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A Brief History On The Iconic Flat 6 Engine

The Flat 6 is one of the most unique-sounding engines in motorsport, and has been used by multiple brands throughout history. In order to experience a modern flat 6 engine, your only options are Subaru and Porsche. With Subaru retiring their EZ line of flat 6 engines in 2019, the 911 and GT4 are the only car’s still…

How Does The Porsche PDK Transmission Work?

Ah transmissions… A bit of a sore point with the performance motoring community is whether stick shift is better than automatic. To understand the PDK transmission, we are going to look at both types and answer that age-old question, is it possible to have your cake and eat it? What’s In A Name: Before we…

What’s In Store For The Porsche 911 Facelift?

It’s that time of the 911 lifecycle. The time that any seasoned Porsche aficionado will pick up their ears. We’re talking about the mid-cycle (4-year) facelift. This is the big one, boys, the 992.2… What’s new? As we’ve previously said, improving perfection is difficult. Much of this will be based on conjecture and a couple…

An Exclusive Look At The 2023 Porsche 911 Safari

Who would have thought that the crossover craze would hit a Porsche 911? A higher riding 911 Safari is in prototype mode, with some serious testing in motion. Familiar features from the recent 911 facelift combine with distinctive all-new design features. We take an exclusive look at the 2023 Porsche 911 Safari. Dakar Inspiration With…

The Porsche 911 Hybrid Is Set To Launch, Are You Ready?

If we asked you to pick one vehicle that was quintessentially Porsche, what would you choose? I think we could all agree on one model. The 911 is Porsche. However, times are changing. Mr. Musk has proven that the future is electric. Add the rising fuel price and constricting emissions standards and you have a…

The 911 GT3 Is All About The Numbers, Baby

Porsche’s naturally aspirated rear-wheel-drive supercar killing track weapon is back with a whole new body and has the performance figures to back it up. Yes, we can only be talking about the all-new 992 generation 911 GT3, and if we’re being honest, it scares us just as much as it excites us! The GT3’s Performance…

This Is It: The New 473bhp Porsche 911 GTS

The French love to say, ‘vive la difference!’ Celebrating the difference is especially applicable to the new Porsche 911 GTS. Those three letters denote a hard-won period of Porsche’s history. They freely admit to drawing inspiration from the 904 GTS race car from the 1960s. According to Porsche, GTS means, ‘a carefully curated combination of…

Limitless: A Look At The 2022 Porsche 911 GT3

How do you perfect perfection? The only way to answer this is to ask the masters, the company that has been doing it for more than 50 years. We went and asked Porsche. While the design specifications and prototypes of the new 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 have been released, they are not out for test…

Bulletproof Porsche 911

When people talk about bulletproof cars, they tend to mean one of two things. Either a car that is literally bullet resistant, or a car that is so reliable, not even a direct hit from a bullet could stop it. The 996 generation 911 and bullet proof rarely fit in the same sentence, due to…

The Latest Porsche News About The New GT3 RS

The 992 generation Porsche 911 has been with us since 2019. Porsche only announced the GT3 in mid-December, with only a handful of journalists being allowed to drive the prototype. Spy shots of the upcoming GT3 RS in prototype form have already been spotted testing on the Nürburgring and the surrounding areas. While there is…