Porsche 911 Turbo LE – a slant-nose without the slant-nose
The Porsche 911 Turbo LE of 1989 offers all the benefits of the SE but without the Slant-Nose styling. The 911 Turbo SE of the mid-1980s offered a useful 30bhp…
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Porsche 911 Turbo – fuel economy vs depreciation
New Porsches offer remarkable fuel economy, a fact which fellow motoring writer Richard Aucock today flagged up on Twitter with this photo (above) of a Porsche 991 Turbo which he's…
Porsche 991 Turbo Cabriolet
Porsche has just announced details of its latest incarnation of the 911 Turbo Cabriolet. Here's what the company has to say about it: The dynamic range of the new 911…
Porsche 911SC and 911 Turbo engines
Here's an interesting photo I found in my archives. It's a press shot of a Porsche 911SC and 911 Turbo from 1976, showing each car with its respective engine. The…
New Porsche 991 Turbo in action on the Nürburgring
I'm not a big fan of YouTube videos of cars driving around a track, but this one is different. It shows the yet to be released Porsche 991 Turbo being…
Why a 996 Carrera 4S is a good choice
I had a call yesterday from a chap wanting to buy his first 911 – a 996. As soon as he said his budget was around £23,000, I immediately thought…
The ultimate Porsche fantasy?
This was shared by the Facebook Porsche in the movies page, and is a trailer for a 1980s Australian film called Freedom! It shows a young man fantasising about a…
Switching from left to right
A 993 for under £15,000 is unusual so an advert for the car above caught my attention. Prices of 993s, perhaps more than for any other 911, are very sensitive to mileage…
Rare Porsche 911 Turbo Targa
Here's a very rare Porsche 911. It's a 1988 Turbo Targa. Porsche only made Targa versions of the Turbo in 1988 and 1989, and just 297 were sold worldwide in…
Can a Porsche be too cheap?
I had a call from a chap who was considering buying a 996 Carrera 4S. The 4S is the Turbo-bodied car and sells for a premium over the standard car.…
