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Ben Barry,
16 May 2012 07:00
Some people will scoff at this, but I like to think of myself as a fair and considerate driver: I don’t undertake people, I don’t tailgate (okay, I sometimes give dodderers a gentle push out of the fast lane, and there’s another caveat below, but bear with me), I stick to my urban speed limits, and on motorways and dual ...
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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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Chris Chilton,
29 December 2011 16:02
Doing a spot of last-minute shopping for my four-year-old, I was sorely tempted to buy this superb £40 build-it-yourself Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Probably far too tricky for the boy but I would have loved to spend Christmas morning 'helping' him to put it together. It's heartening that model makers are still switched on to the latest hot cars. Car ...
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Tim Pollard,
20 September 2011 12:44
Can you tell what it is yet? Yes, it's Porsche's answer to BMW's art cars. A new art exhibition opens today at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, the Colección Goméz. But instead of using canvasses to display their wares, a collection of enterprising South American artists has used the next most obvious medium: the bonnet from a Porsche 911 GT2. ...
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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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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 ...
