May 21, 2012

Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Coming To US Soil

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Saw this on the Porsche Press site this morning.  Looks like Porsche is going to race the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid in the 1,000 mile/10 hour American Le Mans Series Finale Petit Le Mans. A showing on American soil! That’ll be cool. If anyone has access to this race, you really need to send [...]

Three…ummm…interesting Porsches

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World’s Worst Cayenne The first is a bastardized Porsche Cayenne. A reader on Jalopnik.com came across an older Asian man that was literally supergluing fake rhinestones onto his Porsche Cayenne in the parking lot of a store. He had already added reflective tape, thermometers, compasses, pins, badges and lights as part of his customization treatment. [...]

Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Racing Wheel Review

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For as long as I’ve been playing video games (admittedly a long time), I’ve loved playing racing games. They’ve always been my favorite. Pole Position was probably the first “real” racing game I got addicted to. I played it until I could finish it consistently every time on a single quarter. From that point on, [...]

Stock Porsche 911 GT3 RS Competes At Nurburgring

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Lyndon, one of our PorschePerfect.com readers, sent me a link to a post that I found particularly cool. Among all of the crazy expensive race rides competing at big races like the Nürburgring, one Porsche team took a different approach. Most of the cars are trailered to events, extensively pampered before and after races, and [...]

Porsche Racing News

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Porsche Racing News…News to me at least. Here are some things I came across over the past week. Porsche headed to Formula 1 – Lyndon, one of our PorschePerfect.com readers, sent me a link to this one. It seems Volkswagen is considering entering Formula 1 with Porsche being one of the brand candidates. Audi and [...]