Porsche and its parent company Volkswagen had a great 2013.  Picture it this way: Every time someone drove a P-car out of a dealer’s lot, they left behind a bag with $23,000 in it.  The Stuttgart company then booked that as pure operating profit. While Porsches are relatively low-production cars, at 18 percent, they’re high-margin. […] More »

Cars are like songs.  Like music, they make terrific, pleasing melodies.  Occasionally, they can seem ground-breaking and fresh when, in reality, they sample or draw inspiration from something that was truly original decades ago. As revolutionary as Porsche’s Panamera sedan was for the sports car brand back in the 2010 model year, it wasn’t the […] More »

Just as Matt Farah did recently, /DRIVE’s Mike Musto got behind the wheel of an (until a few years ago) unusual Porsche – the four-door Panamera GTS.  Whereas Farah knocked the Cayenne Diesel for its poor value and preferred two of its competitors, Musto was perfectly content with the Stuttgart company’s humpback human hauler.  As […] More »

It’s safe to say that pretty much every person that goes into automotive journalism does so because they want to drive exotic cars such as Lamborghinis and Koenigseggs.  Matt Farah recently got the chance to do just that with… …the Porsche Cayenne Diesel. Think of the vehicle this way: It’s a diesel SUV sold in […] More »

This is the kind of thing gearheads love to see. Porsche Classic is a division of the company dedicated to repairing and restoring Stuttgart’s vintage iron, and for fan it’s a visual candy store. Three of the employees in the shop have over 40 years of experience with the company, and two of them worked […] More »