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Two LMP1 podiums for Porsche New 919 hybrids finish second and third in Silverstone WEC opener Porsche had to settle for second and third place in the opening round of the 2017 WEC after Toyota clawed their way to victory at Silverstone, UK. A Toyota one-two in qualifying relegated the no. 1 and no. 2 Porsches to third and fourth places on the starting grid. However, after six hours of intense racing, a solid second and third place was the reward for the two e-hybrid LMP1 cars: the no. 2 car of Earl Bamber, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley crossed the finish line just 6.173 seconds behind the winning Toyota, which had taken the lead in a dramatic finale with seven laps to go. The Porsche team decided to run…

ASpanish word, Carrera means, among other definitions, road, race or race track, and it entered the Porsche lexicon at a crucial time in the company’s early history. In 1954, Heinrich Nordhoff, boss of Volkswagen, tried once more to lure Ferry Porsche to Wolfsburg. On offer was the senior engineering position in Germany’s biggest and most successful car maker, and possibly Nordhoff’s own job in the longer term. But the sacrifice was too great: in exchange for a huge salary and absolute financial security, Ferry would have to give up his own car manufacturing and engineering consultancy. If in those early years Ferry had ever doubted that his bold sports car business was viable, the enthusiastic reception of Porsches by amateur racers and sports car fans in the US strengthened his…

Written by Neill Watson Photography by Chris Wallbank A crisp, Sunday springtime morning. Stepping outside, there’s a light frost on the car from the night that’s easily removed with a single flick of the wipers. The previous evening, I had reluctantly set my alarm for an ungodly hour with the thought that Sundays really shouldn’t start at that time. But this morning, the brightness of the blue sky and the low angle of the morning sun warming my face provides inspiration for the day we have ahead as we drive across the Yorkshire countryside to learn more about the dark art of Historic Road Rallying and how it is actually possible to enjoy a day’s motorsport without the need for helmets, Nomex fire suits and the risk of catastrophic damage…

Data file Full specs, ratings and market values of every 911 GT3 generation can be found beginning on page 90 Plus Showroom If you’re looking for a classic or modern supercar, the classifieds from our independent specialist partners is the first place to look Servicing & tuning Make sure you’re getting the very best from your Porsche 911 with the help of our selected performance and maintenance specialists Insurance & finance Get your Porsche covered with the best car insurance deals for the road and track to always ensure happy, safe motoring…

Make no mistake, the second generation 991 is a devastatingly capable sports car, but the switch to turbocharged engines hasn’t been met with universal approval. In fact, there are plenty of neunelfer enthusiasts that mourn the loss of normal aspiration, which begs a couple of questions. Will the lack of turbochargers benefit values of those first-gen models in the longer term, and what will happen in the meantime? Sales expert at Paragon Porsche, Jason Shepherd, is first to give his views by sounding a note of caution. “Obviously there’s a lot happening both politically and economically at the moment, so the first thing I’d say is that the UK market is increasingly hard to predict. But despite that, I think the outlook for the first generation 991 is reasonably clear…

When it comes to a route you must drive before you die, Scotland’s North Coast 500 is up there with the best of them. Styled on the United States’ Route 66, the North Highland Initiative has come up with the North Coast 500 – so named in homage to a 516-mile route traversing the most far-flung points of the Scottish Highlands. Its route gives you the best of what Scotland has to offer: vast, unspoiled scenery dominated by rugged mountains and sweeping lochs, punctuated by the occasional castle or beach, with beautifully winding roads through the middle of it all. In short, it’s motoring bliss on par with anything offered up by the busier mainland European routes. Beginning and ending at Inverness Castle, you can tackle the NC500 in either…

991 GT2 RS takes to the track Late prototype spotted on the Nürburgring; official unveiling of production car imminent Just weeks before it is due to be officially unveiled, Porsche’s 991 GT2 RS has been spotted attacking the Nürburgring Nordschleife motorsport complex in Germany, largely devoid of any significant effort to disguise it. Total 911’s spies have photographed the car, in full black racewear, on a hot lap of the ‘Ring ahead of its launch later this summer. The car is being piloted publicly for the first time by a crash helmet clad driver in a Cup car-spec bucket seat, hinting at a warm up to Porsche setting what will likely be a record lap time of the Nordschleife for any 911 model (the current record of seven minutes 18…

