Category: Porsche

Porsche has issued a press statement confirming its new SUV, the Cajun, will be built at their Leipzig factory. The plant first came to life in 2002 building the Cayenne. In 2009, following improvements to the facility, the Panamera was added to its roster.

A minimum of 1000 jobs are expected to be created by Porsche with the introduction of the Cajun. Upgrading of the Leipzig plant in anticipation of the “efficient and agile” SUV will commence later this year.

“During the production of the Cayenne and the Panamera, our Leipzig plant has impressively proved that it can produce premium vehicles of highest quality,” said Matthias Müller, chairman of the Porsche AG board of management. “The decision in favour of this location is proof of our trust in the skills and qualifications of our Leipzig associates, and at the same time another contribution to the economic advancement of the region.”

US-based website Kilometer Magazine brings us some excellent spy shots of what appears to be the next-gen Porsche 911 Turbo. Earlier 911 test mules have been adorned with Turbo-style side intake stickers—they can’t fool us, the intakes on this prototype are the real deal.

The front end looks similar to the previous 911 Turbo and continues the evolutionary approach so expected from Porsche. At the back it appears Porsche could be offering the new Turbo with a retractable style spolier. Either that, or they’re just leaving the usual Turbo spoiler off to mess with us during the development phase.

[Source: Kilometer Magazine]

Porsche has just commenced deliveries of the awesome 911 GT2 RS to its North American customers. There were 20 cars waiting for their owners at the El Toro airfield in California. That’s a combined total of 12,400hp, or around 9,300kW.

They’re some pretty big numbers, which sit well alongside the 80,000 engineering hours and almost 700,000kms of testing undertaken by Porsche during the development of “The Beast”, their most powerful road car to date.

Andreas Preuninger, High Performance Cars manager, was on hand to file this video interview. It’s compelling viewing, too, not because of the driving footage displayed, but more for what he says.

Perhaps there is now only one thing left for Porsche to do with the GT2 RS; release video footage of their claimed 7:18 Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time set by Walter Röhrl.

The Rennlist forum is a great knowledge-base for all things Porsche. It can also be a great source for some accurate inside info. We can’t vouch for the accuracy of the following info, but if correct it appears the next Porsche 911 GT3 could change the game somewhat, insofar as the pure GT3 template is concerned.

Here’s a list of expected features of the 991 GT3 as posted by “rosenbergendo”, a current GT3 owner who claims to have secured the info from a senior Porsche motorsport employee at the recent Daytona 24 hour race:

• 4.0 litre motor with 480hp (45hp more than 3.8 litre in current GT3).
• Engine to be mounted further forward, improving chassis balance and essentially making this a mid-engine car in everything but name.
• Double clutch PDK transmission available as an option, to be known as PDK-S.
• Expected weight loss of 80-90kg over current model.
• No hybrid technology will be sourced from GT3 R Hybrid.

The PDK and engine placement info will be sure to upset the purest of pure Porsche GT3 nuts. That’s if they have managed to overcome the loss of the GT1-based “Mezger” engine block.

[via GTspirit]