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VTOL no longer stands for vertical take-off and landing. Now that Porsche and Boeing have teamed up for a future flying car project it’s sure to be an electric powered model in which the T stands for Turbo. Voluminous Turbo Over land. Veritably Turbo Out…

Back in February, Porsche announced the next generation of the Porsche Macan crossover—its best-selling vehicle—would go full-electric, abandoning combustion engines completely. New details reveal that instead of a electric conversion hack job, the new…

A thirty-seven year-old respiratory therapist and Porsche fan Mike Savina didn’t know what to expect when he arrived at a fallen barn not far from his home in West Virginia. He’d been told that there was, somewhere under the rubble, a classic Porsche 911,…

While the term “Memorandum of Understanding” sounds like something you get after going through a six-week New Age anger management seminar, it’s actually more of a business love-pledge between two companies, in this case Boeing and Porsche. The two…

About a week ago, Porsche released a press release talking about all the new jobs that were being added to build the Taycan, and to make their point that the switch to EV does not necessarily mean loss of jobs. That’s great and all, but I was most struck by…

Demand for the recently revealed 2020 Porsche Taycan has been strong. Porsche hired 1,500 more workers earlier this year to prep for its first year of production. Now that the car has been revealed, Porsche has hired 500 more workers to keep up with demand.…

The Porsche 911 Speedster turns anywhere it stops into a postcard scene. Looking at it is fun; sitting inside is spectacular. Then you step on the gas, and die, drowned in a sense of pure heroism and hedonism. It is nothing short of glorious and you’ll never…

You deserve to look at something pretty. You deserve to look at something striking. You deserve to look at this Porsche 911SC. Read more...

It shouldn’t be too surprising to learn that Porsche is extremely detail oriented. But the company is so obsessive over everything, it even has an official policy on an appropriate way to align the company’s crest in the center caps of every wheel on every…

After more than seven years of production, the Tesla Model S finally has another high-performance electric sedan to compete against: the 2020 Porsche Taycan. In Turbo S form, it’s a 750-horsepower all-wheel drive EV that can rocket from zero to 60 mph in 2.6…

I just drove the Porsche Taycan, and though I can’t give you a full review until later, I can say what the Porsche Taycan’s P.R. Manager told me at dinner about Tesla’s Nürburgring record attempts and Elon Musk’s Porsche Taycan-related tweets. As he…

Once again, Tesla has defied expectations. After wrapping up its first-ever Nürburgring test this week and heading home to America, it’s pulled off an apparent hand-timed seven minute, 24 second lap in one of its Model S test cars, a mere second slower than…

The Nürburgring is host to a very exciting (if very unofficial) pissing contest between Tesla and Porsche over whose four-door electric car is the fastest around the track, and the results are impressive. After Porsche set a very quick 7:42 second lap time,…

Just because the US government is mandating that your electric vehicle has to have detectable engine noises doesn’t mean some automakers won’t be using engine noises to make a quick buck. Case in point: the new Porsche Taycan, which offers a legitimate mp3…

The race for the fastest electric sedan around the Nürburgring maybe just got a hell of a lot more interesting. In August, Porsche’s first foray into EVs, the Taycan Turbo S, nailed a 7:42 lap time, winning the crown for quickest four-door electric around…

If you read my technical deep-dive, then you may know more than you’ve ever wanted to about the 800-volt, all-electric 2020 Porsche Taycan—arguably the first true Tesla Model S competitor. But I couldn’t cover everything in that explainer, since I…

Let me start off by saying I like Tesla. I really do. I was seriously impressed when I first drove a Tesla Roadster over a decade ago. That impression stayed with me all the way through to when I took the first ever lap of a Tesla at the Nürburgring. Tesla…

Porsche’s first fully electric car is here, and depending on who you ask, it could be the most serious competition the Tesla Model S has faced yet. It’s called the Porsche Taycan, and it is an all-electric sport sedan promising up to 750 horsepower,…

For the past few weeks, I’ve been referring to the upcoming Porsche Taycan as possibly the first true Tesla Model S competitor. But then I saw the Taycan’s $150,000+ price tag. While I still think it’ll draw in some Tesla buyers, I have to back off on my…

Shortly after the 2020 Porsche Taycan dropped, with 750 horsepower and a $185,000 price tag for certain versions, the configurator went up, too. Are you bored at work and need to kill some time? Let’s do this thing together! Read more...