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We begin this month’s issue with the announcement of a new, special edition Targa, the second such model for the 992 generation. Say hello to the ‘911 Edition 50Y Porsche Design’, released to celebrate the golden jubilee of the design agency of Butzi

An impressive new dawn has arrived for Singer Vehicle Design and its classic restoration programme. As Total 911 went to press, news broke that the California company’s naturally aspirated, 4.0-litre flat sixes – modified versions of original Porsche

Eberhard Mahle is a name that many Total 911 readers will be familiar with – not only through the Porsche racing annals, but also because Mahle GmbH has been supplying high-performance pistons to Porsche vehicles for 70 years. The company was founded

Taking over from the My Porsche Essentials, Connect App and Car Connect App is a new digital platform for Porsche owners encompassing all three. The My Porsche app offers Porsche digital services direct to customer smartphones and will combine the fu

Porsche Cars Great Britain saw a successful year of sales in 2021, delivering a total of 14,017 cars in the UK and Ireland. Despite obvious global challenges, Porsche sold a record number of cars worldwide in 2021, some 301,915 vehicles in total. Thi

Porsche has set its sights on racetrack glory this year, with a pair of 911 RSRs entering the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). A slightly revised driver line-up will feature over the championship’s six races. Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz

Dear Sir, I have just read your issue which “celebrates the merits of stick shift” or what I would call manual gearboxes [Total 911 issue 209]. I was, at last, enjoyed to see this form of gearbox referred to as an “engagement” with the art of drivin

We’re entering the third year where the world’s still coming to terms with a global pandemic. Predicting what’s going to happen next is, arguably, a fool’s errand. What is certain though is that people are still buying cars, taking the attitude of ‘w

We begin with coffee in Starbucks off Highway I-10 at Desert Hills Premium Outlets, Palm Springs. It’s out of necessity rather than choice – I’m here for the wi-fi, not the burnt, bitter, black coffee. Like many others whose names are shouted out by

The principle of supercharging, either mechanically or using turbines, goes back to the early years of automobile engineering. Between the wars, forced induction was usually achieved by a mechanical supercharger running off the crankshaft. Dr Porsche

If you’re reading this, then it’s likely you already own a 911 and will have a good idea of their capability. You may also have purchased a copy of this fine magazine if you’re considering buying one. For anyone venturing into sports car ownership, a

Full specs, ratings and market values of every Porsche 911 model can be found beginning on page 76 Looking for a new 911? The classifieds from our independent specialist partners are the first place you should start your search Get the very best fr

911s in the data file are organised in rows according to release date, beginning with the very first model in 1964. Many models were available in Coupe, Targa and Cabriolet forms, with the option of automatic transmission. Here, data has been provide

The PDK double-clutch automatic gearbox is so good, the decision between manual or automatic can be quite a dilemma for 911s from 997.2 onwards. But where does that leave models that have the previous incarnation of automatic technology, the Tiptroni

Say ‘Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe’ to most people and they’ll probably hand you a lifetime Scrabble ban. Mention it to the casual Porsche fan and they might know the PDK double-clutch gearbox made its production debut in 2008, with the 997-generat

The 964 model, introduced in 1988, may have given the appearance that little had changed over the previous G-series model. In fact that was partly true for the design, which maintained the existing shape and gave it a clean up, smoothing bumpers, and

The inside story on Singer Vehicle Design’s latest development Porsche’s head of special projects talks to Total 911 Everything you need to know about the fearsome ‘widow maker’ 996 Full story on the 964 Rennsport destined only for the US market

There were sighs of relief from Porsche enthusiasts when in 1990 the company finally released its new 911 Turbo. Missing from the original launch of the 964 C4 in 1988, the Turbo’s failure to appear at the presentation of the 964 C2 a year later had

In the modern era (as opposed to the early years when it appeared on the 904, and later as a version of the 924) Porsche brought back the GTS badge fleetingly on the run-out 997, giving an intriguing view, or preview, of what looked suspiciously like

Valentin Schäffer started as an engine mechanic with Porsche in 1955, aged just 24 years. The Hungarian-born technician quickly showed an aptitude for hard work and a desire to solve problems – attributes that cemented his future not only with the co

The GTS, of course, is already handsomely specified, but even so Porsche left quite a shopping list of possible extras, top of which is the £2,900 PDK, which three-quarters of buyers specified. Other options were the Sport chassis combined with the A