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Porsche 911 EV Conversion from Sacrilege Motors
“With our Porsche 911 commissions, we’ve set very demanding performance and reliability targets,” claimed Bobby Singh, president and technical lead of Sacrilege Motors. “Fellten hits those targets completely. They build their system like an OEM would – the way it’s engineered, designed and blueprinted – allowing us to focus on the driving dynamics, and on maintaining the soul of these classic Porsche 911s.” Sacrilege declined to comment about costs when AutoInformed inquired. Better if your beach is comprised of precious stones rather than pebbles, we think. Continue reading
Gen Eight 911 Undergoing Final Testing
By the time, testing is complete, the cars have been driven around three million kilometers in total. After all of this, every component of the car must function just as reliably as it did at the outset. Continue reading
Milestones – One Millionth Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 arguably created a new category and remains a premium sports car despite its rear engine design – that critics pointed out was like a trying to throw a dart backwards at high speeds. Continue reading
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Silverstone Classic – Record Crowds, Largest 911 Parade Lap
The 2013 Silverstone Classic claims to the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival now that the results are in. The three-day show this past weekend in the UK said attendance of 90,000, up from 83,500 in 2012 was a record. The 24 vintage races with 1113 historic racing cars covering nine decades of motorsports, also is claimed to be a new world record. Continue reading
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New Porsche Paint Shop for New 911s at Zuffenhausen
The opening of the new paint shop this week in Zuffenhausen coincides with the start of production of the new Porsche 911, arguably the most famous sports car in the world since its 1964 début. The revised 911 bodies are painted inside and out in a dust free environment at the enclosed plant, which is located in a densely populated urban area of Stuttgart. Continue reading
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Revised Porsche 911 Debuts at 2011 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show
In a nod to the Japanese and the global video game culture, the instrument cluster has five round instruments – one of them a high resolution multifunction screen – shame on you Porsche. Continue reading
Porsche 911 Hybrid Debuts on 28 May
Porsche said this morning in in Stuttgart that a hybrid-drive 911 sports car has completed development and will premiere on 28 May 2024. It is said to be 8.7 seconds faster than its predecessor on the Nürburgring, the track that is often used by marketers of performance sports cars for bolstering credulity of claims. Porsche performance claims have an extremely high degree of certainty in AutoInformed’s experience. Continue reading →