Porsche Finally Cracks the Petit Le Mans Overall Win

Porsche has finally added an overall Petit Le Mans victory to its already enormous endurance racing CV, with the No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 taking the honours at Road Atlanta. Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Australian Matt Campbell survived a chaotic 10 hour race to take the chequered flag just 1.205 seconds (!) ahead […]

Porsche Marks 75 Years of Motorsport With a Junior-Sized Electric 550 Spyder

How do you celebrate 75 years of motorsport without building another racing car? For Porsche, the answer is a smaller one! The Porsche 550 J is an officially licensed, electric version of the 550 Spyder at roughly four fifths scale, with British firm Hedley Studios building each one by hand. The J stands for Junior. […]

Cardle of the Day – Sunday 5 July 2026

Cardle of the Day: Sunday's Puzzle Served Up a Proper Eighties Icon

Five clues, one legendary turbocharged sports car, and a reminder of why the Eighties produced some of the most interesting machinery to ever leave Stuttgart.

Porsche donates modified Cayenne to The Black Mambas project to protect rhinos

Not every Porsche story is about lap times or power figures. This one’s about a Cayenne that’s about to spend its life deep the African bush, and doing genuinely important work while it’s at it. Read on. Porsche South Africa has donated a heavily modified second-generation Cayenne to The Black Mambas, the world’s first all […]

Porsche 963 RSP – Impractical but impressive

Porsche 963 RSP - Impractical but impressive

Porsche has let its inner mad scientist out of the Weissach basement and into the wild—on actual public roads, no less. Meet the Porsche 963 RSP: an unhinged, one-off hypercar love letter that mashes up history, hubris, and horsepower into a breathtaking, road-legal (well, sort of) alien—from the IMSA- and WEC-conquering 963, reimagined with the […]

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