An amateur spy photographer caught a trio of Porsche Panamera prototypes during testing South Africa. Porsche’s new four-door coupe isn’t scheduled to make its world premiere until the Geneva Motor Show in 2009, but the German sports car maker continues to test the new model before its debut.
As we have reported several times before, the […]

For those of us that missed Top Gear on Sunday — which in the States is all of us, Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo.
Clarkson admits that the 911 Turbo is superior to (ok, faster than) his beloved Ferrari in the real world, but he also says he rather have the Ferrari. Why? […]

Spy photographers snapped the best shots so far of the Porsche Panamera four-door coupe during a fuel stop while out cold weather testing. The Panamera is four-seat GT alternative to the hard-core 911, and is Porsche’s answer to the Mercedes CLS.
While the Porsche Panamera is going to be a big car, with a weight under […]

A Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano versus a Porsche Carrera GT. A production gran tourismo versus a limited production exotic. Doesn’t seem like a fair fight to us. An Enzo/Carrera GT challenge seems to be a better match.
While Ferrari designed the 599 GTB Fiorano to be “practical” — as least practical for a $250K Ferrari, the […]

Porsche has said it will not consider offering a diesel engine in its cars to comply with future carbon-dioxide emissions limits. However, Porsche has said that it is developing a hybrid drivetrain, which is first expected in the next generation Cayenne.
Porsche, Volkswagen and Audi will jointly develop the gas-electric hybrid system that will be used […]

Porsche is preparing its Boxster for a mid-cycle facelift. Due for the start of the 2008 model year, the Boxster will sport revised front and rear fascias and will feature a few significant mechanical changes. Up front, the Boxster will get a restyled front bumper, including reshaped air intakes with new LED indicator lights. The […]

We’ve posted plenty of shots of Porsche’s facelifted 2008 911, and here are few shots of a virtually undisguised pre-production prototype.
As is fitting of Porsche, the changes are evolutionary. Up front, the facelifted 911 will get new quad-element headlamps (likely with adaptive lighting) and larger air intakes with integrated LED indicator lights. A reshaped lip […]

Porsche delivered 3,103 vehicles in North America in January 2007, down 7 percent from January 2006, as last year’s sales were buoyed by over 1,000 deliveries of the new Cayman S.
Porsche’s sports car sales were led by the 911, with a record-setting January with sales up 15 percent over last year’s sales. Boxster/Cayman series […]

With a new CEO, Volkswagen has changed its hybrid plans, and now the first vehicle to use the automaker’s gas-electric hybrid system will be the Touareg, according to German magazine Automobilewoche. VW’s new CEO Martin Winterkorn changed the plans of its former boss Bernd Pischetsrieder, who originally said the automaker’s first gas-electric would be a […]

Porsche is preparing to give its Boxster a facelift, and spy photographers caught the restyled Boxster during some cold weather testing on Sweden.
The facelifted Boxster, which is expected to arrive in 2008, features a refreshed front fascia with LED daytime running lamps, reshaped air intakes, and, based on the disguise, new headlamps. Out back, the […]