The place for Porsches

Seen downtown S.B. behind an investment firm (where else) as I was arriving on a Metro Bus to shop for Groceries earlier this morning.
Monterey Rally stickers imply it was recently there for the Concours etc.

The auctioneer's accent made the number indiscernible.

Found an interesting side by side. Two 911s from the same era. One wide body, one standard body.

The 991-Generation Porsche 911 Just Ended Production
This Speedster is the last of the 991s. We reflect on this incredibly important generation of 911.

With the production of one last 911 Speedster, Porsche officially completed production of the 991-generation 911. Its successor, the 992, already started production. Now that Porsche has finished making the special editions of the old car, there's room to start expanding the 992 lineup.

www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a30295550/porsche-991-production-ends/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_rdt&utm_medium=email&date=122119&utm_campaign=nl18925213&src=nl

Porsche's Flat-Six-Powered Boxster and Cayman GTS are a Return to Form
By replacing the turbocharged flat-four with a 394-hp naturally aspirated flat-six, the new GTS 4.0 models bring back some Porsche magic that had been lost.

It would be easy to fill pages with moon-eyed poetry praising the intoxicating zing of the new 718 GTS's 4.0-liter flat-six engine. Oh, the noises it makes hunting down the glory of 7800 rpm, all the while electrifying scalps, tingling spines, and purpling prose.

Yet perhaps the most telling change over its four-cylinder turbocharged predecessor is a much smaller one and the first thing you notice when you start the car: The sewing-machine idle of the flat-four—that busy, not-quite-full-enough ticking reminiscent of an air-cooled Volks­wagen Beetle—is gone. Fired up, the GTS 4.0 makes the full mechanical chatter that comes from having 50 percent more cylinders and valves. They sound like proper Porsches again.

www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30955079/2020-porsche-boxster-cayman-gts-drive/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_cdb&utm_medium=email&date=021820&utm_campaign=nl19429396

2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S: First Drive
Porsche's most powerful, quickest, and heaviest 911 Turbo ever is beyond fast. But does it distance itself enough from the turbocharged Carrera models to matter?

In our most recent Performance Car of the Year test, the staff of this publication crowned the Hyundai Veloster N the winner. My personal ranking, however, put Korea’s best three (and a half) door hatchback in second place, behind the Porsche 992 Carrera S, a vehicle whose only real flaw is that it costs more money than I have: around $130,000 for that test, loaded up with stuff.

Travis Okulski, our editor-in-chief, was able to lap the 992 Carrera S around Thunderhill about a second quicker than I could. We can probably assume Ross Bentley–an R&T contributor, driver coach, and the author of Speed Secrets–could go even quicker, and today’s best racing talents could probably shave more time. The point? Porsche’s middle-of-the-road sports car is already demonstrably faster than me, someone who spends a lot of time on racetracks and in sports cars.

Had the launch of the all-new 992 Turbo S gone as scheduled, Porsche probably would have reminded me of this by having Hurley Haywood, someone equally decorated, or German, guide lead/follow sessions at Laguna Seca in, say, a Macan, while I sweated bullets trying to keep up in a car with a 300 horsepower advantage. Thanks to the coronavirus, I wasn’t awarded the privilege of being shamed on track. Instead, on a rainy morning in March, Porsche awarded yours truly six hours all to myself in a car that won’t be out for a long time. Six hours is a tough amount of time; enough to try to get everything in that you could do with the car, but not enough time that you can just let opportunities come to you.
www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/first-drives/a32067148/2021-porsche-911-turbo-s-first-drive/?source=nl