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50 Years Later – Apollo 16 Astronaut Compares Porsche Taycan to Lunar Rover Vehicle

Where can you find an $8M electric vehicle with a dead battery?

Charles “Charlie” Duke (no relation to Charles Charlie Charles of the famous Charles brothers) is an American hero and knows where to find an $8M dollar electric vehicle with a dead battery. Charlie was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 16 and the tenth person to walk on the moon. He is also one of only 6 people to ever experienced driving an all-electric vehicle in another world.

Since then, Charlie has never driven an electric vehicle on any other planet including this one. So, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of driving Lunar Roving Vehicles on the moon’s surface, Charlie drove the Taycan on planet earth. Watch how he gets on and read the truly amazing story of Charlie and the LRV on the moon. Read Full Article »

Porsche North America Reports Sales Volume for 2020 – Not Many Suprises

Reading Between the Lines of a Crazy Pandemic Sales Year

2020 was certainly a wild ride from many perspectives and the business climate was generally disrupted throughout the country. You therefore, don’t need to be a rocket scientist to predict lower sales results from most enterprises. Having said that, Porsche posted results that actually are not too shabby and in fact, still show growth when compared to 2018.

Yes, overall sales declined by a little over 4000 cars, but volume held up pretty well considering the obscure environment or “new normal” that we find ourselves in. Don’t worry though, uncle Joe and the blue cavalry will sort it all out real soon and everything will be back to…well, different. So what do the sales numbers really tell us? Read Full Article »

Porsche is now an SUV Manufacturer with a Legendary Sports Car Pedigree

53 Years and a Million Reasons Why This Was Such a Good Idea

Porsche recently crossed an important milestone – the 1 millionth Porsche Cayenne rolled off the production line and was delivered to a smiling customer in Germany. Not bad for a sports car company that took the gamble to start the design and production work for an SUV style vehicle in the late 1990’s – that’s when most of us were pondering the Y2K problem!

It took Porsche 53 years to produce 1 million 911 coupes. The Cayenne has surpassed that number in a brief 18 years and looks easily set to overtake the all-time 911 production numbers. Along with its SUV partner, the Macan, the Cayenne has changed the Porsche dynamic and stolen the show. Read Full Article »

Porsche Technical Q & A – October 2020

Porsche Technical Q & A – Highlights of the Most Recent Technical Questions We’ve Answered – Some, No One Knows the Answer to Yet!

We receive thousands of visits every month to our common problems pages. We encourage you to contact us if you don’t find the answer to your particular issue and we do our best to try to find a solution.

We receive hundreds of questions every month in this way and we try to gather them together to identify any trends. The type of question varies dramatically from what appears to be design issues on new cars, to very unusual mechanical behavior. Here are some of the issues that have come up most recently.

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Porsche Extends Transfer Case Warranty

Good News for Cayenne and Macan Owners – Porsche Has Extended the Warranty Period on Your Transfer Case.

Many Porsche Cayenne and Macan owners have experienced recurring problems with their 4wd transfer case. We have the issues and the symptoms, such as vibrations under acceleration, highlighted in our common problems section.

Now, covertly and without any undue fuss, Porsche has been reaching out to owners with emails or physical mail providing warranty extension details. Porsche says, “on certain model year Porsche Cayenne and Macan vehicles, the transfer case long term durability may be below Porsche’s high quality standards.”

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Porsche Maintenance Plan – Is it worth it?

Porsche Maintenance Plan for New Cars – Is it Worth Paying for Maintenance Upfront and What Do You Get for Your Money?

Porsche offers the optional prepaid ‘Scheduled Maintenance Plan’ for its new vehicles. There were changes to the plan more recently, as all new cars now include a complimentary first annual or 10K mile service. Some of these maintenance plans on offer, can run into multiple thousands of dollars.

So, what do you get for your money if you decide to pay for maintenance up front and what are the benefits? We remove the smoke and mirrors to give you a better look at what is actually going on here. No Refunds! Read Full Article »

Alarm Bells are Ringing at Tesla

She’s Not Pretty, But She Goes Like the Clappers…

Alarm bells have been ringing at Tesla for a while now – I think they are just about to experience the full rope-a-dope treatment.

While Tesla dances around the ring and throws a few punches, everyone else has sat back on the ropes and taken it. Now, here comes a heavyweight off the ropes with a counter attack and some huge brand loyalty punches. To save the planet, you can keep your Tesla, I want a Porsche.

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Taycan Pricing – You’ll need $150K to start this game

Taycan Pricing – You’ll need $150K to start this game!

Seems like the all new electric car is going to be somewhere between $150K and north of $200K. Interestingly, the high end model will likely be called a turbo, although it isn’t.

I guess once you start using the word turbo, it’s difficult to put it down and there is likely a whole collection of turbo badges lying around somewhere just waiting to be used.

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Hybrid 911 – Go Go Go or Gas Saver?

Porsche 911 Hybrid – Go Go Go or Gas Saver?

A hybrid Porsche 911 – it’s quite the puzzler, isn’t it? What would you do with the iconic sports car – make it the planet saving green play toy or have more power on tap at the press of a button like a Formula 1 car?

There is talk of an all electric mode – this suggests you’ll be pottering around the streets of a busy city in a 911 saving the planet as you go. However, with the all electric mode comes talk of no-plug in ability – uh oh, you’ll have to fire up the gas engine!

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