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The fully electric next-generation Porsche Macan will finally go on sale in 2024 after multiple delays, and Porsche’s original plan was for the current gas-powered Macan to soldier on alongside the new Macan EV for at least a couple of model years. According…

If you have a Porsche Taycan Turbo S electric super sedan, and you spend a lot of time at full throttle over 100 miles per hour, you might have noticed that your car has gotten quicker lately. Porsche quietly pushed out a pair of software updates which have…

You don’t get much more ’80s ostentatious than today’s Nice Price or No Dice 911. Let’s see if this Gemballa-bodied Targa comes with a price tag that might be considered contrastingly less outrageous. Read more...

Until relatively recently, turbochargers were a pretty niche technology. Automakers such as Audi, Porsche, Saab, Subaru and Volvo still used them in some of their vehicles, but they weren’t remotely as common as they are today. Take the Porsche 911, for…

Our old friend Doug DeMuro sure has come a long way since the days when he needed his parents to cosign a loan for the Ferrari that jumpstarted his YouTube career. After starting and then selling his ownership stake in Cars & Bids, he was able to buy a Porsche…

Between June 23 and September 5, Porsche built 53 Boxster and Cayman models for the U.S. market with a little snippet of code that makes them potentially totally illegal to drive. The German automaker says an employee was manually altering code in the rear…

Seven sedans and three sports cars make up this year’s Car and Driver 10 Best cars. The 10 best trucks and SUVs list features two EVs, six crossovers, and two trucks that could not be more different. It’s a really interesting collection of twenty vehicles…

No car has ever driven at higher altitude than this 992-generation Porsche 911 Carrera 4S with portal axles. On Saturday the Porsche crew, led by racing driver Romain Dumas, reached the highest peak of the west ridge of the Ojos del Salado volcano in Chile,…

Porsche unveiled the third-generation Panamera last week, and with it came the addition of the updated sport sedan to Porsche’s excellent configurator. While only the base Panamera and Panamera 4 are currently available to build – the Turbo E-Hybrid will…

Police identified the driver and passenger of the fiery crash at the Niagara Falls, New York border on November 22 as Kurt P. Villani and his passenger and wife Monica Villani. The couple were driving in a 2022 Bentley Flying Spur that exploded when it crashed…

I came across a bit of commentary on the website Slate.com that was mostly about last week’s Bentley crash at the Rainbow Bridge, and it contained the following: “Why would an automaker manufacture a car with so much engine power that it requires an…

Yet another car was spared from the clutches (see what I did there) of thieves after suspects assaulted a Bethesda, Maryland restaurant owner and attempted to steal his manual Porsche 718 Boxster before stalling it twice and ultimately giving up. Read more...

Tesla’s Cybertruck Delivery Event featured Elon Musk showcasing the capabilities of the electric automaker’s long-waiting pickup truck in recorded vignettes. The most dramatic segment saw the Cybertruck drag racing a Porsche 911 Carrera. As it became clear…

Depreciation is a fact of life when it comes to buying a new car, but it definitely hits some vehicles way harder than others. A few weeks ago, we took a look at cars hit hardest by deprecation over the past five years. Now, we’re looking at the flip side of…

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Porsche unveiled a brand new third-generation Panamera last week, and everything about it looks pretty great. There’s just one catch. The totally rad Panamera Sport Turismo wagon variant is dead, and there’s nothing we can do about it except put on a…

There are companies that make cool cars — Porsche comes to mind immediately. There are successful car companies, like Toyota and Mercedes-Benz. And there are car companies that, despite in many cases being horrifically mismanaged and going through long…

We’ve all raced a slot car, right? You pick out your car and carefully line it up with a thin groove running along the center of a track. With the remote in hand, you watch it zip around and around along a circuit you spent hours dreaming up and building.…

In just a few years Porsche will release a fully electric Panamera on its version of the Volkswagen Group’s upcoming SSP platform, part of its quest to go (nearly) fully electric by 2030. To tide us over until then, a new third generation of the gas-powered…

The hue of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cayman is often referred to as “Retail Red” or “Arrest Me Red.” The factory name for the color is Guards Red and has long been a popular choice among Porschephiles. Let’s see how popular this dealer-offered…