Manuel Carrillo III, Author at 6SpeedOnline - Page 19 of 33

What do you make of this ’65 Porsche 912 with a big ol’ V8 hanging out the back? Is this sacrilege, or righteous? What’s worse:  jettisoning the flat-six out of a 911 and dumping a V8 in its place, or scrapping the wimpy 912’s four-banger in favor of a 327-cubic-inch small block? Think that’s an easy […] More »

Why do we appreciate the Porsche 911’s evolution? When we see those ads and posters where every 911 generation is parked in succession, why do we gaze hypnotically? Is it because we love the progress the 911’s evolution represents? In 1998 when the 996 came out, the brochures read, “Everything we know … so far.” […] More »

This is a 1980 Porsche 930 Turbo owned by a chap named Krister “Sibbe” Svahn. We can say this Svahn guy knows how to put a car together.

It may not be the “Wonderbra“, but clear bra does wonders for paint protection. Do you save money when using urethane paint protection film? Not really. It cost about $1,500 to wrap the hood, bumper, headlights, mirrors and rocker panels of the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo in the DRIVE CLEAN video below. If you wanted to […] More »

The Porsche 918 is now the world’s fastest production car around the Nürburgring. Porsche test driver Mark Lieb yanked the Green Hell by the nostrils, achieving an elapsed Nordschleife lap time of 6:57 in the plug-in hybrid hypercar. It will be interesting to see how the competition responds … we feel World War III is looming, with Ferrari […] More »

The Porsche 911 Turbo S is like the Hometown Buffet of the 991 lineup. It offers a little bit of everything, mixing the comfort of a GT car with a racy disposition that, at moments, may give you the feeling you’re in a GT3, but because it’s not a GT3, it can afford to have […] More »

First it was ‘Vette versus Viper, then it was Corvette versus Nissan GT-R. This week, Edmunds has the C7 Corvette battling the Porsche 911 Carrera S. The as-tested price of the Corvette Stingray is $69,675. In the video, Mike Monticello says the as-tested price of the Porsche 911 Carrera S is around $140,000, so for […] More »