The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance is just about upon us. In fact, here on the island, the transports and cars are already arriving at the same time as the auction tents are going up. Things are taking shape and the excitement is building. One of the new events this year is the Porsche Club of America's "Werks Reunion". Since 2014 the event was held on the west coast as part of the annual Car Week on California’s Monterey Peninsula in August. Having lost their regular west coast venue, the PCA added an east coast version at the Omni Amelia Island Resort for 2017. 

Porsche just released their February sales figures in the U.S. What models led the charge? How did the sports car line-up do? 

Every Porsche has a strong connection to the brand's motorsports history, even if not all have been used in competition. The advances Porsche makes in motorsports frequently make their way to the brand's road cars, and often quickly. The racing variant of the 356 introduced a fully synchronized gearbox in 1951, and the technology appeared in the road car within a year. Intercooling came to road cars thanks to the 917 Can-Am car. We've discussed the technological connection between Porsche road and racing cars before. In Porsche's latest Top 5 video Walter Röhrl breaks down the connection between the street and the racetrack. 

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Porsche Cars Canada has been on a tear for years now. Last month's sales were a record and February is no different. 

It's striking how quiet the Porsche factory is. During engine assembly the loudest sound seems to be the gentle clatter of the machine which sets the pistons into the ring compressor. Even the chain hoists operate with a near silent "tick-tick-tick" as the chains move over the rollers. Six decades ago, when the 356 was in production, the Porsche factory was a noisy place. Bodies were hammered out within view of engine assembly. The ceilings were low, and the brick buildings were natural echo chambers. For decades Porsche manufacturing didn't stray far from this model.

It's hard to believe it's been nearly 5-years since Porsche first blew our minds with the introduction of the Panamera Sport Turismo Concept. Then, just last May, we learned the concept had been given the "green light" and would find its way to the US. Well, the Panamera Sport Turismo is finally here and we saw it debut at the Geneva International Auto Show just a few hours ago. 

It seems like only yesterday that the dynamic duo of Patrick Long and Jörg Bergmeister were taking one checkered flag after another as pilots for Flying Lizard Motorsports. When, in fact, the two haven't raced a full-season together since 2012. Today, however, Wright Motorsport confirmed they are bringing the two back together again in a Porsche 911 GT3 R to contest the five-round Pirelli World Challenge SprintX championship.

 

For all intents and purposes, and despite Porsche's best efforts, the details of the new 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 were leaked ahead of the press conference scheduled in Geneva. Yes, the new 991.2 GT3 was the third model we were waiting to hear about and the details show that it is everything we asked for after the last GT3 was released with PDK only.