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  • Is the Toyota 86 really better than a Porsche?

    Is the Toyota 86 really better than a Porsche?

    Is the Toyota 86 really better than a Porsche? We bring you the answer. A short preview of which is: hell no. The full story here.

    Toyota, Porsche

  • 32 Things You Must Do Before the Apocalypse

    #27

    Drive a Porsche Carrera GT. With no exhaust. Through the Laerdal Tunnel, Norway.

    Taking the noisiest car in the world through the longest tunnel in the world. That's 24.51km of eargasms.

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  • Personal cars of Formula One drivers

    Mark Webber: Porsche 911 GT2

    This one is for the weekends, when Webber has something to get out of his system: a very, very fast 911 GT2. There's actually video of Webber thrashing this around Porsche's proving ground. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jc_34-Io-M

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  • One man's insane supercar garage

    This is what I love about the guy: he's had Miuras (two, in fact), and though his analysis of the Carrera GT is spot-on ("If you work up to it from more ordinary cars, it's a real handful. But if you get out of a serious racing car and into one, it's easier to understand"), it's the 928 GTS that really lights his fire.

    He could buy anything, and, over the years, he has ticked plenty of boxes. He co-owns his own F1 team, for God's sake. Yet top of the shopping list right now is a 1983 Golf GTI Pirelli edition. I kid you not.

     

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  • One man's insane supercar garage

    "Some people are too afraid to take risks," he says. "I'm afraid of not taking them.
    I'd hate to miss out on something." Lopez, 39, speaks softly and moves with a stealthy low energy. Born in Spain and educated in the US, he's fluent in seven languages.

    He had a pile of job offers before he'd even finished his second year at college. This is a man who has dinner with the President of Russia, breakfast with Bernie Ecclestone, and can spot a smart idea the way a hawk can spot its prey in a field four miles away. He's also the sort of finance figure that die-hard racing fans think is polluting Formula One with their unromantically hard-assed business approach to the world's greatest sport.

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  • Australia's Best Driving Roads

    Drive it in: the new Porsche 911

    Middle-aged single men don’t go to Thailand to eat tom yam soup and ride around in rickshaws (god no). And if you’re into driving, you don’t go to Tasmania to gawk at mountains and the pleasurable meadows of rolling lilac. You go to drive. And so you must take a driver’s car, like the brand new 911, whose creepily brilliant electric steering is exactly the tool you need to dissect Tasmania’s terrific roads.

    We've actually taken a 911 to Tasmania before. See Tasmania's Best Driving Roads here.

     

    Porsche, 911

  • 918 Spyder

    And not too hard on the eyes, either!

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  • 918 Spyder

    Oh, and about those Nürburgring credentials: Porsche reckons it will lap the terrifyingly green and terrifyingly terrifying circuit in 7m 22secs. That's ten whole seconds quicker than a Carrera GT. Reasonably fast, then.

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  • 918 Spyder

    You should of course, already know a fair bit about the Porsche 918 Spyder. It's got a 4.6-litre V8 that revs to 9000rpm; its got two electric motors; it's a four-wheel-drive, 574kW green machine.

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  • 918 Spyder

    But then we already knew that, because we've already had a shotgun ride in a very, very, very early prototype. Porsche has now released these lovely pictures of its upcoming halo model to let us know the first prototypes have been finished, and unlike the car we got to sit in, sports a body. A full carbon fibre reinforced plastic monocoque. That's good.

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