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Phil McNamara,
05 March 2012 11:45
1. The 911 is still awesome at hunting down tail-lamps There's a savage sound as you pin the 911 Carrera's throttle in third, an 'awoooo' like the howl of a wolf. It's spine-tingling and utterly appropriate, because this leg of my journeys in new 911s is a pitch-black B-road blast across Salisbury Plain. Like American Werewolf in the west country ...
In the new March 2012 issue of CAR Magazine Ben Pulman has taken Porsche's new 911 on a 1400-mile road trip, seeking out the best driving roads in California. From the famous Pacific Coast Highway, to the snowy Angeles Crest Highway at over 7000ft, down to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, it's an epic adventure (and comprehensive review) in the first all-new 911 since things ...
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Ben Pulman (lead image by Mark Bramley),
01 March 2012 09:01
I wasn’t expecting a dose of manual labour when I arrived at the Porsche Museum last month to interview Hans Mezger. And to deviate slightly, Mezger, if you haven’t read the feature in this month’s issue of CAR, is the man who designed the first 911’s flat-six engine. And the Le Mans-winning 917 racer (both its engine and the car ...
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Ben Pulman,
13 January 2012 09:36
In the current January 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, before anyone else, we’ve pitched the new Porsche 911 in Carrera S guise against the latest MY12 Nissan GT-R, BMW’s Competition Pack-spec M3, and Audi’s R8 V8. You can read Georg Kacher and Jethro Bovingdon's verdicts in the magazine, but here's a counterpoint from CAR's road test editor. The BMW M3 ...
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Ben Barry,
27 December 2011 09:00
The Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone is a purpose-built facility that’s located just next to the Silverstone GP circuit, on a bit of land that once formed the super-special stages at Rally GB. These days there’s a swish showroom with a mix of new and classic metal, a restaurant, a short, twisty track that looks more like a British B-road ...
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Tim Pollard,
01 August 2011 10:25
One of the huge privileges of this job is the sheer range of cars we get to drive. It provides some marvellous juxtapositions. I was reminded of this last week when I hopped out of a Porsche 911 GT3 one night and into a Citroen C-Zero electric car the next. You can see a cameraphone pic of the disparate pair ...
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Ben Barry,
14 March 2011 14:15
My wife has spent the best part of a decade patiently standing at the side of race tracks from Mondello to the Nurburgring, watching as I have a riotous old time, poised with the record button on our camera, holding a screaming child, being sunburned and/or lashed with rain. So it seemed only fair to turn the tables and let ...
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Anthony ffrench-Constant,
04 March 2011 07:00
With sales up 27% in the UK last year, the nice man from Porsche who introduced me to the new Carrera GTS was clearly feeling understandably bullish about all things 911. ‘The engineers got it right first time’ he crooned. Erm, sorry, but I think you’ll find it was actually someone else who did that… Anthony on the history of ...
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Jethro Bovingdon,
31 December 2010 09:14
It might be very childish but I do love a gratuitous oversteer shot. They look great, are loads of fun to do and often tell you a surprising amount about how much confidence you’ve gained after a few hours in a brand new car. If you jump at the chance it’s a sure sign that you like the car in ...
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Ben Barry,
22 December 2010 09:00
There were lots of questions in my head before we left Dover for the south of France and Performance Car Of The Year 2010, but one was easy: scariest car? The Porsche 911 GT2RS. I reckon you’ll either know exactly what this car is, or you’ll have all the GT and RS cars jumbled together in your brain and won’t ...
