It’s been 75 years since Porsche introduced its first sports car, the 356. And while the new Vision 357 concept car that debuted today is not a thinly veiled look at a 356 successor – we know, sad trombone – it’s a way for Porsche to celebrate this important anniversary by harking back to its past.
Join us Wednesday, February 1st at 8PM EST for another episode of Tech Tactics Live. We will have on special guest Nathan Merz, PCA’s Valuation Expert, who is returned from attending the 2023 collector car auctions in Scottsdale, AZ. He will update us on what the current market trends seem to be leaning towards in 2023. He will tell us what Porsches he saw and what the overall feeling is from fellow collectors about the upcoming year when it comes to the buying/selling of Porsches.
Though its stated focus is literature and toys, there is so much more on offer at the annual LA Lit & Toy Meet. Here's our video of last year's show, ahead of this year's event on February 25.
The racing season officially starts on Saturday, January 28 at 1:40 PM EST. This is when the green flag is scheduled to drop, signaling the beginning of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. More importantly, it also signals the return of Porsche to top tier racing in the reminted GTP class with its 963 LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid). If you’re not lucky enough to be attending the race in person (your author wishes he were there) then here’s a quick guide to both enjoying the race and understanding what’s going on for 24 hours.
Coyle Saunders is a 21-year-old student at Elon University, and he’s been PCA’s intern since the summer of 2022. While updating Rennbow with new user-submitted pictures, Coyle developed some strong (and sometimes surprising) opinions about the Porsche color palette. Here are some of his favorites.
The 1964 356 was near the end of the line for Porsche’s original rear-engined sports car, and the SC was the factory hot rod. By that we mean it has 95 horsepower instead of the regular 356 C’s 75 hp, which is more than enough to accelerate this lightweight convertible to highway speeds quickly. Four-wheel disc brakes stopped it even more quickly. This 356 SC 1600 Cabriolet received a high-quality bare-metal restoration several years ago — find out what it’s like to drive a mint example of one of the last 356s in this One-Mile Review.
The Porsche 911's rich rally history started in the mid-1960s, yet it wasn't until 1984 when the automaker achieved its first overall victory in the Paris-Dakar Rally. The Rothmans, ah, Roughroads 911 Dakar Rallye Package at the LA Auto Show pays tribute to that victory. If you'd like to honor an earlier Porsche rally entry, Porsche has you covered. Er, wrapped. The automaker is offering as an option three new decorative wraps that pay tribute to Porsche's near-victories at the grueling East African Safari Rally.
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Mart Fresh is a bi-weekly column in which we pick what we think are the "freshest" Porsches currently available, and then attempt to explain our reasoning. Up this week are a 2005 911 Carrera, 2006 Boxster S, 2008 Cayenne Turbo, and 2017 Macan GTS.
Tires are a key component to a car’s performance just as speakers are to an audiophile’s appreciation of sound quality. Having your Porsche handle and perform as the factory designed is helped by the usage of N spec tires.
Are you curious about the 2001-2005 Porsche 911 Turbo? Perhaps you're in the market? We have the video for you: an exhaustive model guide for the 996-generation twin-turbo 911 presented by Nathan Merz. This one is Nathan's longest, most in-depth model guide yet, clocking in at a little more than 1.5 hours.
Damon drives a 987.2 Boxster Spyder, a 2,800-pound roadster with 320 horsepower. If you were to believe road tests from 2010, you'd think the handling is even more impressive than the power-to-weight ratio. Is that actually true? Watch to find out.
A fact of life is that depreciation curves have been getting shallower recently, meaning prices of cars (particularly desirable ones) don’t fall as drastically and take a shorter amount of time to bottom out. The first-generation Panamera is now more than 10 years old, and while probably not at the bottom of its depreciation curve, it is at least starting to look very attractive from a price standpoint, and perhaps more attractive aesthetically with the passage of time.
We recently visited a place where the mission is to make our favorite water-cooled and air-cooled Porsches drive better and last longer: LN Engineering. Before we dive into a multi-part video series on the subject of bore scoring in the next couple months (plenty of editing left to do), we felt you'd like to see where and how LN Engineering makes parts for Porsches and VWs.
Porsche is celebrating 75 years as a company this year as well as hosting the seventh Rennsport Reunion at Weather Tech Laguna Seca Raceway at the end of September. We’re running a monthly series about the cars you will probably see at Rennsport as well as why they became an important part of Porsche’s racing history.
Vu Nguyen drives a 2021 Macan S, which slotted above the base model and below the Turbo and GTS with a 348-horsepower 3.0-liter turbocharged V6. This one was not optioned with air suspension. Is it still the choice sporty compact SUV?
