Please support our sponsors: How Does The 911R Compare to the 991 GT3 RS? Jack Olsen Drives Them Back to Back. Many readers of this site first "met" Jack Olsen after he, his Porsche and his garage were featured in a story on our site featuring an early Petrolicious video. And while Jack was
well known in the So Cal Porsche scene before that, he's gone on to become more of a "celebrity" lately thanks in part to the videos he continues to make and his recent participation in Porsche's "Driving Challenge" with the new 911R. While we've yet to meet Jack in person, we are "friends" on social media and he is a reader of FLATSIXES.com. With that in mind, we reached out last week to ask him about his experiences with Porsche and the 911R. As part of that conversation we
learned that Jack is one of the few people, outside of Porsche, who has driven both the GT3 RS and the new 911R back to back. You see, due to the process of filming the Driving Challenge videos Jack had quite a bit of "downtime". Porsche wanted to keep Jack entertained so they handed him the set of keys to a 991 GT3 RS and set him loose on their test track at Weissach. Who better than he to talk about how they compare. Here's what he had to say.
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Our Favorite Porsches on eBay: Volume
48 You spoke, we listened. Enough of you have said how much you like this section that instead of publishing our eBay picks every other week, we're going to try a weekly format with two of us making the
picks. This week, we've tracked down five more exciting Porsches for you nice people to purchase today, including a low mileage 944 coupe, an affordable summer toy, a product of depreciation, a 911 Safari donor candidate, and a 356 Speedster someone of "regular" means could afford. Some of these cars could be great collection investments, while others might prove to do more financial harm than good.
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"Phobos" For the space-uninitiated, Phobos is the name of the larger of Mars' two moon-like satellites. Phobos is relatively light as moons go, it orbits very close to Mars with a tighter turning radius, and it carries a
lot of speed through that turning circle, as it orbits Mars about once every 8-hours, deteriorating as it goes. So it would make sense that Carl Sagan would name his 914 after a natural satellite such as that, right? Much like Mars' Phobos, Sagan's 914 has deteriorated some after all these years of spinning around on the face of the earth. Regardless, it's for sale and can be yours if the price is right. Details in this post.
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sponsors: Porsche's Results and Pictures From Long Beach OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY A Brief History of Porsche's Transaxle Models: Type 924, 928, 944 and 968 It's been 40-years since Porsche first introduced their transaxle powertrain with the Type 924. Since then we've seen three other production transaxle models, the 944, 928 and 968.
Now, in 2016, Porsche is celebrating that history with a special exhibit featuring examples of all four model lines (more than half of the exhibit is being shown for the first time). In this
post, we take a brief look back at the history of the transaxle at Porsche, their achievements and how they contributed to the Porsche we know today. OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY
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If you enjoy these Porsche cartoons (or any of our other posts for that matter) we would love it if you would take a minute to share them with other like minded individuals. All you need to do is click here, or on the image above, and then share it by selecting any of the social network buttons you find on the side and bottom of the post. OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY The Last Turn - The Man and a Very Special Birthday Present Leonard Turner's "The Last Turn" has easily become my favorite column here on FLATSIXES.com. His archive covers decades of Porsche's incredible history and each images is accompanied by a wonderful short
yet descriptive story explaining what was taking place at the time he made the image. Take the photo above. That's Ferry Porsche, accompanied by his four sons, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. That strange looking 928 in the photo? Well, that's a one-off car given to him as part of the celebration that Leonard was there to document. Here's what he had to say. OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY
Please support our sponsors: Introducing the 2017 Porsche Cayenne Platinum Edition Porsche's "Platinum Edition" models traditionally offer value by way of including standard features, that are normally optional, at a reduced price. The 2017 Cayenne Platinum edition is now different. Check out this post for pricing, picture and specs.
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Please support our sponsors: The Opulent 2016 Monaco Auction Preview OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY Project Boxster Clubsport: Part 14 - Interior Door Handle Update Our original intent was to build an RS-style interior door handle for project Boxster Clubsport. Unfortunately, we failed miserably and damaged the existing mechanism in our attempt. We decided to take
advantage of our mistake and use this time to replace the damaged handles with something a bit more aesthetically pleasing if not weight saving. Here's what we did and how you can do
the same.
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Panamera Wagon Will Be Sold In The U.S. Has it really been four years? Almost! It was September of 2012 when Porsche first introduced us to the Panamera Sport Turismo concept. Since
then, we've heard rumors of a coming Panamera Wagon, even the possibility of a "Cayvan". Yesterday, we learned that Porsche will sell a wagon variant of their second generation Panamera here in the U.S. Here's what we know so far. OTHER POSTS YOU MAY
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The Design of the new 718 Cayman Please support our sponsors: Porsche Stories From Around The
Web Despite our best efforts, it's not always possible for us to cover everything that's happening in the world of Porsche at any given time. It's almost as if the items worthy of note increase at some exponential rate as compared to the number of new Porsche owners and fans. With that in mind, from time to time, we'll bring you a round-up of other Porsche related stories you might find of interest and link you to them. If you read a story somewhere, or
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