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Two of our favorites… Head to Head The 2021 Corvette Stingray has arrived in the UK. And it’s ace. It has a mid-engined 6.2-litre V8 making 495bhp which means it’s good for 0-60mph in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 184mph. And it costs? Well, it depends. It could be...
2021 Porsche 911 Targa Review 2021 Porsche 911 Targa review by The Straight Pipes. The 992 Porsche 911 Targa is pumping out 379hp and 331lb-ft from a Twin Turbo 3L Flat 6. At $184,940 CAD, would you take it over a Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche 911 GT3, Porsche 911 GT3...
Is the base 911 Carrera a better buy than the Carrera S? The new 992 version of the 911 is the most technologically advanced yet but is the regular 385bhp Porsche Carrera actually a better buy than the 450bhp Carrera S? You save £11,500 by going for the regular 911...
The 997 GT2 RS Is the Fastest Stick-Shift Production Porsche Ever The Porsche 997 GT2 RS is the rarest GT Porsche street car ever, with only 500 copies produced. Making an obscene (for the time, and now) 620 HP from 3.6 liters, the GT2 was the first 911 to feature...
Porsche 993 RS ‘Clubsport’ Driving HARD on the Nurburgring Nordschleife! In this video you will see a truely stunning Porsche 911 993 RS Clubsport driven hard on the Nurburgring Nordschleife. This 993 is far from stock, it has quite a few modifications including Moton suspension, Wiechers strut braces, Lithiumax battery,...
How the RS differs from lesser 911s The 1973 Porsche Carrera RS is instantly recognizable thanks to its distinctive “Carrera” scripts and ducktail. It’s also one of the most valuable 911 road cars that exists, even if it looks more than a bit like every other 911 of the era....
A Deep Dive Into the Porsche Taycan Turbo S Electric! The word is kryptonite to petrolheads. It genuinely hurts us, not only our belief that it’s not the whole answer, but it’s alienating us from brands we have historically loved, many of whom almost guilt trip us into how dirty...
Enjoy a close-up experience of the history of Porsche at the Porsche Museum, at night when the museum comes alive! Encounter legendary racing and sports cars, fascinating production models as well as unusual prototypes. More than 80 vehicles will take you from the early years all the way to the...
19Bozzy92, our favorite YouTuber, has caught an absolute stunner this time around, across two videos. The stunner in question is a custom made Porsche Type 997 “911 GT2 RSR”, developed with specialists RS Tuning. They took an existing 2012 Type 997 911 GT3 RSR Evo chassis, plucked the engine from...
As Europe begins to reopen, many tracks are also opening with limited capacity for those that have been itching to get out and go fast. To celebrate this reopening, despite it ongoing for about a month now, today we have two very different cars doing two very different laps at...
Porsche 911 Turbo S – The Supermarket Supercar Henry Catchpole of Carfection calls the Porsche 911 Turbo S (992) the ultimate supermarket supercar. By this, he means it can do everything that a supercar needs to do, but it can also work as an everyday car without any issues basically...
Porsche 997 GT2 RS versus 991 GT2 RS Porsche’s 991 GT2 RS remains the most powerful and fastest 911 ever built, able to deploy 700 horsepower with a lightning-quick seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and lap the Nürburgring in 6 minutes and 47 seconds. The 997 GT2 RS isn’t quite as...
Taycan Turbo vs Turbo S Comparison 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo Review and 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S Review by The Straight Pipes. The Porsche Taycan Turbo makes more horsepower during a launch than the Turbo, but makes the same 616hp otherwise. Would this be your pick over the Porsche 911...
In our series of looking back at the racing icons of history this month, in preparation of global motorsports returning in July 2020, our second article is about one of the most famous Porsche race cars of all time. From the Grand Tour show, James May, or better known as...
Now That’s What I Call Driving This is Stuart McFarlane´s beautiful Porsche 911 SC Safari, a 1974 machine built to tackle Rallying events on gravel, equipped with the iconic 3.0L Flat 6 Naturally Aspirated and still using the Gravel-spec suspension. Such a combination makes for some spectacular wheel-lifting action. Mr....
911 Owner Stories: Dan and his 993 Carrera 4S At a young age, Dan Brunn moved from Tel Aviv to LA; armed with a love of cars, but unable to speak English, he found a novel way to interact with other children who shared his passion – through car designs...
A week ago, spy shots of the new Porsche Type 992 911 GT3 testing on the Nordschleife in Germany were unveiled. Over the weekend, 19Bozzy92, on of YouTube’s best at capturing raw supercar sounds, was going through his older video captures. To his surprise, he found that he had captures...
Drifting is generally reserved for cars with massive power, rear wheel drive, and all the electronic goodies turned off. So when Autocar decided to take a Porsche Taycan Turbo, itself in its entirety an “electronic goodie,” onto a skidpad to see if it would drift, a few eyebrows were raised....