Just when you thought there was already a Porsche 911 for every occasion, the fine folks from Stuttgart drop a 4.0-liter, dry-sump, 500-horsepower monster into the shapely rear-end of the already awesome GT3 RS, creating the 911 GT3 RS 4.0. Thanks to the race-derived flat-six, the 4.0 can scoot to 60 in 3.8 seconds, and will hit 124 miles per hour in under 12 seconds. As God intended, this 911 is only available with a six-speed manual.
Here’s a party game to try out with all of your car-loving friends and family members over the upcoming holiday season. The scenario is this: someone hands you $100,000 in a suitcase and tells you to buy a car. You can only buy one vehicle with the money, and you don’t get to keep the change when you’re done.
Between the civilian $90,500/$101,500, 380-horsepower Porsche 911 Carrera 2S coupe/cabriolet, and the $131,400, less-civil, 435-horsepower, track-oriented 911 GT3 there is apparently a chasm, nay, a lacuna in the so far 19-model 997 911 range that needed filling desperately by another 911 offering.
Today, we got new spy shots of the Porsche 911 wearing very little to disguise its features.
In this issue of Winding Road, we go supercar crazy when we get behind the wheel of the stunning Ferrari 458 Italia.
The Mercedes-Benz Vision CLS show car back in 2003 at the Frankfurt auto show absolutely stole the three-day press event. Rarely is there such a universally big positive reaction to anyone’s “vision,” especially when we’re talking about skeptical journalists. Even we loved it shamelessly.
Porsche has just announced that there will be a production version of the 918 Spyder Concept Car. The plug-in hybrid debuted at last years Geneva Auto Show and was arguably one of the most popular cars on the stand.
Porsche has given up the details on its most powerful street-legal car ever, the 2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS. Based on the already potent 911 GT2, its biturbo, 3.6-liter flat-six produces a stomach-turning 620 horsepower in a car that only weighs 3020 pounds.
On the heels of recent spy photos of the upcoming Porsche 911, we now have these images of the 911 Convertible in cold-weather testing.
We just got our hands on the most recent spy photos of the new Porsche 911, this time giving us a good look at the true front end of the car.
When we first saw the last-gen Porsche 911 GT3 RS, it was bright green. And when we saw it the second time, it was bright orange. As you can see from the above photos, some things never change.