guy good or what?

Finally, Holstein’s remark after the joke got out was, “Eh, there wasn’t any cruel intention… we manifested an automotive Liger because… it was fun to do. That said, if Porsche actually built it, I’d start stripping at bachelorette parties (again) to afford one.” How true.

So, Porsche fans. The jokes out. You can all go back to dreaming about a real Shooting Brake now.

Source(s);

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/13/shooting-fake-porsche-cayman-shooting-brake-a-i-top-gear-i-h/