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Jerry Sloniger,
23 February 2012 11:51
To mark CAR Magazine's Porsche special in the new March 2012 issue, we've also looked back - to when we first drove the 911 at launch in 1965. This is our first review of the very first 911, taken from our archive and reprinted in full here. If you like your Porsches, don't miss the new magazine. We've ridden in ...
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Ben Pulman,
21 November 2011 09:23
Either this is the moment you’ve been waiting for since the first 991-spec Porsche 911 prototypes were spotted testing on the road back in 2008, or you should look away now as we drive the first of many iterations of the new generation rear-engined icon. And rear engined it still most obviously is: that silhouette is unmistakable. The sleeker rear ...
2.5
Tim Pollard,
22 September 2011 10:41
There's a special treat for Porschephiles in the new October 2011 issue of CAR Magazine: we've nabbed the first ride in the new 991-spec Porsche 911 - alongside rally ace Walter Rohrl. The new 911 is one of the highlights of 2012, and our European correspondent Georg Kacher spent two days riding shotgun with Rohrl around Alpine passes in the ...
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Jethro Bovingdon,
01 July 2011 09:42
If you’re one of those people who think that Porsche should have given up on the 911 formula years ago – despite the gazillions of race victories and countless great road iterations that prove you’re wrong – then the GT3 RS 4.0 is just another refinement of a flawed concept. However, for those of us who are in on the ...
Watch Jethro Bovingdon's video review of the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0. It's a fitting swansong to the current, 997 family of 911s - one final blast before the new 991 arrives at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. The RS 4.0 costs £128,466 and Porsche will build just 600 of them (they're already sold out, sadly). That's a lot ...
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Chris Chilton,
20 April 2011 09:30
Let’s clear one thing up right now before anyone makes a very incorrect assumption. Despite the presence of that evocative ducktail rear spoiler, retro Fuchs-style wheels and a bile-raising reference in the press material to the 911 Sport Classic being the grandson of the legendary 1973 Carrera RS 2.7, the two are distant cousins at best. The Carrera RS was ...
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Ben Pulman,
22 December 2010 09:00
This is the Porsche 911 GT2 RS, not just the most powerful 911 that Porsche has ever built, but also the company's most powerful road car period. It has 611bhp from its twin-turbocharged 3.6-litre flat six, and for the facelifted 997 911 Porsche hasn’t bothered building a regular GT2 but skipped straight to this RS-spec car. It costs £100k more ...
2.5
Ben Pulman,
25 November 2010 12:45
This is Porsche’s new 911 Speedster, a limited-edition special that pays tribute to the original 356 Speedster. It’s also an open-top follow up to last year’s 911 Sport Classic, a 25th birthday present for Porsche Exclusive (the arm of Porsche that created the Sport Classic and Speedster) and a final hurrah for the current 997-generation 911. More powerful with a ...
3.5
Ben Pulman,
19 November 2010 17:30
This is the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, and it has the potential to be the best all-round 911 yet. An engine upgrade boosts power and torque; it uses the more seductive wide body from the four-wheel drive models; and features a whole host of other options for not much more cash than a standard Carrera S. Yes, we know the ...
3.5
Ben Pulman,
28 May 2010 11:45
This is Porsche's new 911 GT3 RS, a harder and faster version of the already hard and fast GT3. Traditionally it's the best Porsche 911 variant - the GT2 is often too extreme and the turbo'd engine lacks aural delight - so what's the new one like? Read on for CAR's first drive review. So it’s a Porsche 911 GT3 that’s ...
