The Le Mans organizer, Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) in Paris, announced the list of competitors selected to participate in the 82nd edition of the classic long-distance race on June 14 and 15, 2014. Porsche has registered its new works team for the two 919 Hybrid cars as “Porsche Team” in the top category of […]
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Audi have unveiled their sporty looking compact crossover concept at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, called the Allroad Shooting Brake and is importantly part of Audis e-tron hybrid range. Offering only three doors, the crossover resembles a raised three door Audi A3 but with a plush interior which appears more appropriate
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Porsche AG has announced their driver line-up for 2014’s Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Le Mans Prototypes 1 (LMP1) category hybrid racing car. Le Mans has always been the stand out race in the series, often regarded as one of the highest prestige motoring events of the year. Gordon Murray, the famous
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The new Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid, the world’s first plug-in hybrid for the executive saloon class, has gained OLEV (Office for Low Emission Vehicles) Grant approval. Only a select handful of cars qualify for the Government-backed scheme, which entitles customers of qualifying ULEV (Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles) models to a 25% grant towards the cost of
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Shortly before delivery of the first customer vehicles, the Porsche 918 Spyder is beating its own benchmark values. Marking the success of the final tuning measures, the super sports car from Stuttgart is now clearly the fastest ever road-going Porsche. With the weight-optimised ‘Weissach’ package fitted, the 918 Spyder accelerates from zero to 62 mph
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The Los Angeles Auto Show confirmed that it will host 22 world debuts, making for a total of 56 vehicle debuts overall, to be unveiled in front of a global audience, November 19, 20 and 21, 2013. November 19 will focus specifically on technology announcements held in the Connected Car Expo area of the Los Angeles Convention
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A unique and successful history links Porsche with Le Mans. 2014 will see Porsche making a return to the top catagory 24 Hours of Le Mans race with two LMP1 prototypes – 16 years after its last overall victory in 1998 with the Porsche 911 GT1. For Porsche, the coming year will mark the start
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This year’s Regent Street Motor Show (Saturday 2 November 2013) will be the biggest yet with the display area in London’s busy West End extended from Piccadilly Circus right up to Oxford Circus for the very first time, making the motor show the already well established free motor show even larger. The Regent Street Motor
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The Volkswagen Group has set its sights on global market leadership in electric mobility. With Renault-Nissan currently leading the way in the field of electric mobility, Volkswagen are starting a battle that can only be good for the consumer. With both Renault and Nissan electric models already on sale, including the top selling Nissan Leaf,
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On the eve of its global public Motor Show debut this week at Frankfurt, the Porsche 918 Spyder has conquered the 20.6 kilometre Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit in Germany in less than seven minutes. At the same time, it set a new lap record for a vehicle with global road homologation. Achieving a time of exactly six
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