Porsche Design opens new flagship store in SoHo

Filed under: Porsche, Design/Style

Take a flight overseas and you may happen upon a Porsche Design store in an airport somewhere. That’s because, while the automaker’s product-design division has dozens of locations around the world, few of them are in the United States for a brand that is typically European in its focus. But all that’s [...]

Porsche Panamera facelift comes into view

Filed under: Performance, Etc., Europe, Hatchback, Porsche, Design/Style, Luxury

Porsche is busily readying a facelift for the Porsche Panamera, and our elite squad of spy photographers recently clicked a few images of the vehicle as it underwent winter testing. Details are scarce as to what, if any changes we can expect from the vehicle mechanically, but [...]

2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet brings warm weather to Detroit [w/video]

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Convertible, Performance, Porsche, Design/Style, Luxury

The Motor City has been blessed with unseasonably warm weather and mostly clear skies this week, so consider it fortuitous that Porsche has gifted the Detroit Auto Show with the global premiere of its 911 Carrera Cabriolet.
This topless 911 carries with it a unique top mechanism [...]

Porsche shows plans for new N.A. headquarters

Filed under: Porsche, Design/Style

In two years a phoenix Porsche will rise from the ashes rubble of the former Ford Taurus plant. A plot of land in Hapeville, Georgia near the Atlanta airport was once the site where Taurus sedans and their Mercury Sable twins were made until 2006. Torn down in 2008, the land was [...]

Yes, Porsche Design has made its own Blackberry

Filed under: Technology, Porsche, Design/Style, Infotainment

While its styling has refined over successive generations, you don’t buy a Porsche for how it looks. You buy one for how it works. And the same could be said of a BlackBerry. The favorite communications tool of businesspeople worldwide and a number of private consumers as well, the BlackBerry [...]

Porsche Design raises the bar with Johnnie Walker Blue Label Collection

Filed under: Etc., Porsche, Design/Style

It’s not often that cars and whiskey cross paths on these pages, but it does happen. One distillery manager began charging his EV off of spent barley. Another blended special bottles for Formula One drivers. Now Porsche Design has teamed with Johnnie Walker for the exclusive scotch packages you see here.
The [...]

Where some see the hood of a Porsche 911 GT2, others see a canvas

Filed under: Europe, Porsche, Design/Style

The difference between an artist and any other person is not about skill or ability to wield whatever instruments are required to render their work, it’s about how an artist perceives things around them. So while most of us may look at, say, the front hood of a Porsche and see [...]

2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Porsche, New Car Reviews
The Best Everyday 911 You Can Buy, Today

Twenty-two. That’s how many Porsche 911 variants are available right now. And by this time next year, they’ll all be obsolete. But this one – the 2011 Porsche 911 GTS – is the pick of the litter. It’s the definition of [...]

What does “im CAD Hat’s Passt” mean and why is it on the Porsche 918 RSR?

Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Videos, Porsche, Luxury, Racing

On my way back from the Quail at this year’s festivities in Monterey, I spied a few colleagues milling around the Porsche 918 RSR. The intrepid JF Musial – Porsche’s go-to guy for video – was doing a shoot of the hybrid racer and he [...]

Porsche Design reinvents the Dashboard watch

Filed under: Etc., Porsche, Design/Style

There are many elements that go into making a Porsche a Porsche, and one of them is the minimalist dashboard. Ten years ago, Porsche Design, the company’s Austrian product design division, took its cues from a 911’s instrument cluster and designed a wristwatch after it. And now they’ve updated the design [...]

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