Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Porsche , New Car Reviews The Best Everyday 911 You Can Buy, Today Twenty-two. That’s how many Porsche 911 variants are available right now. And by this time next year, they’ll all be obsolete.
Driven: 2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid Sacrificing too much for too little in return. For many people, the Cayenne is an assault on Porsche’s brand integrity. The tall and heavy SUV would seem to be the polar opposite of the sports cars that have defined Porsche. But, alas, the Cayenne has become Porsche’s bestselling vehicle
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Driven: 2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid
Filed under: Performance , Hatchback , Porsche , New Car Reviews , Luxury Meeting Stuttgart’s Most Unlikely Ambassador Full Disclosure: Until just recently, I’d never driven a Porsche . It wasn’t as if I’d earned some black mark from the German sportscar maker – I’ve spent the better part my a career pontificating on the virtues of the plucky 914 and more than a few synapses thinking about scoring seat time in cars like the Boxster Spyder , Cayman R and, if I were feeling really indulgent, the 911 GT2 RS . Hell, after learning of the automaker’s prowess in the Transsyberia Rally, I even became a stout defender of the Cayenne SUV’s right to exist.
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Review: 2011 Porsche Panamera V6 [w/video]
Filed under: China , Plants/Manufacturing , Crossover , Porsche 2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo – Click above for high-res image gallery Porsche plans on doubling its sales totals to 200,000 units by 2018, and utility vehicles will be a big part of that volume push. In fact, the Cayenne is already the best-selling Porsche, and that likely won’t change any time soon. Automotive News reports that Porsche plans to increase Cayenne production by 10 percent this year and 20 percent in 2012 to help satiate demand. The recently revamped utility vehicle is in demand around the world, and in China buyers have to wait 12 months for the chance to own a Cayenne.
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Report: Porsche increasing Cayenne production
Filed under: Podcasts , Etc. Jaguar XFR Brake, Hyundai supercar, Lamborghini manuals, Red-light cameras Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Episode #238 of the Autoblog Podcast is here done, and this week Chris, Dan and Executive Editor Chris Paukert are joined by Senior Editor Damon Lavrinc. We start with the idea of Jaguar making a sport wagon XF-R and then move on to discuss Lamborghini giving up on traditional manual transmissions, contemplate a Hyundai supercar and finally chew on a study about the public feeling positive about red-light cameras. Your questions and comments finish us up, and live podcasts will be back soon at our UStream channel
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Autoblog Podcast #238
Filed under: Performance , Porsche , Luxury 2011 Porsche GT2 RS – Click above for high-res image gallery Even though Bloomberg describes Porsche sales as “flagging,” what that really means is that they aren’t growing as much as they were – the maker of go-fast cars should still have a record year. Porsche is apparently considering two ways to remedy that: one is to stagger its new unveilings so that each year births a new model, and the other is to create a supercar to occupy the space between the $245,000 911 GT2 RS and the forthcoming $845,000 918 Spyder . There are quite a few other contestants in that space, from relative newcomers like McLaren and BMW (well, soon), to rivals like Ferrari and cousins like Lamborghini (even sooner). At least one analyst doesn’t think Porsche should be having such thoughts, saying “Development costs for such showcase vehicles are huge.
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Report: Porsche pondering supercar to bridge gap between 911 GT2 RS and 918 Spyder