A new Porsche ad campaign is touting the many practical advantages of owning one of the German automaker's iconic sports cars.
Diana Magnay rides with legendary driver Walter Roehrl, who talks about the design and engineering of the Porsche 911.
Recently, Consumer Reports magazine issued its list of best and worst used cars, and divvied them up by price range.
That navy blue sedan behind you with the flashing blue light on the dash is probably a cop -- but it could be a creep using police paraphernalia to get you to pull over.
"You can't plan your life, because if you do, it will be too narrow," shouted Carlos Ghosn over the bellowing baritone of a twin-turbo V-6.
If you're like me, you probably log a lot of miles for business -- and often at the pointy end of the plane, thanks to frequent-flier programs.
Tatiana Golovin beat Martina Mueller 6-1 6-1 on Monday -- the first day of the Porsche Grand Prix, which has attracted eight of the top-10 women in the world.
The fastest driver ever caught on Britain's roads has been jailed. ITN's Phil Reay-Smith reports.
We Drive: BMW M6updated: Tue Jul 31 2007 23:45:00
Prejudice is a funny thing. I was prepared not to like BMW's M6. Not that I thought it would be a bad car -- BMW, as a rule, isn't prone to making duff automobiles -- it's just I wasn't entirely sure what it was supposed to be. An executive coupe with a 5-liter V10 engine and 500 bhp? With a price tag that could buy you a Porsche 911 or most of an Aston Martin V8 Vantage? What fresh nonsense was this? But prejudice is there to be challenged.
Talk about a dream job. A handful of lucky engineers just outside Paris earn their euros creating wild concept cars for Peugeot, and their only imperative is to advance the state of automotive design.
If you were to buy the car of your dreams - say, a Porsche 911 GT3 (sticker price, $106,000) - the odds are you'd drive it about 30 days a year and cover maybe 1,000 miles. Those are widely accepte...
Decades later, the view from the cramped, rock-hard back seat of my father's Porsche is imprinted clearly in my mind. I remember the sound of the air-cooled engine just behind me and the smell of his hair oil.
Decades later, the view from the cramped, rock hard back seat of my father's Porsche is imprinted clearly in my mind. I remember the sound of the air-cooled engine just behind me and the smell of his hair oil.
A 20-year-old Texas college student recently won a Chevrolet Cobalt SS. He didn't spin a wheel or pick some lucky numbers.
It costs more to own a car in Detroit, an amazing $12,210 per year for a mid-sized sedan, than in any other city in the country, according to a new report comparing the cost of car ownership in various U.S. cities.
In testing the most expensive group of cars the magazine has ever purchased, Consumer Reports rated the Porsche 911 as the top high-performance sports car.
Fortune: Ferrari fraternityupdated: Fri Aug 18 2006 17:15:00
For many years radios were not standard equipment on Ferraris, says Al Zemke. If a prospective buyer asked where the radio was, he continues, a good Ferrari salesman would "point to the gear shift lever and say, 'That's the selector,' and point to the foot throttle and say, 'That's the volume.' "
Having fallen in love with a bunch of computer-animated, anthropomorphized vehicles who express emotion with eyes made from windshields and smiles from metallic front grills, I do believe the exemplary Pixar team who made the beguiling comedy adventure "Cars" could draw a mote of dust and a pair of socks and turn them into characters worth caring about.
Not too long ago, if you wanted a real high-performance vehicle -- one that started fast, accelerated quickly and cornered hard -- you bought a sports car.
A growing number of Americans are finding surprisingly lucrative new vocations in previously unimaginable places: the imaginary worlds created by online games.
Business 2.0: Jet Taxiupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
Should you want to parse the particulars of owning a Lamborghini, you'd need numbers rather than words. To wit: The average Lambo buyer--and there are 500 of them each year--has assets exceeding $1...
These 2002 model-year vehicles ranked first in their categories in the most recent J.D. Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study.
A look at marketing data showing which cars men prefer and which ones women like revealed something I'd long suspected.
People who enjoy cars tend to engage in a numeric reductionism that is both charming and slightly off-putting. I have a friend--let's call him Jay--for whom automobiles function as bookmarks in the...
Money Magazine: Leaders Of The Packupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
When three kings of the road deliver great redesigns within a few months of one another, it's a gift an auto enthusiast can appreciate. When the kings are named Mustang, Corvette and Porsche 911, h...
For many Porschephiles -- myself included -- the outgoing 911 went too far in softening the exterior's shape. Even Porsche executives now admit a correction was called for.
FSB: Garage Monsterupdated: Fri Oct 01 2004 00:01:00
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles—since childhood, Gary Briggs has loved anything with an engine in it. The son of an airline mechanic, Briggs spent 30 years managing corporate aviation facilities be...
Most of us live in a world that's altogether too grown up. Too many meetings, too many budgets, too many market gyrations, too few hours of sleep. Small wonder that we sometimes wish for something ...
Off the top of my head, I don't know who makes my toaster. Making toast isn't very involved, and my toaster demands little of me. So long as I pay my electric bill, it's happy. I don't think about ...
