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 »

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 »

If the 1,200 brake horsepower from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is not enough for you, then I’ve got bad news for you. Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, president of the hypercar company, told Top Gear, “We will not produce a ‘SuperVeyron’ or Veyron Plus, definitely.  There will be no more power. 1200PS is enough for the […] 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 »

Those of us being made to wait around for the 2015 GTI now have even more to drool over with this wild concept, unveiled this week at VW’s Wörthersee Festival in Reifnitz, Austria. The AWD super rabbit is powered by a twin-turbo V6 good for 503 hp and 413 lb-ft of torque. VW claims a […] More »