911 & Porsche World

NEXT ISSUE ON SALE FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER PRE-ORDER AT bit.ly/911PW202411 A week before penning this welcome message, I took great delight in waving like a lunatic when out in my 968 Sport and encountering a gorgeous 944 S2 Cabriolet heading in the op

It sometimes seems as though the older you get, the more time you have for the simple, uncomplicated things in life. While the headline act in the new 911 (992 Gen II) line-up is undoubtedly the clever T-Hybrid-powered GTS, the entry-level Carrera ha

Until about ten years ago, the joke about filling a fuel tank to the very top and doubling the host vehicle's value applied to the 924. It was the ‘cheap’ Porsche, occupying space in a seemingly parallel universe to the one where 911s clung tenacious

July 2021 marked the arrival of the 924 Owners Club's annual Peak District Run (the club's first major event of the year). Darting through Derbyshire alongside club veterans was then new member, Thea Blurton, who arrived at the event having driven fr

Twenty-twenty hindsight allows us to scoff at the idea of the 928 superseding the 911, but this was the thinking of Ernst Fuhrmann, Porsche Technical Director from 1971 and Chairman of the Board for the eight years leading up to 1980. While many disa

Launched in 1969, the 914 proved Porsche didn't need to survive on a diet of rear-engined metal alone. By 1975, however, the two-seater's time was up. That same year, the similarly radical 924 was launched. A failed project for Volkswagen designed by

Increased interest in Porsche's transaxle line-up has encouraged generous budgets for restoration and maintenance work, with Porsche Classic Partner Centres worldwide seeing creeping numbers of old-school, water-cooled cars rolling into their worksho

Want to sell more of a particular model? Organise a single-make race series. That'll get ’em in showrooms. On the racetracks, too. In order to boost the profile of the 944, Porsche did exactly this in 1986, instigating the 944 Turbo Cup series, kicki

The beauty of the 968 Club Sport is its straightforwardness. Instead of chasing headline figures or refining up-to-the-minute motorsport technology, Porsche retained the same near 240bhp three-litre water-cooled inline-four as the basic 968 and impro

To celebrate the 928’s fortieth anniversary, Porsche Cars Great Britain and the UK's Porsche Classic Partner Centres campaigned a specially prepared 928 in the Historic Sports Car Club's 1970s Roadsports Championship. The project came hot on the heel

All manual 968s (including the Club Sport) benefit from a six-speed gearbox in place of the 944’s five-speed unit. When out on your test drive, establish how easy is it to change gears. A high-miler may feel ‘notchy’, which may mean the clutch needs

SUBSCRIBE TO 911&Porsche SEE PAGE 116 FOR DETAILS Variable valve timing (and control) was the must-have car technology of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Japanese manufacturers appeared to be leading the way, which must have displeased the top brass

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The typical curved façade, emblazoned with red Porsche lettering over satin silver convex panelling, is a familiar sight to many. Usually mounted atop a slick glass-fronted showroom and surrounded by a rainbow of pristine sales vehicles, it signifies

SUBSCRIBE TO 911&Porsche World SEE PAGE 116 FOR DETAILS Despite what the name suggests, Beverly Hills Car Club is isn't in Beverly Hills and it isn't a car club. This doesn't bother us — Porsche Centre Cambridge is a good twenty-minute drive from Cam