February 5, 2012

Uwe Gemballa Reportedly Found Dead

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It’s a sad sad day for Gemballa fans. I personally, as strange as it may sound, was hoping Uwe Gemballa had staged his own disappearance to avoid facing something in his life. Unfortunately that doesn’t appear to be the case. 9 Magazine was the first place I saw the news, then in an Autoblog.com post. [...]

Route 30 Classics: A Slice Of Porsche Heaven On Earth

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My wife first stumbled across Route 30 Classics a few years ago while on a bike ride in the area with some friends. As soon as she told me about it, I was ready to roll that day, but it took another year to actually get back there. Unfortunately it ended in a failed attempt [...]

Porsche 911 Carrera GTS

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I’m sure most of you have seen info and pictures on this car over the last week. This is too great of a car not to post up though, if for no other reason than the pics! Last week, on Wednesday, Porsche announced the 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS model. Available as both a coupe [...]

Brand New Porsche Speedster!

2011 Porsche 911 Speedster

Today is a beautiful day in Porsche-land. Porsche officially announced a brand new Speedster to the lineup for 2011. Only the fourth car to bear the Speedster name, the 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera Speedster will make its debut at the Paris Motor Show next month. And I can’t WAIT! I’ve long loved the Speedster designated [...]

Weekly Porsche Wrap

Jim Giese Porsche Speedster

Late again, but some cool stories and sites from last week. 50 years of Porsche Speedster ownership – This was a cool little story about Jim Giese who has owned his 1958 Speedster for nearly 50 years. He bought the car in October of 1960. He’s driven and enjoyed the car, including a fair amount [...]

GEMBALLA Brand Coming Back To Life

An interesting press release landed in my box this morning. It was titled “A Fresh Start for the GEMBALLA Brand” and was from a PR firm in Germany. They got me there and I read the entire thing. It seems someone has snatched up the GEMBALLA name and some of the assets and hopes to [...]

Weekly Porsche Wrap

Porsche searches for oldest Porsche in the U.S. – Brad, a long time PorschePerfect.com reader, sent me a link to this last week (thanks Brad!). I’d just read the same thing myself. This is a great little celebration Porsche is doing in honor of their 60 year anniversary of their cars being in America. They’re [...]

Fanatec Does The Racing Wheel ONE BETTER!!!

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You may recall my review about a month and a half ago of the Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Racing Wheel. If you didn’t catch the drift of my review, I absolutely LOVED the wheel setup and felt it was the best I’d ever tried. As crazy as this may sound, Fanatec has outdone themselves [...]

Porsche Weekly Wrap

N. Technology Porsche Panamera scores a debut win in the series round – I’ll admit, when I first mentioned this car a couple of weeks ago, I was a naysayer (Three…ummm…interesting Porsches). It seems the people over at N. Technology knew what they were doing turning their Porsche Panamera S into a race ready machine. [...]

First Ever Porsche 911 Turbo

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This is an amazing find by a guy named Alex Nunez. He happened on what appears to be the first ever Porsche 911 Turbo at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance earlier last month. He said it was a little tucked out of the way and unless you read the placard in front of the car, you’d [...]