Excerpt from recent article by Jim Millick…2011 Treffen Black Forest Back in the 1950s, Porsche Club of America members began making treks to Germany to visit the factory and see Porsches in their native habitat, calling it a “Tref- fen,” or get-together, in German… …Starting in 1976, native Austrian and PORSCHE fan Peter Sontag restarted [...]
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Porsche has ‘overwhelming’ orders for $119,000 revamped 911 Andreas Cremer/ Bloomberg News December 01. 2011 Porsche AG said it has received “overwhelming” orders in Germany for the revamped 911 sports car two days before the 88,000-euro ($119,000) model goes on sale in Europe. Porsche will have a “particularly strong rush” for the seventh-generation 911 at [...]
Read More...… The two companies have been working on a full-blown merger since 2009, when Porsche failed in its attempt to take over VW… Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) – Excerpt: Volkswagen AG’s two-year effort to merge with Porsche SE is on the brink of being scrapped as legal tangles and taxes confound ambitions to unite Ferdinand [...]
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TOP GEAR Review: This must be the easiest sports car in the world to drive. …it’s clear that the new 911 Carrera S is no slow-burn, hard-to-fathom, funny handshake machine…it fits the driver perfectly…and within seconds you feel like you’ve just pulled on a second skin… …All things considered – its price, its performance, its [...]
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