First Look: 2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder

With its new Boxster Spyder, Porsche aims to take the racing significance of the Spyder body style to the road and create the purists' Boxster.Porsche is known for producing sublime road cars, many of which have a racing heritage. Porsche's latest model, the 2011 Boxster Spyder, is no exce...

First Drive: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo

Auto Union's Technical Strides

Auto Union's racing program made huge technical strides during the Age of Titans.Though they were highly successful during the Age of Titans (1934-39) era with 24 Grand Prix victories to their credit, the Auto Union racers designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche were not the first to use a mid-e...

Porsche and VW: What the Hell Happened?

How Porsche's crown prince almost captured the Volkswagen empire, and how his failure will affect future Porsches.Wendelin Would-be King Photo Gallery: Porsche and VW: What the Hell Happened? - Timeline of Events - Automobile Magazine Read More | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us

Street Racers' Reunion - Milan Dragway

Detroit's Big Three rise again to burn rubber at Milan Dragway.Return with us to those blissful days when Detroit's rule of the automotive roost was unchallenged by foes from east or west. In 1964 - the year suburban Detroit's Woodward Avenue became the country's favorite unofficial drag...

New Cars for 2010: Europe

Judging by the new-model intros from European carmakers, you'd think the bubble economy was still going strong.Judging by the new-model intros from European carmakers, you'd think the bubble economy was still going strong. At Mercedes-Benz, AMG has been developing a new supercar and a...

BMW Z10 - Supercar Survivor

BMW's Z10 escapes the ax but changes with the times.These are dire days for high-end, high-performance automobiles, so dire that BMW has red-flagged the M1 Homage (which wowed the crowd at Villa d'Este in 2008) and the Z9 two-seater (which was to be derived from the four-door CS show car fr...

First Look: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo

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Opinion: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera S

It is a delight to get behind the wheel of a car that performs so well and has such a rich personality.Well, this is about as good as it gets. I recently wrote quite a bit about the time I spent in a Porsche 911 C4S, and I'm tempted to repeat it all here. The biggest difference between this Carrera S an...

Great Rivalries: Automatic vs Manual

It used to be so easy: Manuals were for real drivers, automatics were for lame-os.It used to be so easy: Manuals were for real drivers, automatics were for lame-os. Now we've got dual-clutch gearboxes that drive like automatics (scads), wet-clutch automatics that can tach up from a standi...

Great Rivalries: Auto Union vs Mercedes Benz

The heroic Germans fought equally hard in mountain-climb and speed-record venues.In 1933, German chancellor Adolf Hitler promised Mercedes-Benz the 500,000-reichsmark (approximately $3 million today) incentive offered to any German racing team willing to campaign a car in the ne...

2009 Porsche Boxster S

The Boxster's sterling reputation for balance, capability, and forgivingness is well earned.It's tough to think of a better way to celebrate 80-degree July weather than with one of Zuffenhausen's finest roadsters. The Porsche Boxster S is simply one of the most enjoyable ways to travel...

Great Rivalries: Chevrolet Corvette vs. Porsche 911

The American Icon vs The World's Most Famous Sports Car.They are the yin and yang of sports cars, with a full century of heritage between them. Chevy's Corvette and Porsche's 911 are the patron saints of the go-fast faith, yet they are so diametrically opposed that their respective followe...

2009 Porsche Cayman S

It's really hard to describe the Cayman without overusing the word perfect.No, I didn't abandon my family to be with the Porsche Cayman S, but I was extremely tempted, taking several detours on the trip home to my tiny baby and my understanding wife. Nothing demands a joy ride like a Porsche. I...

2009 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S

Well, if this isn't a refugee from the "What-me-worry?" days of the bubble economy, we don't know what is.2009 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Sinline_mediumwraptextright2009 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S28329234/reviews/editors_notebook/0907_2009_porsche_cayenne_turbo_s0907_09_z+20...

Opinion: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S

We celebrate the experience of driving, and driving a 911 is all about the experience.I know this isn't the first thing I should be commenting on after my first-ever drive in a Porsche 911, but, wow, what a gorgeous interior. The no-nonsense, leather-swathed cabin says "expensive and fast...

AMG Driving Academy: The Nurburgring

We came to conquer the Green Hell - a racetrack so dangerous, only precious few races are run there.The AMG Driving Academy at the Nürburgring is a trifecta of automotive scholarly brilliance: there are cars and then there are AMGs; there are tracks and then there's the Nürburgring, and th...

Review: 2010 Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid

Being late is no problem when you're this good.Here are four sneak peeks in one: the Volkswagen Touareg in these pictures hides a new hybrid system that will be offered not only in a brand-new Touareg to be launched at the Frankfurt auto show in September, but also in the new Porsche Panamera...

