Get Track Day Ready: A Driver’s Guide Finally, your day has come! You’re participating in a driver education track day. You have been itching to hit the tarmac and burn some rubber by going to the track to learn how to handle your vehicle like the precision machine it is. All the anticipation makes you…
September 12, 2016
The Inner Workings of a Porsche’s Transmission The Porsche Doppelkupplung gearbox or as it is commonly known as, the PDK gearbox, is an alternative design to what you are used to seeing in cars. Instead of a single gearbox and one clutch, the PDK system has two clutches and two drive shafts. Porsche then expertly…
August 19, 2016
The Brand Spanking New Panamera, and Why You Want It The first Panamera was launched in 2009 and it caused an uproar among many enthusiasts who were unhappy with the design, specifically the high roofline. Even though it still sold incredibly well, many felt that the Panamera didn’t have a good start and, for many,…
August 5, 2016
When Porsche unveiled the 718 Boxster, with supercharged engines and enhanced body control, sports car enthusiasts were hoping that it was only a matter of time before the more affordable Cayman received a similar treatment. Come 2016 and the wait is over: Porsche has revealed its new Cayman 718 which, for the first time, gives…
July 22, 2016
What is Active Aerodynamics? Active aerodynamics implies actively changing the shape of the car, and therefore its wind profile, while you are driving. A long list of performance aspects depends on how air flows over your car. For example, a smaller profile will have lower drag and so will a smoother profile. But if you…
July 8, 2016
New Tires to Give Your Classic Porsche a Boost As complex a piece of machinery as an automobile is and as much as it has been revolutionized, one of the few aspects of it that have remained unchanged are that your tires remain the sole link between the vehicle and the road surface. Whether you…
June 24, 2016
Why the Macan Turbo could be Porsche’s Best Every Porsche fanatic has mused about which single model in the manufacturer’s history is the maker’s best, most complete package, with a number of 911 Turbos regularly mentioned, alongside the 2004 Carrera GT and a bunch of the classics, such as the 911 Carrera RS. The question…
June 16, 2016
The Porsche Panamera That Never Was When it was first unveiled in 2009, the four-door luxury sedan Porsche Panamera left many loyalists of the brand stunned. Not only had Porsche entered an entirely new segment of the market, but here was a four-door Porsche, a dramatic departure from the 911’s iconic sports car silhouette. It…
May 31, 2016
The Battle Between Manual and Automatic Transmissions For the true motoring aficionados out there, we have reached a somewhat unsettling juncture in the great manual vs. automatic transmission debate. From smaller hatchbacks to the world’s best Porsche sports cars we love so dearly, we’re facing a very real concern: have we entered the twilight of…
May 13, 2016
A Glimpse Into The World of Porsche Innovation As every Porsche enthusiast will know, these machines are about far more than what meets the eye. Casual observers of the brand often moan about the evolutionary treatment given to Zuffenhausen’s best sports cars, but the rest of us know that it’s the mechanicals lurking beneath that…
April 22, 2016