In our quest to bring you original content, automotive journalist, Mark Atkinson shares his experience from the Porsche World Roadshow. This is the first time the Roadshow has made it to Canada. Held at Mosport International Raceway, Mark was putting the Porsches to the test both on and off-road.
Porsche shook the automotive world when it announced it was pulling its support from just about every auto show on the planet. Why spend millions showing off the styling? Why have people watching videos of Porsche victories, imagining how the flat sixes sound nearing redline? What’s the point?
Story by Mark Atkinson
Photos courtesy Paul Giamou/Porsche Canada
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Something about this has us grinning, and its not the exhaust sound…
The engineers of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, have developed a new sports exhaust system for the latest generation of the 911, available as an option on new models as of February 2009. This special exhaust gives the customer the opportunity to adjust the 911 to his individual, personal preferences also in the car’s particular sound: At the touch of a button the exhaust system switches over to a sporting and emotional sound generated in particular whenever the driver prefers a truly dynamic style of motoring.
Continue reading ‘New Sports Exhaust System for the Porsche 911 Carrera and Targa 4′
Against the backdrop of a difficult market environment, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG in Stuttgart supplied a total of 1,516 cars to North America in August – 1,404 to the USA and 112 to Canada. The 45 percent drop compared to the previous year is in line with Porsche expectations and can be explained by the upcoming launch of the new 911 Carrera and Targa models. Sales of the 911 range decreased by 58 per cent to 366 cars, which was down to its lifecycle. The new 911 Carrera model with direct fuel injection ensuring lower gasoline consumption and the Porsche double-clutch transmission will be launched in the USA and Canada on 20 September 2008. The four-wheel drive version of the 911 Carrera and the new 911 Targa, which in addition to that has a new electronic four-wheel drive system, will be available from 25 October 2008.
In the month under review, there were a total of 832 deliveries of the Cayenne range in the USA and Canada, which is nine per cent less than in the same month last year. 318 cars from the Boxster range were sold in August (a drop of 66 per cent). Of this figure, a total of 130 were either the Cayman or Cayman S.
Introducing the new 911 Targa, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is completing the fastest generation change the world has ever seen in the 911 model series: Two new power units with direct fuel injection improve both performance and the economy of the new model, the fast-shifting PDK Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe or double-clutch gearbox replaces the optional Tiptronic S automatic transmission, and electronically controlled PTM Porsche Traction Management takes the place of the former all-wheel drive. Continue reading ‘New Porsche 911 with Glass Roof and Tailgate coming in Autumn’