Opinion: First Drive: 2010 Lotus Evora

The Evora may be larger and heavier than the Elise, but results are brilliant and may just steal some Porsche customers.Company founder Colin Chapman's apocryphal credo - "simplicate and add lightness" - may have to be amended in honor of Lotus' new 2+2, the Evora. Of course, "complicate a...

Opinion: First Drive: 2010 Porsche 911 GT3

By Jason Cammisa Halfway around the world, crowds gather at the Shanghai auto show to examine the curiously shaped Porsche Panamera. The first sedan in Porsche's sixty-one-year history looks like a big, stretched, hand-blown 911 - and decidedly unlike ...

Opinion: First Drive: 2010 Porsche 911 GT3

Ignore all of the angst over the Panamera. Porsche hasn't sold out. It couldn't have; not when it produced a car like the 2010 911 GT3.Halfway around the world, crowds gather at the Shanghai auto show to examine the curiously shaped Porsche Panamera. The first sedan in Porsche's sixty-one-ye...

Another German Car Museum!

The announcement that Porsche is about to open a new museum is hardly surprising news, but it does complete the roster of German auto musuems. VW has one in Wolfsburg, BMW has one in Munich, Mercedes-Benz has one in Stuttgart, Audi has its Forum in Ingolstadt, and now Porsche has one in Zuffe...

Opinion: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S

Driving one is not an experience, it's an occasion. 911s are that special.Climbing into a Porsche 911 is always good for one's spirits. The story with this car is the PDK (Porsche's dual-clutch automatic) transmission, and I have a few thoughts on that: First, Porsche got the hardest part ri...

2009 Mercedes-Benz SLK350

To me, the SLK's recent revisions have helped it become less of a "hairdresser's car," as it's sometimes derogatively called in the UK. Sure, the subtle tweaks to the interior and exterior styling play a part in this, but a bigger improvement lies in Mercedes-Benz's new "direct-steer" ra...

1986-1989 Porsche 959

Compared with heavy hitters like the Bugatti Veyron and the Ferrari F40, the understated Porsche 959 is easily overlooked. You might not have even heard of it, but it completely rocked the supercar world when it debuted at the Frankfurt show in 1985.

Opinion: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S

The Porsche 911 is a lot like a Coke bottle. (Follow me on this one, please.) Think about it: Both have shapely, wider-at-the-hips figures. Both have evolved over the years for purposes of weight savings and to stay fresh. And, when opened up, both provide a distinctive sensory experience.

Lean Mean Machine - 2008 Porsche 911 GT2

In the case of the latest Porsche 911, the GT suffix stands for anything but Gran Turismo. Guaranteed Trauma is more like it, at least when the beast is not treated with due competence and caution. The new 911 GT2 combines elements of the GT3 (lightweight components, rear-wheel drive) and th...

2007 Ruf RK Coupe

Alois Ruf is the warrior monk of the Porsche business, religiously dedicated to high performance. His shop in the tiny village of Pfaffenhausen to the west of Munich is a place where people from all over the world come to get in touch with the true spirit of Porsche. In a Ruf Porsche, they disco...

All-Star: 2007 Porsche Cayman

It is, for all intents and purposes, a Boxster with a roof welded on it--albeit a Boxster claimed to be twice as torsionally stiff as before and whose engine resides behind an interior bulkhead, making it seem even closer to the driver. Those differences alone shouldn't matter much. Based p...

2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

The GT3 RS is a Porsche 911 for those with no fear. We didn't get the 996-series GT3 RS, but Yankee speed freaks soon will be able to flog the 997-series follow-up. The RS is lighter than the already svelte GT3 thanks to the use of carbon fiber for the car's hood panel and its adjustable rear wing. W...

Opinion: 2006 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S

I went to college with a sheikh. He was a fun guy to hang out with, because his worldview was shaped by the unshakable confidence that comes with having a long row of zeros on your bank statement. He knew that he'd never get in trouble for anything short of arson or murder, so he was always good for...

Opinion: 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo

Forking over the new 911 Turbo, Porsche stipulated no to-the-death comparison tests or precise performance measurements. Of course we honored that request. But what would you do with the most powerful Porsche coupe ever produced in a land blessed with speed-limit-free autobahns? In tw...

Opinion: 2007 BMW Z4 M Roadster vs 2006 Porsche Boxster S

The Porsche Boxster versus BMW roadster rivalry is certainly not a new one, as two different iterations of Z3-based M roadsters have been offered to Americans during the Boxster's tenure. The first one bowed in 1998 with the 240-hp, 3.2-liter six from the E36-based M3. Then, after the E46 M3...