Porsche has announced its 3.8-liter 911 Carrera S engine has won the 2009 “Best New Engine of the Year” award in the International Engine of the Year Awards.
The power combined with the efficiency and drivability of the direct fuel injected engine helped earn the award. The current engine, combined with the PDK transmission, produces 385 [...]

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Car and Driver recently drove the Panamera S and Panamera Turbo and came away impressed.
First, they say the styling looks much better in person. Next, the cars are insanely quick. The Panamera S sprints from 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds, 0 to 100 in 11.5 seconds, and hits a top speed of 175 mpg. [...]

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Bloomberg is reporting that Qatar’s investment deal with Porsche could be done by the end of June. As we reported earlier, Porsche is seeking up to $3.45 billion in investment from Qatar.
According to the article, Qatar wants at least a 25% stake in Porsche.
Porsche has already gotten a $978 million loan from VW, and [...]

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Those earlier rumors about the Boxster getting a 4-cylinder engine are heating up. Auto Motor & Sport is reporting that Porsche is looking at shoving the Audi TTS engine into a cheaper Boxster.
The engine is a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder that makes 272 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. That’s actually 17 hp and 45 lb-ft [...]

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Motor Authority has a whole heap of spy photos of the next generation Cayman being tested, sporting a 987 body stretched over the next generation platform.
The pictures clearly show the next generation Cayman will have a wider track as evidenced by the wheel arch add-ons. But not much else can be gathered from the shots, [...]

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Porsche has released a 2 1/2 hour DVD showing the complete company history from the beginning up to today.
Called “The Porsche Way,” the film is based on the Archives Collection which houses over 5,000 hours of footage. Much of the footage on the DVD has never been seen before, and several racing drivers and [...]

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Back in September we reported that Porsche and VW were thinking about teaming up again to work on an entry-level roadster in the spirit of the 914. The talk was that it would be built on the (then yet-to-be-revealed) VW Bluesport roadster platform. Eventually, those rumors were put to rest, and Porsche said they were [...]

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While I don’t mind the looks of the Cayenne, it has certainly been called “ugly” by more than a few. But a Russian tuner has managed to make even the most jaded Cayenne think the stock Cayenne is a work of art next to this thing.
Status Design has taken a Cayenne and somehow grafted on [...]

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The RS Spyder fielded by the Essex team from Denmark won the LMP2 class at the Le Mans 24 Hour race. The RS Spyder won by 15 laps, and also won the “Michelin Green X Challenge” as the car with the best overall efficiency.
It was almost a 1-2 sweep for Porsche but the NAVI Team [...]

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9ff has announced a new tuning kit for the 911 GT2 called the 9ff BT-2. And I have to say, at least in the Gulf livery shown in the pics, this is my favorite 911 tuner package yet.
Pumping out an amazing 850 hp, the 9ff BT-2 can get from 0 to 62 in 3 [...]

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