1969 Iconic Werk 2 Building opens As Porsche expanded, more manufacturing space was needed in Zuffenhausen. Opposite Werk 1 in Schwieberdinger Strasse was a stretch of greenery about 200 yards long. It was the obvious place to build and would have the advantage of hiding the drab old Reutter plant. Porsche was now a go-ahead concern with an international reputation: its factory architecture would henceforth reflect this. Designed by R Waldmann, a Swiss former native of Stuttgart, the new Werk 2 was a striking piece of 60s styling still impressive today. A long, four-storey construction, it provided an additional 160,000 sq ft and included an advanced new paint shop. The ground floor was used for goods-inwards and the upper two floors were taken up with assembly and trimming with marrying…

Wales. That was the original destination, but a call from Porsche would change that. Sure, we could still have a right-hand-drive 991.2 GT3 for the day in the UK, but then we could also do the formal international launch the following week. Two bites at Porsche’s newest, most anticipated 911? Well, we weren’t about to say no. It changed things: the trip to Wales was cancelled, the GT3 instead being brought to Porsche’s Experience Centre at Silverstone, usefully about 45 minutes from my place, and roads I know very well. The A422, specifically. I drive it pretty much every day, the stream of disguised cars from Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin highlighting its status as a favoured test road for those firms’ chassis engineers. Yes, it’s that good: the…

1972 Carrera RS 2.7 revealed at Paris show to rapturous reception. Zuffenhausen scrambles to manufacture 1,590 to fullfil orders. 1973 Carrera RSR wins Daytona 24 hours even before homologation papers are completed. 1974 Carrera RS 3.0: 109 built, almost all for competition, 55 transformed into the 300+ horsepower RSR. 1974 Revised impact bumper G series begins; 911 range with Bosch fuel injection comprises 911, 911S and Carrera. Carrera is a volume production model. 1976 The top-of-the-range Carrera receives a 200bhp three-litre engine. 1978 911 range reduced to SC and Turbo as Carrera name disappears. 1981 Peter Schutz arrives at Zuffenhausen and reinstates the 911, whose production his predecessor had planned to terminate. 1983 The 3.2 revives the Carrera name. Available as SSE. 1986 Carrera Clubsport recalls Carrera RS 2.7, but…

I will start by saying I absolutely adore cars and believe they are made to be driven. I’ve been lucky enough to drive and own sports cars from various prestigious manufacturers over the years but, it has to be said, time after time I come back to Porsche and its 911, as the car is just so superior to its rivals in terms of driving performance and build quality. As we know, the 991 R sits pretty close to the top of the 911 tree and, after missing out on a 997 GT3 RS 4.0 in 2010, I was delighted to find out that I’d be getting an R this time around. Before I was told this, though, I was asked by Porsche what I intended to do with the…

Car Limits is a business that should be on your radar, offering driver training for all skill sets in a bid to help you improve technique and subsequently get more performance and enjoyment from any vehicle, safely. Based at North Weald Airfield in Essex, it’s really easy to get to (being just off the bottom of the M11) and offers wide open tarmac and lots of run-offs to play with. It’s a good thing as you can be sure you won’t run into danger, even if you do run out of talent – which you will! The company was formed in 1998 by ex-Benetton F1 test driver, Formula Renault and Formula Ford Champion, Andrew Walsh. Andy realised there were a lot of people out there who had very fast cars…

911R VS 991 R  With 50 years of performance between them, how do Porsche’s original & latest R’s compare ? C4S TO SCOTLAND Touring the North Coast 500 in Porsche’s latest Carrera 4S THE ‘OTHER’ ANNIVERSARY 911 We know about the 30, 40 and 50- Jahre cars, but what of ‘Ferry’s 3.2’? THE GAME CHANGERS G-series, 964, 996 & 991: a historical look at the 911’s controversial models Contents may be subject to change…

