Porsche’s ‘accidental’ turbo breakthrough

I remember an early 1978 argument over the chassis of the RS10 and the use of the engine,” said Renault Formula 1 team driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille. “Whether to put a twin turbo in it and modify the c

THERE ARE FEW Porsches that go more unsung than the 968. As the final incarnation of the transaxle lineage, it’s an incredibly well-sorted drivers’ car that was known for out-handling the 911 when it

The 1920s were not easy years in Germany. World War One had left the country impoverished and economic inflation was rife. It was a time of consolidation, as the nation’s industrialists analysed the s

Producing a large-format and premium-priced book about a single car is never an easy task, however meritorious the subject. Porter Press has plenty of experience with this genre, however, and the team

Monterey Car Week culminated with its traditional closer on 17 August, as the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance crowned a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo as its Best of Show. What is

For years, some of the more committed car makers had been quietly logging Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times for internal benchmarking and the odd press release. But then in 2008, Porsche suggested Ni