Pragmatism hasn’t always been a Porsche strong point. Take the 911 as a for instance. There are no solid engineering reasons for the engine to be slung out the back. It introduces all sorts of comprom...
There are Porsche 911s and then there is the Porsche 911 GT3. Think of this car as distilling all the qualities that has made the 911 such an iconic sports car into one package and you’re not far off ...
For a car designed as a stopgap model between the outgoing Porsche 944 and the forthcoming Boxster, the Porsche 968 was quite an achievement. Voted by Performance Car magazine the best handling car 19...
In many ways the 944 was a landmark car for Porsche, demonstrating as it did that a successful sporting model could emerge from the legendary 911’s shadow and be respected in its own right. Although t...
It may not have been the most pure 911, it’s won’t be the most collectable and it wasn’t even the quickest of its generation but the 996 generation Porsche 911 Turbo is widely renowned as the best all...
The Cayenne is the car that may have saved Porsche. With the Boxster growing old and sales of the 996-series 911 tailing off, the Weissach company needed a rapid injection of profitability and the Cay...
There’s something wonderfully incorrect about a soft top Porsche 911. The first thing to remember is that this is a technically brilliant car. The other consideration you’ll need to have tucked away i...
* Introduction
Porsche is a company that values its traditions and its independence yet when that independence was threatened in the nineties, it reverted to type, attempting to prove itself in compe...
"The only automobile that you could use to compete in the East African Safari or at Le Mans, drive to the theatre or thread through New York city traffic." The theory, by Ferry Porsche. The fact: Pors...
An introduction? You want an introduction to the Porsche 911 Carrera 2? If you’re thinking of buying one of these modern classics and feel the need for an introduction, may I humbly suggest your money...
The Porsche Boxster is a mightily impressive sports car. Marketing staff at Porsche GB have even been heard to mutter that it’s too good, poaching more profitable sales from the legendary 911 range. A...
Improving on the Boxster has to be one of motoring’s toughest assignments but that was the position Porsche’s designers and product planners found themselves in at the turn of the millennium. The firs...
Improving on the Boxster has to be one of motoring’s toughest assignments but that was the position Porsche’s designers and product planners found themselves in at the turn of the millennium. The firs...
Improving on the Boxster has to be one of motoring’s toughest assignments but that was the position Porsche’s designers and product planners found themselves in at the turn of the millennium. The firs...
If ever a sports car could be described as a legend, the Porsche 911 is it. Around in one form or another for over a quarter of a century, the 911 had carved a reputation as a slightly malevolent, air...
Rarely have we seen a car arrive that dominated its class as comprehensively as the Porsche Cayman. Before this purposeful coupe was launched, all sorts of manufacturers were making very good money wi...
Rarely have we seen a car arrive that dominated its class as comprehensively as the Porsche Cayman. Before this purposeful coupe was launched, all sorts of manufacturers were making very good money wi...
Rarely have we seen a car arrive that dominated its class as comprehensively as the Porsche Cayman. Before this purposeful coupe was launched, all sorts of manufacturers were making very good money wi...
"We can modify the 911, hone and improve it, but we must never alter either its character or its unmistakable appearance." So opined Ferry Porsche in 1993 at the launch of the 993-series Porsche 911. ...
If the 996 generation of the Porsche 911 was the period when the car matured, the 997 series saw the car develop an even more polished sheen. Where it was once quite easy to see the Volkswagen DNA in ...
In 1938 Hendrick Goosen, whilst fishing off the coast of Madagascar, hooked a coelacanth, a ‘living fossil’ of a fish that was supposed to have become extinct 400 million years ago. You can experience...
It’s a little odd to think that a good quantity of classic Porsches are soft tops whereas these days a 911 with a fabric roof is seen by some purists as decidedly infra dignitatem. Let the elitists mu...
Of all the versions of the 996 generation Porsche 911 offered, the GT2 is the most controversial. It’s the fastest, scariest, most focused and most expensive and divides opinion like no other recent 9...