The First Year with My 911 After driving my new Carrera T for six months, the car I had high expectations for actually exceeded them. Despite being a superlative drive, showing incredible build quality and revealing brilliant engineering, it still came with a few surprises. I received my 911 in early December of 2023 and […]
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A Surprise at the Mercedes-Benz Museum The Mercedes Benz Museum collection span the complete history of the automobile, which is impressive in itself, but one oddity from the 1930s piqued our interest. When we visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in 1980, the number of historically significant cars stored in that building was staggering. However, also included
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Mobility in Amsterdam Walking, cycling, driving and taking public transport in Amsterdam is like no other city. Lydia and I visited Amsterdam for the first time in September 2023. It may seem odd for a web site devoted to sports cars and motoring to cover a city where driving is explicitly discouraged, but I think
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The Most Influential Sports Cars Part 2 (1960 to 2019) In Part 1 we examined the great sports cars from 1900 to 1959. In this article we will cover 1960 to 2019. Please refer to the rules I set for this list of sports cars in the introductory section of Part 1. Let us continue
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The Most Influential Sports Cars – Part 1 (1900 to 1959) In this article we examine the first half of the Twentieth Century. In Part 2, we will cover 1960 to 2019. Car lovers can’t get enough of those five or ten Best Car rundowns we come across, whether produced as articles or You Tube
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Porsche 911 992.2 The unusual powertrain designed for the new GTS T-Hybrid takes our thinking in new directions, including reflecting on jet engines. When the 992 version of the Porsche 911 was announced in 2018, we all knew there was something sinister afoot. The instrument panel was now digital except for an analogue tachometer, it
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Does the T in the Porsche 911 Carrera T Actually Stand for Touring? Traveling to Montreal for a four-day visit in my new Carrera T gave me a whole other perspective on what the car can do. Many people assume the letter T in the name of this Porsche 911 variant stands for Turbo. Even
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Visiting the Old Porsche Museum A trip to the Porsche Museum in 1980 was a worthwhile detour full of interesting surprises It was our first time traveling to Europe. Lydia and I had bought rail passes allowing us to go anywhere on the continent. As a result, we were setting our travel itinerary on the
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Selecting a Color for Your New Porsche 911 With all the other things to worry about when choosing a 911, you also need to pick a color, bearing in mind you are dealing with an iconic sports car, steeped in automotive tradition. Over the course of our forty-six years of car ownership Lydia and I
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A Lifetime of Watching Porsches (Part 2) Driving a bright green Porsche 911 Targa in 1980 In Part 1 of this article (Article #3), I recount how I discovered Porsche sports cars as a boy and how I kept an eye on them as I was growing up. As a young adult I became friends
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