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Consumer Reports Tests Find $100,000 Electric Fisker Karma Plagued With Flaws

Consumer Reports Tests Find $100,000 Electric Fisker Karma Plagued With Flaws

Porsche Panamera easily outpoints Karma in face-off of luxury sports cars The plug-in extended range electric Fisker Karma can go gas free for 38 miles on a full charge, but Consumer Reports' engineers found it full of flaws: Compared with other luxury sedans, the Karma has tight confines and limited visibility, and a ... Continue reading

New Twin-Turbo V8 Porsche Cayenne S Diesel Set To Become The 'Torque' Of The Town

New Twin-Turbo V8 Porsche Cayenne S Diesel Set To Become The 'Torque' Of The Town

The new Porsche Cayenne S Diesel offers a compelling combination of dynamic performance and efficiency. Featuring a 4.2-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine developing 381 hp and 850 Newton metres of torque, the S Diesel provides the most pulling power of any Cayenne currently on sale. ... Continue reading

ExxonMobil Expands Partnership with Porsche

ExxonMobil Expands Partnership with Porsche

ExxonMobil announced a multi-year expansion of their partnership with Porsche AG that includes technical support of Porsche's return to LMP1 endurance racing in the World Endurance Championship racing series in 2014. 'Teaming with the Mobil 1 technology experts has helped Porsche to achieve its outstanding racing perfo ... Continue reading

Porsche Reports August Sales

Porsche Reports August Sales

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche sports cars, Cayenne SUVs and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, today announced August 2012 sales of 3,026 vehicles. This compares to 2,184 vehicles sold last August, for an increase of 39 percent. For the year, ... Continue reading

Total Quality Report - Volkswagen Has Best Total Quality, Toyota Fewest Problems, See Complete List Of Winners

Total Quality Report - Volkswagen Has Best Total Quality, Toyota Fewest Problems, See Complete List Of Winners

San Diego August 27, 2012; Strategic Vision announces results of its 2012 Total Quality Index™ (TQI) study. With the industry best of only 17% of owners reporting problems, Toyota Motor Sales corporation had the lowest reported problems, resulting in Strategic Vision's lowest “Problem Impact Measure” (PI ... Continue reading

BorgWarner Turbo Systems Receives Porsche Supplier Of The Year Award

BorgWarner Turbo Systems Receives Porsche Supplier Of The Year Award

BorgWarner Turbo Systems received first prize as one of ten 2011 Porsche Supplier of the Year Award winners at a ceremony held recently at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. BorgWarner Turbo Systems, located in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, was honored for its high quality, reliability and outstanding performance ... Continue reading

Lighter, Faster, More Agile: The New Porsche 911 Carrera 4

Lighter, Faster, More Agile: The New Porsche 911 Carrera 4

The new Porsche 911 Carrera 4 unites the excellent performance and efficiency of the new generation of the 911 Carrera with the dynamic benefits of the latest version of the active all-wheel drive system PTM (Porsche Traction Management). The typical Porsche all-wheel drive with rear-focused layout in this latest 911 v ... Continue reading

New Porsche 911 Carrera S Named 2012 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car

New Porsche 911 Carrera S Named 2012 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car

- Motor Trend has chosen the Porsche 911 Carrera S as its Best Driver's Car for 2012. ... Continue reading

NICB Names 10 Most-Stolen Vehicles for 2011

NICB Names 10 Most-Stolen Vehicles for 2011

DES PLAINES, Ill., Aug. 20, 2012; The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released Hot Wheels − its list of the 10 most-stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, ... Continue reading

Porsche Supplier Award for Preh

Porsche Supplier Award for Preh

Preh GmbH, Bad Neustadt, has been awarded Porsche's Supplier Award 2012at the Dr. Ingh.c. F. Porsche AG in Stuttgart, placing Preh amongPorsche's top ten suppliers in 2011. The Bad Neustadt supplier was honored primarily for their exemplary collaboration and communication, and for good production quality of the new cli ... Continue reading

New Porsche Centre Opens In Portsmouth

New Porsche Centre Opens In Portsmouth

A brand new, state-of-the-art Porsche Centre has opened in Portsmouth to serve customers in the south coast region of England. The development, which is one of the largest Porsche Centres in the UK, demonstrates a major investment in the Porsche business and the local region. ... Continue reading

Porsche Gears up for Historic Week on the Monterey Peninsula

Porsche Gears up for Historic Week on the Monterey Peninsula

At its traditional location on Peter Hay Hill overlooking the famed Lodge at Pebble Beach, Porsche will exhibit the latest iterations of its Cayenne, Panamera, Boxster and 911 model lines next to their inspirational forbearers of decades ago at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance weekend, August 17-19, 2012 ... Continue reading

Customers In The UK And Usa Place Porsche In Pole Position

Customers In The UK And Usa Place Porsche In Pole Position

Which? magazine car survey has placed the Porsche Cayman top in the Sportscar segment of its influential annual review. Customers also rated the Porsche brand and its retail network as the best in the business in the UK. ... Continue reading

Porsche Reports July Sales

Porsche Reports July Sales

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche sports cars, Cayenne SUVs and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, today announced July 2012 sales of 2,803 vehicles. This compares to 2,768 vehicles sold last July, for an increase of one percent. For the year, Po ... Continue reading

Ride Along with Fireball Tim and the 2013 Porsche 911 +VIDEO

Ride Along with Fireball Tim and the 2013 Porsche 911 +VIDEO

HOLLYWOOD, CA - August 1, 2012: Fireball Tim goes all MATRIX over the new 2013 Porsche 911 in this wild episode of this successful and fun RIDE ALONG series. ... Continue reading

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