The Porsche 944 was a mid market sports coupe from the makers of the 911 and was sold from 1982-1991. Equipped with a 50:50 weight distribution and Porsche engineering chassis/suspension means that it’s always been lauded for its fantastic handling, but saddled with a number of boat anchor inline 4 cylinder engines and even the […]
The Porsche 912 was built in two separate production runs, the first from 1965-69 as a replacement for the discontinued 356 and was replaced by the entry level 914 (and 911T to some extent). However, the 914 was discontinued in 1976 and Porsche needed a replacement entry-level car and they built 2,100 Porsche 912’s with […]
The LA Auto show press days have come and gone, free food has been stuffed in Journalist’s faces, swag given and taken, and soon the LA convention center will be flooded with regular folks who aren’t cheapskates looking for a free lunch and a free ride in exchange for constant positive publicity for every piece […]
The 914 was meant to slot into Porsche’s showrooms under the 911 and also fill the top of VW/Audi’s lineup – but Porsche didn’t want to risk having the VW nameplate tarnish its image and convinced VW to allow it to sell all 914’s through its USA dealer network. The resulting car was slow but […]
The Porsche 993 is the last generation of aircooled Porsche 911s and represents the high note for 911 production. The next generation of 911 (the 996) was softer, quieter and generally sissified in every manner and super unreliable to boot! Thirty years of constant development on the basic aircooled flat 6 and taming the tail […]
The Porsche 914 was created from a collaboration between Porsche and VW to replace the Porsche 912 and Karmann Ghia respectively. Today’s VW Chairman of the Board Ferdinand Piëch was the project leader for the 914 and the resulting 2-seater sold in much better than the 911 and setup the formula for cheaper Porsches for […]
Perhaps it was something to do with watching vintage racers tear around a track for a few days – but we were in the mood for a track rat and found a good one. This 1982 Porsche 911 SC has been converted into a track car and is currently for sale in Dublin, OH for […]
Porsche designed its first front engine sports coupe in the mid 70s – fully expecting the rear engined 911 to fade into the sunset. Fortunately, the 911 and its snap-oversteer-into-a-tree handling soldiered on and fought off the onslaught of front engined Porsches, but not before 380,000 front engine coupes (924, 928, 944 & 968) were […]
Prices for air cooled Porsche 911s have been a bit of a roller coaster recently – decent running cars selling for as little as $10k or as much as $20k in the last 10 years. Currently the trend has been to reverse some of the appreciation for ‘daily driver’ non rare examples as demonstrated by […]
The Porsche Boxster first launched in 1997 and brought open air Porsche flat six sounds to the working class…but it had Volkswagen acceleration and it wasn’t until model year 2000 and the introduction of the “S” model (German for shhhporteee) that you could get one with a decent amount of horsepower and a 6spd transaxle. […]