Money Magazine: Five great joy ridesupdated: Wed Aug 07 2002 16:43:00
A lot of cars today are like toasters. They are appliances. They are simple, unobtrusive pieces of technology that require little from their owners -- just put the thing in D, step on the gas and you're on your way.
Get into a new Corvette in red, white or the new Electron Blue. Jam down the accelerator and feel the pure exhilaration delivered by this made-in-America beauty. Chevrolet reminded everyone of the 'vette's fine points with the top-of-the-line Z06 introduced last year. This year's Z06 got a further horsepower boost to 405 for its 5.7-liter V-8 engine, but it comes only in a hardtop with a six-speed manual transmission. So if you want a slick-looking convertible with automatic transmission, you'll still get plenty of kicks from the standard, 350-hp engine.
Fortune: Cool Toolsupdated: Mon May 14 2001 00:01:00
Flat Is Phat
Sitting in front of my house was $70,000 worth of the fastest car Mercedes ever made. Trouble was, I couldn't move it. Two inches of snow and ice in the driveway had made the car immobile.
For seats to the hottest shows in town, you'll probably have to call a ticket broker. If you want to sit behind the wheel of the most coveted cars, you'll have to deal with a "car flipper."
Fortune: Mad For The Jagupdated: Mon Apr 17 2000 00:01:00
With the economy floating like an untethered balloon, there are so many fine luxury cars that it's tough to keep pace--and, in fact, I haven't. For example, one of the most outlandishly competent o...
Fortune: Porsche: Va-Va-Vroomupdated: Mon Apr 03 2000 00:01:00
Some advice to innocent drivers worldwide: Be very, very afraid. Porsche, the platinum standard of sports cars, has just done something frightening. It has made its latest fire-breathing flagship, ...
What's wrong with this picture? Balmy Southern California day, deserted, twisty canyon roads, and a high-style 400-horsepower European roadster. Not much--except the $129,000 price tag attached to ...
There can be only one explanation for all the luxury vehicles on display at this fall's Frankfurt Auto Show: Carmakers took a look at this year's amazing sales figures and lost their minds. True, t...
I just bought a car. It wasn't easy. Buying a car is about a lot more than buying a car. Of course, it's also about buying a car. Both parts are tough. But I won, all the way around, no thanks to t...
Perhaps you'll think me cruel, although I was only trying to be kind. Usually I write about cars far in advance of their on-sale date so that you get the earliest possible glimpse--hear the engine,...
When your only business objective is to create cars with world-class power and drop-dead looks, life is, as they say, beautiful. But when you also have to consistently outperform your previous work...
Look, I'm hardly one to oppose dropping greenbacks, but if someone handed me a couple of million dollars (all right, $1.8 million, to be precise) and told me to go spend it all at one car dealershi...
My Italian hosts, at least as susceptible to car lust as any other full-blooded Europeans, had parked my borrowed Mercedes-Benz E55 right by the hotel's front door. So much for my theory that the s...
Don't let the marching bands and busty, bathing-suited hood ornaments fool you: The legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans is not your average boys-and-their-toys auto race. It is serious--and potentially r...
Dearly beloved, we are gathered today in these pages to say farewell to perhaps the greatest and most enduring sports car of our time, the air-cooled Porsche 911--a car worshipped and coveted--the ...
Mutual fund manager Bob Rodriguez knows all about dangerous curves, abrupt twists and turns, and heart-stopping moves that must be made in a nanosecond. Luckily for his investors, Rodriguez takes h...
In a bout of patriotism on the eve of Fourth of July fireworks and flag flapping, I test-drove the new Corvette C5. In 44 years of production, Chevrolet has sold roughly 1.1 million Corvettes; the ...
To: Santa (s_claus@hohoho.com) Fr: Sue (s_zesiger@fortunemail.com) Re: Request for suggestions on perfect automotive gift for good girls and boys
"If you're squeamish, sensible, or simply lack automotive lust, do not read on. In the name of journalism, I hit the road last week to test the mettle and metal of the new breed of high-performance...
What, you didn't buy that Porsche in the everything-to-excess Eighties? Too bad -- you really missed a bargain. A Porsche 911 Carrera coupe used to cost less than the average U.S. household's annua...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Jul 12 1993 00:01:00
SECURE CORDLESS PHONE The threat of eavesdropping worries many telecommunications users, from CEOs to Princess Di. Now you can keep conversations secure in your own backyard with the Escort 9000 fr...
Until now, cars with pricetags over $100,000 have had the aura of collector's items. Superluxury automakers -- Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and their ilk -- count annual production in the hun...
Speedier than a Porsche 911, costlier than a Ferrari Testarossa. It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a Vector W2 TwinTurbo, which does more than 200 mph. Basic sticker price: $180,000. Gerald Wiege...
IN THE PAST two years, the upscale auto business has turned upside down. Lincoln has shed its me-too look by rolling out distinct models that appeal to ^ a new set of buyers. After years of decline...
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