Phew. For a moment there it looked touch and go, like the sports car might die with the engine. Not on Porsche’s watch. Meet the electric 911 and Cayman/Boxster
Porsche rarely, if ever, follows any other automaker’s lead, but Colin Chapman’s maxim of “add lightness” was taken to heart by Zuffenhausen’s former motorsport director, Ferdinand Piëch.
Porsche design chief Michael Mauer has hinted that he has already conceived how the design of a future electric 911 could work, but insisted such a model is unlikely to appear before 2030
This just looks like a blacked-out 911, right? The stickers in the window tell a different, electrified story. Porsche has been open about developing a hybrid 911, and we’ll see it when the 992.2 midlife refresh arrives in a couple of years
With a production run of no more than thirty cars, Porsche Motorsport is celebrating twenty-five years of Manthey-Racing with an extraordinary new GT2 RS Clubsport designed exclusively for track days and circuit racing.
Historics Auctioneers contactedus with details of a star-studded line-up of classicPorsches due to go under the hammer at thefirm’s Ascot Racecourse auction on Saturday 25th September
This MoTeC M130 ECU tuning package from air-cooled Porsche engine specialist, Rasant, allows modifiers with air-cooled 911s loaded with individual throttle bodies (ITB) to tune their engines based off the throttle position sensor
Porsche continues to tease enthusiasts with public rollouts of a possible safari-specification 992, with a mule riding with significant ground clearance seen at the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
To any automotive or motorsport enthusiast, the 917 needs no introduction, though it’s the car’s short-tail coupe form that truly ignites the passions of Porsche enthusiasts most strongly.