Following the success of the inaugural ‘Neunelfer’ event last autumn, Sunday 4 April witnessed the return of the popular cars & coffee format exclusively for derivatives of the Porsche 911 sports car. One hundred 911s filled the luxurious premises of Porsche Centre Portsmouth for Neunelfer II, with all manner of flat six finery from G-series Targas to the 991 R basking in the south coast sunshine. Aside from chatting with like-minded owners and admiring the cars in attendance, there was much to do at Neunelfer II. Porsche Portsmouth’s technicians were on hand to offer complementary health checks for those interested in taking a closer inspection of their cars, and the Centre ensured its showroom provided further eye candy for flat six aficionados with an eclectic mix of Porsche for sale.…

Best of the 997 Turbo Dear Sir, I very pleased to have issue 152 land with me and discover your cover dedicated to the 997 Turbo. As per the editorial of said issue, the 997 has slipped under the Turbo radar of late as the media and forums heap praise on the 996 Turbo. However, missing from the glare of your spotlight was any real mention of the end-of-production 997 Turbo S. I must say now that although I don’t currently own the car, I used to have one in GT Silver and deeply regret the day I sold it. The Turbo S had everything that was good about the 997 Turbo, as highlighted in your excellent 997.2 buyer’s guide, with added extras including 30hp, a two-tone leather interior and…

With a day in the PDK GT3 behind us in the UK, today is about the manual. We’re in Granada, Spain, at the GT3 launch officially, and the Racing Yellow car is a manual. We were originally told we’d not get a go in the six-speed, three-pedal car until later in the year. Andreas Preuninger said over dinner last night that they had a few ready, so why not? Why not indeed, this perhaps the most eagerly anticipated car since the 911 R: a car that, somewhat unsurprisingly, it’s being compared with. You know the stats: it’s got a 500hp, 4.0-litre engine, the R’s diffuser underneath the back and a raised rear wing positioned a bit further back. For reference, that’s 997 GT3 RS levels of downforce, 155kg, or 20…

“All 912s featured a flat four based on the motor in the last of the Porsche 356s” The shape of early, pre-impact bumper Porsches appeals to most 911 fans. The design – devoid of skirts, extended sills, beefier wings, pronounced inlets or, for that matter, outlets – is eminently classy and elegant. Today you need relatively deep pockets to purchase such a car from the 911’s earliest conception, but there is another option if you seek an enjoyable driver’s car with the same silhouette. It comes in the shape of the 912 – though, until a few years ago, this was the ‘911’, so to speak, that nobody was particularly interested in. This specific car for our feature resides in South Africa’s Free State – the central province of the…

It is almost as if Porsche’s elaborate induction system endowed the final air-cooled 911 with some mystical quality, but despite its imposing architecture – all that magnesium pipework atop the engine, the reality behind Varioram is more prosaic: in a naturally aspirated engine, air is sucked into the combustion chamber where the petrol-air mixture is ignited. However, if the fuel injection mechanism meters the flow of fuel, other means are required to monitor air flow into the cylinders and the goal of engineers is always to obtain optimal cylinder filling. Vaporised fuel is squirted into the chamber in measured doses, but air is admitted through inlet valves and their continuous opening and closing fills the air with shockwaves. For this reason, modern engine designs feature plenum chambers which have the…

David Grover Harpenden, UK @propertypetrolheads Model 991 Carrera S Year 2014 AcquiredMarch 2016 Model 997 Cup Year 2014 AcquiredDecember 2016 With racing now imminent, we are heading back to Donnington for our second practice day, hoping for good weather and with more confidence in both the car and circuit from which to build smoother lines and more consistent lap times. There is no doubt it’s going to be a daunting yet exciting first weekend getting to grips with the car in competition, and with other cars so much faster than even a Cup car. Caution, focus on enjoyment and gaining seat time remain the primary objectives for the first weekend, as there are plenty more to follow. Meanwhile, we have been investigating the gear change point I mentioned last month…

911s in the data file are organised in rows according to release date, beginning with the very first model in 1964. Many models were available in Coupe, Targa and Cabriolet forms, with the option of automatic transmission. Here, data has been provided from the Coupe variants unless stated. All data here has been compiled, where possible, from Porsche’s own figures. General valuations  This reflects the general market trend for a model’s used value compared to the previous financial quarter . The review for Q3 will be July 2017. The review for 2017 Q1 was April. Ratings  Each model is rated out of five in our half-star system according to their performance , handling, appearance and desirability .…