Posts Tagged ‘Porsche

From the Porsche archives: Carmine Red and the Panamera GTS

From the Porsche archives: Carmine Red and the Panamera GTS

Porsche has launched the most driver-focused Panamera to date with the LA Motor Show debut of the Panamera GTS.  And, pleasingly, the firm has looked to the past for its ...

August 2011: what is Porsche up to at the moment?

August 2011: what is Porsche up to at the moment?

Porsche is not phasing out the 997 just yet. Nor is it admitting the 991 is actually on the way.  That’s despite prototype tests of the 911, in which many ...

The auto brands Lotus has links with

The auto brands Lotus has links with

Lotus is the car company that wants to be associated with everyone at the moment.  Or should it be Lotus is the car company everyone wants to be associated with? ...

VW shows good Karmann

VW shows good Karmann

Volkswagen has saved the home to one of its most famous cars. Fittingly, it’s with the car that later saved the brand when the Beetle was substituted from the mainstream. ...

Porsche misses obvious weight saving tweak

Porsche misses obvious weight saving tweak

The Porsche Boxster Spyder is 80kg lighter than the Porsche Boxster S, which is a praiseworthy weight saving. However, I know a way it could have been an 80.0014kg weight ...

Why do motoring journos love watches?

Why do motoring journos love watches?

Motoring journos have a bit of a thing for watches. No doubt because our lives are non-stop mad dashes against the clock. Nothing to do with a love of nice ...

How to make a motoring journalist happy

How to make a motoring journalist happy

Mad cars and people who are mad about cars? Makes for a perfect day. So it proved this week when I was given a double dose of why-I-love-the-jobbery. For Total ...

VIDEO: Porsche 911 Turbo on test

VIDEO: Porsche 911 Turbo on test

CAR feature photo shoots consist of artists doing their magic and journos doing all they can to actually be useful. We clean the cars, polish their wheels, shuffle them about ...

Lotus shows how to enrage the motoring journo

Lotus shows how to enrage the motoring journo

LOTUS this week fired up an apoplectic rage of motoring journos exploring ingeniously creative alternative takes on the image of Colin Chapman spinning in his grave (I respectfully bowed out ...

MINI engines now 3-in-1

MINI engines now 3-in-1

HOW do you make a MINI One engine? Make a MINI Cooper engine and detune it. Simples. It’s true, as well. All 1.6-litre MINI engines, be they in the First, ...