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Fake Carrera GT Is Still Too Nice For Teenage Drivers

What's better than handing the keys to your Porsche Carrera GT to your kid and having him destroy it? How about giving him this Chinese knockoff version he can wreck all day long at a fraction of the price? Brilliant! Though not cheap, with a 'buy it now' price of $80 grand, this Carrera actually started life as a Boxster, got put in the taffy puller and stretched 12 inches front and back, and then had a new body dropped on top. Keen eyes render it obvious as a poseur, but it's actually a pretty good fake. Better than most of the Fierarris we've seen, anyway.

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3:40 PM on Mon Jul 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
7,513 views, 56 comments

Latest by Collins1: The boxster is good and the carrera Gt is good. This isn't stupid at all. It's genius. more »

accidents

Porsche Carrera GT Suffers Death By Teenager

This one comes to us from the offices of intrepid commenter Drachen, who chatted up the driver of this flatbed after seeing its cargo — the remains of a Porsche Carrera GT in an Atlanta-area parking lot. According to the driver, he'd just pulled an all-nighter driving from Miami to Atlanta to deliver the car to the shipping docks so it could be crated and sent back to Germany. Seems the car was destroyed at the hands of — you guessed it — a teenager, and on prom night, no less.

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1:30 PM on Mon Jul 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
15,703 views, 88 comments

Latest by Lawrence: Fools and their money are soon parted. more »

2009 porsche 911

2009 Porsche 911 Carrera 4: AWD Bruce

For 2009, the entire Porsche 911 Carrera lineup has been given a refresh, and now we've got the details and first shots of the all-wheel-drive 911 Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S models. Thanks to direct-injection, the 3.6-liter flat-six in the Carrera 4 now makes 345 HP, and the 3.8-liter unit in the Carrera 4S makes a Bruce-tastic 385 HP. But the first thing you likely noticed was the new reflecto' bar bridging the LED rear lights that brings to mind the old air-cooled 911. All the other visual changes carry over from the rear-wheel-drive models, though as usual, the all-wheel-drive models have a slightly (just 1.73") wider stance. That's pretty precise, but hey, they're Germans. Check out all the uber-precise details in the press release below the jump.
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1:00 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Mark Arnold
4,187 views, 27 comments

Latest by my favorite car is a motorcycle: @Mike, @smokyburnout: good point, few of us will ever be in front of a Carrera 4. Plus, if more »

hoon of the day

Porsche Carrera GT Drifts Right 'Round Dubai Roundabout

Dubai is no longer just a quaint desert outpost where car thieves merely steal police BMWs. Nope, the lack of proper law enforcement oversight is now showing up in more edge-of-the-seat ways. Because although taking a Porsche Carrera GT out for donuts and making sideways laps around a roundabout seems like a pretty good way to thrash a V10-powered Stuttgart supercar, it probably doesn't help so much with the law and order. [via autogespot]

4:00 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Mark Arnold
9,845 views, 57 comments

Latest by hootjigga: Let's say, a barrel of oil per tire? more »

2009 porsche 911

2009 Porsche 911 Faster Around The 'Ring, Still Not As Fast As The GT-R

The 2009 Porsche 911 is a touch faster than the 2008 version around the 'Ring, posting a 7:58 in Carrera S trim. This is also faster than a Cadillac CTS-V (barely) but still much slower than the Nissan GT-R dry time of 7:29. That's gotta hurt. Home turf, even. Though we doubt this will dissuade the dentists and accountants who get off on being able to correct their friends. "Porsh-uh, Sally, Porsch-uh."

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10:20 AM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,224 views, 40 comments

Latest by ShantJ: WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!????? Damn it Porsche! Why must you offer a damn automatic???!!! I never tought Porsche would succumb and fall down more »

2009 porsche 911

2009 Porsche 911 Revealed With Direct Injection, Dual-Clutch

Not only do we get news this morning of a whole host of upgrades for the 2009 Porsche 911 lineup, we now finally get a look at the facelift that goes along with 'em. Just as we saw in the leaked information from last month, the newly refreshed Porsches get power bumps across the range, thanks to a direct injection system it'll get 20 HP more in the regular old 911 (345 HP) and 30 HP in the Carrera S (385 HP). To go along with that added grunt, the cars get the new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission able to shift itself without removing power from the wheels — whoa. It seems you can teach an old Bruce a new trick. Full press release after the jump.

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8:18 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
8,793 views, 65 comments

Latest by hockyis1: Having spent countless hours on Hemmings.com, Autotrader.com, and Ebay.com looking at used 911's - I can certainly say there is more »

volkswagen caddy carrera

VW Caddy Carrera Cup Edition: A Diesel Porsche Van?

When is a Carrera not a Porsche? When it's this VW Caddy Van Carrera Cup Edition, a special model evidently designed to be either a support vehicle for Porsche gentlemen racers, or a wanna-be racer for European handymen. We're not exactly sure if this has anything to do with Porsche and VW's on-again, off-again relationship, but the Caddy panel van has been decked out just like a 911 GT3 RS. Though you can only buy it in the land of meatballs, gummy fish and strangely hypnotic chefs — Sweden. So what goods does this track day van pack under the hood?
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11:00 AM on Fri May 30 2008
By Mark Arnold
3,899 views, 23 comments

Latest by daily dwayne: might be time to have some kids, i'd drive to soccer practice in that. more »

porsche carrera gt

Porsche Carrera GT Eats It While Driving Onto Trailer

Here we find a perfect example as to why using those 2x8's you've got lying around behind the shed to load a half million dollar Porsche Carrera GT is a bad idea. We're not positive of the categorization here, but "epic fail" might be as close as we can get for everybody involved in setting up this cringe-worthy scenario. You can almost hear the carbon fiber chassis going all crunchy right at the end. Ouch. [VideoMax (NSFW banner ads)]

4:00 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
15,061 views, 76 comments

Latest by toyotaboy: I think that could have been avoided by a couple guys stepping on the end of the planks. friction more »

top gear

New Episode Of Top Gear Airs, Features Audi R8 Versus Porsche 911 Carrera 2S


Got a case of the Mondays? Well, not anymore you don't, because we've got the highlight of the second episode of season ten of the world's greatest driving show, Top Gear. The show aired live on the Beeb last night and in addition to Jeremy, Richard and James running their second attempt at building amphibious cars (more on that later), two of the boys ran a couple of German speed demons around the Top Gear track — Clarkson, teasing us with the Audi R8, and Hammond dropping the hammer on a Porsche 911 Carrera 2S. While it ends up being the 911 working over the R8 on the half-mile straight-line, the track course proves a bit more challenging. Which car ends up making it around the track fastest? We'll let the Stig decide.

11:15 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Ray Wert
8,855 views, 32 comments

Latest by NicoleCharon: Comment on New Strange, that was not the song used in the actual show that aired. Does anyone now the name more »

tuners

Gemballa Mirage GT, Now with Glitter

Gemballa's Mirage GT is just the thing for the Shikh who has everything. Seriously, everything. And that includes holdings in a glitter factory on the Ivory Coast. The paint on this particular specimen, one of 25 to be produced, either illustrates the possibilities for customization Gemballa offers, or reminds us that we should have bought that Meyers Manx dune buggy back in '74. More »

9:58 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Mike Spinelli
1,512 views, 15 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: "Extravagant glitter finish" -- like on a bass boat? more »