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Published: Sun, 12/12/21

THIS PORSCHE 944 IS AN EXCELLENT RETRO HOMAGE TO APPLE COMPUTER’S RACING DAYS

There exists an enigmatic artist in the American Northeast with an obsession for creating meticulously crafted images of cars and her terrible Porsche in perhaps equal measure. Syd is among the most creative photographers in the automotive world right now, and her most recent “Apple Car” shoot is all the proof you need to see why. “That car …

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PORSCHE LEAVES FORMULA E PRE-SEASON TEST BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER

After an extremely hard-fought five-session pre-season test session last week in Valencia, Spain, the Porsche Formula E team feels it is prepared for Season 8 of the championship. That's good, because season 8 begins in just a month and a half with a double-header in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Over the course of the test, Porsche drivers Andre Lotterer …

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REPORT: VOLKSWAGEN’S PORSCHE IPO IS BACK ON

Just over a month ago Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Deiss assured everyone on the third quarter earnings call that the company would not be selling off assets. This came in the face of growing concerns that the company was looking to offload Lamborghini and Ducati, and that Porsche might be spun off with its own initial public offering. Porsche, in …

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PORSCHE DESIGNED AN ELECTRIC HYPERCAR FOR A VIDEO GAME

Porsche Electric Hypercar for Video Game

Porsche is the latest in a long line of companies to build super fast concept cars explicitly for Polyphony's Gran Turismo series of racing video games. Always dubbed Vision Gran Turismo, these cars allow major manufacturers and their designers the opportunity to go flat out without regard for anything that would actually ever be available for …

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PORSCHE NEARLY BUILT A 959 REPLACEMENT WITH A WATERCOOLED V8

There are always points in history where if things had happened slightly differently, the future might have turned out seriously differently. These are the moments where the multiverse splits and there is another theoretical existence where modern 911s could be powered by dual overhead cam watercooled V8 engines. There was a point in the 1980s …

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THIS WEEK’S PORSCHE CARTOON: MINIVANS ARE COOL, RIGHT? RIGHT?!

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Motor Trend. Car and Driver. Road and Track. They all loved the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 when it was introduced back in 2016. Now they love it even more. Why? This year, Porsche offers the 718 Cayman GT4 with an amazing seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.

The 718 Cayman GT4 is the spiritual successor to the Porsche 911. Like the famous Porsche 911 (even the first ones way back in 1963), the 718 Cayman GT4 features Porsche’s legendary Boxer 6 engine. This water-cooled, naturally aspirated 4.0-litre engine delivers 414 horsepower and 317 lb-ft of torque.

How does that translate to real-world numbers? The 3,247-lb 718 Cayman GT4 zips from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds and zooms through the quarter mile in 11.8 seconds at 117 mph. Top speed is 188 mph.

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RUF DOESN’T BUILD PORSCHES

Founded way back in 1939, and rising to fame in the 1980s with its high-performance Porsche-based CTR "Yellowbird" Ruf has been building gorgeous and fast machines for decades. While much of what the company has built is based on Porsche chassis, for decades it stripped everything down to its component parts and engineered every single piece to …

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Every week, we here at FlatSixes send out a curated list of all of the week's posts and top stories. This newsletter is quite popular amongst our faithful and we enjoy putting it together each week. In fact, expect some fun additions to the newsletter as time progresses. But sometimes there is some breaking news that we think you might be …

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