As you may know Mini challenged Porsche to a race at Road Atlanta. Mini made sure to use an autocross track to ensure that they would have a better chance to win. What they failed to think about was that the rear engine in the 911 gave it a huge traction advantage (read the March 2010 issue of GT Porsche Purely, where they pit a 911 Carrera against a Cayman S on a real track and you can read about the traction advantage).
Below you can watch as the 911 beats the Mini by a full two seconds (a huge amount of time in a race). Just think how the 911 could beat the Mini on a real track.
The Porsche Guys is proud to announce the launch of The Porsche Guys Club.
The Porsche Guys Club is a 100% free on-line Porsche auto club. Use the site to let others know of your Porsche related news/events or just to keep in touch with other Porsche enthusiasts. The hope is that this will encourage more Porsche owners to get to know other Porsche owners with similar interests.
You don’t even have to own a Porsche to join the club (you just have to want one).
Recently, the family sedan had the engine blow up (a rod broke in two and did quite a bit of internal damage). Since the car has been in the shop we have had to use one of our other cars. So, we could either use our 1959 VW Type I (a.k.a. Bug) or the 1983 Porsche 944. Our first choice was the 1959 Bug, but the car is missing the front driver side fender (the part is being painted), so we can’t exactly drive it in the current condition.
This left us with using the 1983 Porsche 944 as our family car. My first thought was how is this going to work? Will I even be able to get our two year old son’s car seat into the back seat?
Amazingly, his car seat fit like a glove in the back seat and my 5 month pregnant wife has plenty of room in the front seat. We have been using the car as the family car for the last three weeks and it has been able to haul groceries with plenty of room. The Porsche 944 is a very versatile car that, at least for us, can work as a family cruiser or a lively sports car.
As you can see from the photo below my son is very happy with riding in the new car. In fact, I don’t think he wants our normal family sedan to get repaired (he is already a Porsche man).
A very interesting forum thread that has been posted is a question of if you are covered by standard automobile insurance at an autocross event. The thread answer’s the question with information about coverage options. You can view the thread here.
