One of my Facebook friends posted a photo from the Autobahn a few days ago. He was trying to reach 186 mph (300 kph) in a Porsche 911 992, something he had achieved 30 years ago in a Brabus SL600. So, ...
Window shopping doesn't cost a single cent, and having a clear target for your future is always good. One of my objectives is ...
When I first laid eyes on my 996 Turbo two years ago today, it was in a bit of a sad state. This car has lived a hard life of 90,000 miles, serving as a demo car for a drift racer, and a friend's ...
I bought maybe the cheapest Porsche 996 Turbo—that's right, Jalopnik is a two-Porsche 996 family—on the market a year ago, and I've mostly been happily stacking miles on the odometer since then. I ...
The current Porsche 911 Turbo S is one of the fastest-accelerating production cars in existence and this latest drag racing video from CarWow shows just how much quicker it has become over the decades ...
The Eskimos are said to distinguish thirty-seven different kinds of snow and ice. The Laplanders, who live much closer to civilization, can probably still name seventeen different varieties. But I'm ...
The Porsche 911 could well be called the quintessential cult car. Conceived 60 years ago, the 911 began development as the 901, though Porsche was forced to change its name when Peugeot, who claimed ...
The front end of Scott Tucker's 2001 Porsche 996 Turbo SCCA "Hurricane" race car, which will head to auction in November 2021 It’s hard to understand just how expensive it is to race cars if you’re ...
Rather than just bolting an electric motor to an existing 911, Porsche designed an entirely new 3.6 L flat-six engine, taking the opportunity to ditch the belt drive and move some of the ancillaries, ...
Two decades later, the furor around the 996’s introduction still feels like a blur. Long slandered as the worst of eight generations of 911, too often by people who’ve never sat in one, the 996 is, in ...
A black 996 Cabriolet has been parked for over a year as locals speculate what happened to the owner. We know that the ...
The Porsche 911 Turbo has always had a reputation for punching above its weight as a supercar slayer. The trouble is, at near as makes little difference £200k, the new 2026 911 Turbo S now has a ...