Tag: Porsche
Cuvée 356: A Wine Commissioned by Porsche to Commemorate its Sports-Ca...
Cuvée 356 is its name: a wine specially commissioned by Porsche in commemoration of its sports-car anniversary. This exclusive symphony of wine was composed in Austria—where, some seventy years ago, the first Porsche sports car came to be.
Ever so carefully, Armin Tement measu...
A Look at Porsche’s Priceless 70-Year Collection of Over 100,000...
The Porsche Archive is based in Zuffenhausen – but that’s not the whole story. There are also thousands of design drawings housed in a basement room in the Weissach Development Center. All in all, this 70-year collection contains over 100,000 sheets.
Uwe Geisel’s movements are...
The 500HP Porsche 911 Speedster Concept
Porsche will be giving itself an excellent present for the 70th anniversary of its sports cars: the Porsche 911 Speedster Concept is a road-ready study of an open-top and particularly exciting sports car.
The anniversary model forges a link between the very first Porsche 356 ‘...
Porsche Explains Process Behind Developing Lizard Green Color for the ...
If you pose the question on the left to Barbara Sika and Daniela Milošević, their first response will be a knowing smile. The two designers develop paint colors for new Porsche models and derivatives. “The 911 GT3 RS pushes the limits of what’s technically possible, so it also ne...
Two Porsche 911 RSR Compete in Historic Livery at 2018 24 Hours of LeM...
Porsche fields two special Porsche 911 RSR at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans: The factory-run cars with the starting numbers 91 and 92 will compete sporting the traditional Le Mans liveries of the 1970s and 1980s.
The #91 contender is decked out in the iconic blue-and-white f...
Back to the Roots: How Porsche Restored The 356 “No. 1” Show Car
The “No. 1” always wore custom-made suits. Back in 1948, tinsmith Friedrich Weber spent two months clothing the first Porsche. The original apparel didn’t last very long, however, for the roadster not only changed hands many times over the years. It was damaged and repaired, mode...
Video: Mark Webber Test Drives Porsche Mission E at Weissach – &...
I’ve got many Porsche moments that will stay with me forever – winning the WEC in the 919 Hybrid would be one – and I think I've just experienced another: driving the Porsche Mission E for the first time.
It’s a game changer, this car. Quite literally, it is stealth in motion....
Porsche 911 GT3 RS Sets Another Benchmark for Road-Approved Sports Car...
Porsche works race driver Kévin Estre set a lap time in 6:56.4 minutes with the 520-hp GT3 RS. The Frenchman’s lap time was 24 seconds faster than the best time achieved with the previous GT3 RS model. Porsche development driver Lars Kern was sharing driving duties with Estre. Fo...
Le Mans Winning Porsche 919 Hybrid is Officially Faster Than Formula O...
Porsche works driver Neel Jani lapped the 7.004 kilometre long Belgian Grand Prix Circuit in the Ardennes mountains in 1:41.770 minutes. The 34 year old Swiss has beaten the previous record by 0.783 seconds that was set by Lewis Hamilton (GB) at the wheel of a Mercedes F1 W07 Hyb...
Max Hoffman and Lloyd Wright: The Common Bond Between Two of America’s...
Driving south through New York State, heading for Manhattan, cold Atlantic rain runs in rivulets up the windscreen and hammers along the taught canvas roof. Small, be-chromed wipers on a time warp 356 Cabriolet beat a furious metre, marking the rhythm of steady but rapid progress...
Tried and Tested: Ex F1 Pilot Mark Webber Puts Miles on the New Porsch...
Stuttgart was in the grip of the mother of all cold snaps, and sheltering in one of the more secretive sections of Zuffenhausen HQ that afternoon, I got my first glimpse of the all-new 911 GT3 RS. The car was counting time in the off-limits Porsche Exclusive area, box-fresh and f...
On the Attack: Porsche Ice Experience in Levi, Finland
The plane has barely touched down on the snow-dusted runway and the engines just about turned off, when all becomes quiet once more. The snow, towering a metre high, seems to swallow every noise into complete silence. Combined with the bizarre ice sculptures, the sun, wind and no...
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