Mad About Cars

The eve of the Shanghai Auto Show and Porsche are set to unveil their latest entrant into the luxury Sedan market. Sunday night saw the importance of the introduction to the Chinese auto market and the first time they have ventured outside Europe and North America.

As a result, Porsche sales in China have risen 10 percent in the last month, and exceeded sales in America for the third month running – making China the World’s biggest ‘single-country’ market. This had attracted many other automakers from around the globe pay particular attention to the Chinese Market. A range of models are now flooding in on their way to be introduced here now.

Europe’s largest car manufacturer has been taken over – Yes, VolksWagen! And by who? You’d never guess? Porsche!!!!

We ask why? Why would this small run family business want a stake in a company like VW? Well, it must bedue to VW’s manufacturing capabilities and technological know-how?

Porsche is currently occupying roughly 50% of the shares in VolksWagen but are looking to increase that to 75% having full financial control. Not bad going considering VW is one of largest companies in the world.

The only bad news for Porsche is that oddly, VW own shares in truck maker ‘Scania’ which Porsche will have to take over says the Sweedish Law, but they are not interested at all, and will therefore only put in a minimum bid, and who blames them!

Yes, its good news from Porsche! They will be showing the brand new new 911 GT3 at the Geneva show this March. We rate the current car as one of the greatest ever made, so the thought of a sparkly, new, updated version has got us running around the office like excited spaniels!!!!

OK, so it looks pretty similar to the last one and that’s because it is still a 997 variant. But who cares?!
Besides, it’s what’s underneath that counts.

Porsche has given this car a good seeing-to, hopefully making a great machine even greater, if thats at all possible!

It has 425bhp, that’s 20bhp over the last car, while the engine has been beefed up by 200cc to 3.8-litres!

And it now also has Porsche’s VarioCam system working away on the exhaust camshaft timings, optimising the torque / power / usability and emissions balance. Or so the boffins tell us?

All that science translates to a 0-62mph time of 4.1 seconds! and a top speed 194mph!
And for the first time on a GT3, you’ll be able to turn the traction off in stages – ‘properly off’ is the correct mode… Just make sure you’re some sort of magnificent driving God before you go trying that!

It’s also much stiffer than the last car, some aero tweaks have helped eek out more performance too. There are also bigger brakes, which will be useful before corners, if you want to keep your £81,914 Porsche in one piece!

There’s only one thing to say to all of that……..

Yes Please!!!!!