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Sometimes car companies will produce wild camouflage wraps and liveries for test vehicles or record-setting cars to get the maximum amount of attention, but it’s rare for them to actually be offered by the factory. Porsche has gotten more extravagant in…

Mark Donohue once famously said “If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.” He was talking about the all-conquering turbocharged Porsche 917s that he raced in the Can Am…

We’ve known that Porsche was working on a high-performance Taycan for a while now — I mean, it already set a Nürburging record for electric sedans. Now the covers have been taken off the 2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT, and it’s even more of a track…

For a long time licensing issues held Porsche back from being available in most video games, with the German brand being mostly relegated to the Need For Speed series. Thankfully in recent years Porsche has returned to games like Forza Motorsport and Gran…

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, March 5, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more...

“I’m not terrified of it,” says John Ficarra of his newest ridiculous acquisition, Rocky Aoki’s Porsche 959 limo built for the Car and Driver One Lap of America. Most people would be terrified, I would venture to guess. The car has been for sale in…

The only thing holding back the classic Plymouth Prowler from being the perfect long-distance touring car is its decided lack of storage space. That’s something today’s Nice Price or No Dice ’99 addresses with the addition of a trailer. Let’s see if…

American car enthusiasts (myself included) spend a lot of time bemoaning the demise of the station wagon in the U.S., but perhaps even more annoying to wagon die-hards is the proliferation of wagons that are fitted with a lift kit and body cladding to make…

Thanks to the phenomenal depreciation that’s hitting almost every EV on the market, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Taycan asks almost half what a new model would cost. Let’s see if that makes it worth plugging in. Read more...

Consumer Reports isn’t necessarily known for testing and reviewing performance cars. Instead, it tends to get more attention for things like its list of the most and least reliable cars, as well as its ownership satisfaction survey. In between reviewing a…

Overall, the U.S. auto industry has largely recovered from the supply chain issues that drove the cost of new cars through the roof and brought the price of used cars up along with it. Not all new cars are selling below MSRP now, but enough are that you can…

Depreciation is hitting EVs harder than most other vehicles. A combination of technology upgrades, price fluctuations on new cars, and lack of demand has meant a rapid drop in value for many electric models. This phenomenon is especially dramatic for…

Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 22, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more...

The Volkswagen Scirocco and Corrado are easily the best cars that VW ever designed. Sports coupes are now less popular among the public than they’ve been in the past, making a revival of either VW coupe unlikely, but the Scirocco is rumored to be returning…

Few things in travel are worse than a tight airport connection. You’re either sprinting through ATL, fast enough to lose your neck pillow off your bag in the fray, or sleeping in the airport after watching the last plane to America take off without you.…

Porsche announced Tuesdaythat its executive sedan is gaining two new hybrid powertrains to appease the hybrid-hungry car buying public. The Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid and Panamera 4S E-Hybrid join the lineup under the all-out performance monster, the Panamera…

If you’re cold, they’re cold—bring them inside. If you live in the frigid north where snow accumulates in drifts and you are forced to park your car outside, Nio’s new SkyRide active suspension might be just the thing you need. As shown here on the new…

When Porsche introduced the 964-generation 911 in 1989, it was met with great fanfare. MotorWeek’s John Davis called the car “an instrument of sensuous pleasure, if there ever was one.” The design was an iterative and evolutionary change to the vaunted…

The now-iconic Porsche crest was originally developed for the brand in the mid-1950s. The Stuttgart city crest is flanked by the stylized antlers and colors of the Württemberg-Hohenzollern region coat of arms. The logo of perhaps the most well-known sports…

This 1990 Porsche 964 911 Targa in Resistance Blue painted carbon fiber bodywork and a custom Orange interior is Singer’s 300th car. The beauty of Singer’s 300th Porsche 911 is undeniable, but most notably it’s no fluke; Singer has been producing…