Please let this be true … Please let this be true … Please let this be true. There’s rumors flying everywhere today that VW, new owners of corporate and literal siblings Porsche, are planning on going all choppy-choppy on the Cayenne and Panamera. It couldn’t happen to two more worthless cars.

Wait, let me rephrase that. It’s not that the Cayenne and Panamera aren’t well engineered. Everything I’ve read about both of them talk about how impressive they are from a performance standpoint for things like SUVs and big sedans.

But that’s just the point. They’re SUVs and big sedans!

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Drum roll please. Here it is, the new, uber-Porsche, the track car that also poses as a street car on occasion, the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Impressive, isn’t it? Well yeah, there’s those wheels – or actually the wheel color, but we can get beyond that (or get new wheels). 450 horsepower can help you get beyond a lot of things … like other cars, the curvature of the Earth and a few Newtonian “laws”.

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Really? Has it been forty years since Porsche rolled out the 917? Man, I am getting old. I remember when those were new. They hit the scene as a complete, but inevitable surprise, and at the time, it looked like they had a ton of potential, but also had a bunch of … well, let’s just call them quirks. Quirks that could get you killed.

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You’re probably familiar with supercar tours by now, which include World Class Driving, Road & Track Live, and Gotham Dream Cars. These tours let you and a small group of people take some of the wildest supercars on the road for a drive. Most of these tours travel across the US, and some travel overseas. The problem with these tours is that they range from $1500 to $6400. While this may be a fair deal for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it’s out of most people’s price range. What most people don’t know is that there are some smaller but similar supercar tours, and they can be much easier on your wallet.

We recently had a chance to meet up with one of those groups based out of Charlotte, NC called Supercar Sensation. Started just last year, Supercar Sensation gets you into seven different supercars starting at only $200 - a much more affordable option for most. But are you going to get the same experience as the more expensive options? While it may be less expensive, could it be a lesser value than the rest? Continue Reading…

Gemballa Porsche Tornado 750 GTS

Now this is how tuning companies need to modify their cars. I’m so sick of seeing a “tuning company” take a Ferrari F430, add a rear wing, a tuned ECU, a new exhaust and some new wheels, charge $200,000 over base price, and call it their own creation. While you may not like the look of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo-based Gemballa Tornado 750 GTS, you can’t deny that they did this right.

So Gemballa, a Porsche tuning company located about 12 miles from the Porsche plant in Stuttgart, Germany, took the Cayenne and gave it one helluva makeover. The extreme styling makes the otherwise rather homely Cayenne look much more like sports car, and at the very least, stands out among a crowd. Nearly every body panel has been changed, and their replacements are made solely from carbon fiber, which helped significantly in their weight reduction of over 550 lbs. The body not only helps with styling and weight, but is a higher-than-usual contributor to better aerodynamics and engine cooling. Lightweight 22-inch forged wheels round out the exterior changes.

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Ta-dah! There it is, the long speculated, rumored, spy photo’ed and fussed over Porsche Panamera. Long in its gestation, the Panamera is Porsche’s first four door. Much can and will be said about this car. People will talk about its combination of functionality and performance. Porsche is already saying it can hit 60 in the fives, and God knows what it’ll top out at (once that limited is circumvented). The Panamera can bee seen as a good example of German engineering some will say, but a wise man once said, “Those responsible should be hunted down with dogs and saps,” and who am I to argue?

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