Jalopnik writer Doug DeMuro has a Ferrari 360 Modena, a curvaceous, V8-powered number with an F1-style transmission and 400 horsepower.  As racy as it is, it’s not fast enough to allow him to outrun people constantly telling him what other car he could have bought.  (Perhaps a whiff of the 360’s creamy leather interior makes […] More »

Luxury car companies like Porsche get a bad rap.  The traditional logic holds that the more exotic a car is, the more problematic it will be (and Porsches are definitely not on every block).  In 1973, addressing concerns that raw materials for automobiles would run out in the future, the Teutonic firm built the FLA […] More »

I’m sure Porsche designed its 2014 911 GT3 to be a hot performer.  Probably not as hot a performer as it has been lately. Faulty connecting rod fasteners in the car’s 475-horsepower 3.8-liter flat-6 are being blamed for engine fires that motivated Porsche to issue a stop-sale order to its dealership network in February. In […] More »

There was a time—many moons ago—when a four-door Porsche just didn’t exist.  The face-flatteningly fast Panamera certainly changed that.  (Ahem… So did the once-blasphemous Cayenne SUV.)  Long before that car, the 928 was a completely foreign concept to the Teutonic firm.  Its front-mounted eight-cylinder power plant was a radical departure from the rear-engined 911’s flat-six. […] More »

This is some very un-Porsche-like news. Owners of the latest generation of GT3 (you know, the one with the 9000 rpm redline), might have reason to worry that their cars have a proclivity for pyrotechnics. Five different cars across Europe have been reported in Europe according to Motor Authority. Porsche product communications manager, Nick Twork, […] More »

Say you’re Coca-Cola a few decades ago. You only sell one product: regular Coke. Sales are great, you got the taste just right, life is good. Then along came Diet Coke. Zero calories, yes, but the flavor trailed behind the original by a wide margin so there’s no concern that Diet Coke will become the […] More »

The refinement and perfection of propulsion, in the name of fuel economy, is at a fever pitch. The benefit for you and I has been the increase in both horsepower and efficiency in any engine available. But the most perfect engine in the world is nothing if it reaches the ground through a two-speed box […] More »