Good morning! It’s Monday, September 30, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Paulina Porizkova Had Two Toyota 4Runners Stolen Back-to-Back 1st Gear: Chinese Car Ban Could Cut Car Sales And … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik Every new generation of Porsche 911 GT3 RS is more outrageous than the last, with increasingly race car–like aerodynamic packages designed specifically to extract the fastest lap times and best performance possible. The current 992-gen GT3 RS is no different, with wild fender cut-outs, fins on the roof, a deep diffuser, large … Read more
In This Story Another day, another horrible situation on Angeles Crest. The highway is home to plenty of car culture, including some truly gorgeous builds, as well as more than its fair share of deadly crashes and near-misses. In this latest crash, a Porsche 911 GT3 managed to entirely rip the engine out of another, … Read more
Photo: Porsche In This Story The legendary West Coast delicacy that is In-N-Out Burger has an incredibly simplistic menu that has hardly changed throughout its 75-year history, and yet the In-N-Out behind my apartment building has a line wrapping around the block every single day. Sometimes you have to know when you get a recipe … Read more
Photo: Le Mans Retired French racing driver Hervé Poulain is the father of the “Art Car,” having commissioned Alexander Calder to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans. Since then BMW has created nearly two dozen different Art Cars, some of which were fielded at Le Mans by Poulain, … Read more
When I kicked off this particular Porsche project, I had a vision of what I wanted it to look like when I was done. Way back before the painting process had even begun I met with Sean from Spotlight Customs to discuss options. I knew that if the exterior of the car was going to … Read more
When I first laid eyes on my 996 Turbo two years ago today, it was in a bit of a sad state. This car has lived a hard life of 90,000 miles, serving as a demo car for a drift racer, and a friend’s track day machine for years after that. By the time I’d … Read more
When I first got into Porsche’s smallest offering, the 718 Boxster GTS 4.0, I was immediately taken aback by how old it felt. A seven-inch infotainment, dozens of buttons, mostly-analog gauges and wired-only Apple CarPlay transport you back to a time that existed before COVID and the Biden Administration. Put simply, the car feels ancient … Read more
German automaker and Porsche fanatics Ruf Automobile GmbH debuted an all-wheel drive off-road carbon-tubbed Rodeo concept car in 2020, and after several years of tweaks, the car has arrived in production-spec. Based on the same carbon chassis as Ruf’s CTR and SCR, this car isn’t actually based on a Porsche 911 despite looking a whole … Read more
Porsche didn’t invent the word “Speedster” as it existed in the pre-war American motor car lexicon, well before Porsche existed. At this point, however, Porsche has pretty much owned the term since the 1950s after importer Max Hoffman slapped the name on a lightweight motorsport-oriented open-top 356 variant. After the 356 Speedster ended production, there … Read more
