Porsche new super will be launched in April 2011

Porsche New Super Car

There are a slew of new models that Porsche has in line for the New Year. They have announced the beginning of their show to be held at the American International Auto Show in Detroit which is scheduled from January 10 to 23. Their website www.porsche.com/detroit would also display these events live as per their announcement. No details have been forthcoming from the company on these cars but the first one to debut at the Detroit show would be a supercar with a twin-turbo engine delivering over 600 hp as per German Magazine AutoBild.
The car is to be an all wheel drive model and light by weight. This has been achieved by using carbon fiber. The acceleration factor of the car reads 0 to 100 kmph that is 62 mph in less than 4 seconds. Top speed of the car is listed at 300 kmph or 186 mph. There is also the possibility of Porsche coming out with their 918 Spyder concept at the same Detroit show.

Porsche Cayenne S speedHYBRID 450

Porsche Cayenne S speedHYBRID 450


speedART speedHYBRID 450

The latest innovation of the Porsche Tuner speedART from Rutesheim near Stuttgart is called speedHYBRID 450 which is based on the new Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid. Please find attached an overview on the Tuning activities done by speedART:

Porsche officially working on a smaller SUV

Porsche is currently working on a fifth model on their line-up, a smaller SUV placed under the current Cayenne. The new model will join the current Boxster, 911, Cayenne, and Panamera model and, according to a company insider, "with the new model, Porsche will open up a market in which until now only Mercedes and BMW were active."

The arrival of a new model line is a huge investment, but so was the Cayenne that in the end grew production from 50,000 to 92,000 units per year. The new model will be based on the Audi Q5 and the upcoming Q3. Previous rumors said it would be called Roxster.

The "Roxster" will be a luxury car with sporty handling characteristics and high achievement. Sportier than the current Cayenne, it will feature muscular line contours, LED headlamps, and taillights. Most likely the future model will be offered with V6 and V8 engines, with output ranging from 280 to 500 HP for a possible Turbo version.

2011 Porsche Panamera V6

911 addicts hate the Panamera only slightly less than the company's Cayenne SUV (in fact, they can barely stand the Boxster) and would like nothing more than to see the Panamera fall flat on its face.

A casual inspection of the new base model Panamera's specification sheet might lead one to believe it a veritable morsel of aforementioned poop.

Though the lopping off of two cylinders saves some 30 kilograms, the new Panamera is still pushing perilously close to two tons, a formidable heft for any engine to motivate, let alone a relatively minuscule 3.6-litre V6.

Worse yet, at least according to that spec sheet, is that Porsche developed the V6 by simply lopping off two of the 4.8L V8's cylinders, never the way to optimize a six-cylinder powertrain. V6s are best harmonically balanced and, therefore, smoother running when aligned 60 degrees between the cylinder banks. Ninety degrees, like the Mercedes 3.5L V6, seldom works as well, feeling coarse and unsophisticated by comparison. The combination of that heft with a rough, high-revving engine could easily have been a huge mistake.

Thankfully for Porsche, the Panamera V6 never feels even remotely unsophisticated. Indeed, the new 3.6L is something of a marvel, feeling both powerful and surprisingly smooth - at least from inside the cabin. Most surprising, perhaps, is that Porsche bothered to develop its own V6 at all.

After all, the Cayenne makes do with a Volkswagen-sourced V6 that shares the very same performance statistics - 300 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque - as the Panamera. That's about all they share, although both offer unconventional formats.

The Panamera version is the unusual 90 degrees mentioned earlier, but the Cayenne's is equally unusual, its 3.6L V6 being a narrow-angle setup (10.6 degrees) made famous in various Volkswagen sports models. On the other hand, the Cayenne's VR6's is massively undersquare with a 89-millimetre bore and a long 96.4-mm stroke, while the Porsche 3.6 is a high-revving oversquare design with Porsche's Variocam variable valve timing.

Quite why Porsche forges ahead with two V6s of identical performance - when other companies are trying to minimize costly parts proliferation - is quite a mystery. Porsche's press kit makes a big deal about the automaker ``choosing'' the 90-degree format because it offers a lower centre of gravity, but that's a load of the aforementioned puppy droppings. The real reason for the format is that it was much cheaper to lop off two cylinders from the V8 rather than develop an all-new engine block.

Porsche Cayenne Price and Pictures

Around the turn of the millennium, legions of Porsche aficionados were outraged. It had become known that Porsche’s then chief executive, Wendelin Wiedeking, was planning to add a four-wheel-drive SUV, the Cayenne, to the range of this most iconic sports carmaker. The main planks of Wiedeking’s argument in favour of the project were that the Cayenne would create a new market sector for Porsche, and a major revenue stream to counter the volatility of the sports car market.

His argument held. The Cayenne went on to be the most successful vehicle Porsche has ever produced. Some 280,000 have been sold since 2003, when the first came off the production line at a purpose-built factory near Leipzig – with 14,000 rumbling around in the UK alone.

Now it is time for Cayenne Mark 2. Even though Porsche enthusiasts consider the first Cayenne to be rather ugly, its successor has a lot to live up to. Indeed, the memory of my first test session in the original Cayenne Turbo, on the racing circuit Porsche built alongside the Leipzig factory, is indelible. From the driving seat, the car felt uncomfortably high off the ground, even for an SUV. It also had well over 400 horsepower, went like the wind and – I told the grinning chief test driver sitting beside me – without question this two-tonne tub of lard was going to roll over in the first high-speed corner.

It didn’t. Instead, it broke traction well before lifting a wheel. Thereafter the trick to driving it quickly became obvious: just throw it sideways. It was like defying the laws of physics.

But not only does the Cayenne Mark 2 better the original on every count, it also takes Porsche into new territory with its very first hybrid. In terms of looks, it is still the case that only its mother might truly love it, but its redesigned exterior has acquired an altogether sleeker, less porcine appearance.

The Porsche Cayenne Is The Best Tractor Ever

Way back when, Ferdinand Porsche designed tractors. Now the Porsche Cayenne his company builds has returned to the fields, lugging a Dutch farmer's 21' sod roller, if only for a photo op and some bragging rights.

The Porsche Cayenne Turbo generates an impressive 450 HP and 450 lb-ft of torque from its twin turbo V8, more than enough to pull the roller along the ground. The nutty farmer had to modify the implement's hitch a bit to fit it to the Porsche, but it works. Of course, the Cayenne isn't fitted with an auxiliary hydraulic pump and rear-mounted quick connects to work the lift wheels (though we're sure Porsche would be happy to fit one for a tremendous price), so this has limited use other than a sight gag.

Porsche 928 successor sketch shows up

Official sketch hints at Porsche 928 successor

Ever since the Panamera sedan made its market debut, there have been rumors that Porsche will do a coupe based on the same chassis that would be a successor to the 928, the company’s first mass-produced V8 powered model. We finally have something “official” from Porsche and you’re looking at it (the picture above).

The sketch has popped up on the opening page of the Porsche Consulting website and appears to show a successor to the 928 V8 coupe with strong 911 design cues.