NEWS

PORSCHE Great Britain has announced the appointment of Charles Tennant as group general manager of the Porsche Retail Group. Tennant has been working for the German sportscar maker for the past four years, joining the firm as network operations Manager in 2007. Prior to this, Tennant has held various senior roles with BMW as national [...]

I’ve decided that if we ever do make it to our goal of trading up from nothing to a Porsche 911 in our charity challenge I will keep driving it to a minimum. Why? Well it seems Porsche has become my bogey brand; my Friday 13th of car makers. Once again I’ve had to make [...]

THE 2010 911uk Porsche Awards have reached their final stages of of voting it has been announced. The awards – now in their 3rd year – are the only Porsche UK Industry awards to decide who deserves to be recognised across the large Porsche Specialist Industry in the UK. For the 2010 awards there are [...]

WOLFGANG Hatz has been appointed by Porsche to its board of management it has been announced. Hatz will head the research and development division of the firm, and takes over responsibilities left by Wolfgang Dürheimer as reported yesterday by Car Dealer. Matthias Müller, chairman of the executive board of Porsche AG, said: ’Wolfgang Hatz has many [...]

DUBLIN is getting its very own Porsche Service Centre providing customers with all their after-sales requirements. The new service centre will be staffed by a specialist Porsche-trained technician and is fully equipped to look after all Porsche cars from classics to the current model range. The new Porsche Service Centre focuses around its workshop, which [...]

Remember how we were incomprehensibly blown away by the Porsche 911 Turbo? 500bhp of awe-inspiring performance, handling to similarly astound and an overall desirability that plain hurt? Well, Porsche has only gone and done it again… How? By giving the 911 Turbo even MORE power! Making it EVEN faster and EVEN more expensive. This means it [...]

It’s never really been the prettiest of cars, and to be honest compared to its stable mates it’s pretty, well, ugly. But the Cayenne has always been capable, not only at taking the kids to school, but as a proper 4×4 and all-round family car.  To some non-believers it can come as a bit of [...]

PORSCHE Autofarm is boosting its service department with a special while-you-wait service for shopaholic owners. A free supercar shuttle drives owners of cars receiving attention to and from the retail complex. This avoids customers having to wait at the dealer, and also takes the pressure off Autofarm to rush pitstops. It’s possible because Bicester Village [...]

PORSCHE has introduced a standard 2-year warranty for all cars sold on its official Approved Used scheme. It includes a 111-point check and reconditioning up to a minimum standard, using Porsche Genuine parts, before approval is granted. Not that Porsche reckons it’s a big expense – the maker says the fact two-thirds of all Porsches [...]

IT’S all about fast cars in this week’s Car Dealer video with the new Porsche GT2 RS getting top billing. Our man Alex Goy has also been taking a look at the very fast, and very orange, BMW M3 GTS and chuckles at a Volvo safety demonstration that went a little bit wrong. And lastly [...]

PORSCHE specialist car dealer Dove House is looking for a Porsche service manager with big aspirations. The Rushden retailer is expanding into the aftersales arena, by building its own in-house workshop. This is being constructed right now – but the search for the right person to manage it continues. That’s because the final candidate will [...]

PORSCHE is embarking on a new strategy to bring greater personalisation to its cars and better profits for dealers. The firm has bought its high-line options scheme under an umbrella offer – Porsche Exclusive – and is using the super-special 911 Sport Classic to promote this refocus. Porsche Exclusive chief Boris Apenbrink explained to Car [...]

OUR Trading Up feature has finally begun – and we’ve decided to give it a catchier name! Henceforth known as the ‘911 for 2011’ feature we have inadvertently set ourselves a deadline in exchange for a catchy title. That does of course depend on how you interpret it – it could mean any time in [...]

ONE-in-10 Porsche Boxsters will be the new Spyder variant. It is that sort of specialised car, one that Porsche won’t even guarantee will completely insulate the cabin from the rain (yes, really). That’s why the firm expects dealers will sell them as second or third cars. Think of this, then, as the Boxster Club Sport, the [...]

HONDA car dealer Kevin Adams has saved an immaculate Porsche from being destroyed under the scrappage scheme. The Brayley Honda sales manager rescued the 70,000-mile coupe from the crusher and has added it to his classic fleet. It was just in the nick of time too, he explained. It was only by chance that he [...]

PORSCHE car dealers are playing a crucial role in helping hardcore car nuts make the right new car choice. Brand comms man Wayne Darley admitted to Car Dealer Magazine that the network’s fleet of demonstrators will prove key to the final specification of most Boxster Spyders sold. The big decision is the gearbox – standard [...]

PORSCHE is finally bowing to the inevitable and launching a 3 year warranty for its new car range. All 2010 model year cars will carry the 3 year warranty – and will start to arrive in Porsche car dealers from May. Porsche brand communications man Wayne Dorley told Car Dealer Magazine it was due to [...]

PORSCHE has given us a genuine show surprise with the 918 Spyder – a plug-in petrol-electric hybrid supercar! Currently it’s a concept, but it’s still good enough for a lap time of the Nurburgring in less than 7 minutes 30 seconds. It can also, though not at the same time, run for up to 16 [...]

PORSCHE’S new 911 Turbo can accelerate from 0-62mph in as little as 3.4 seconds. Now that is fast – very fast. But maybe not quite fast enough. See, Porsche’s engineers dropped enough hints to us on the new car’s launch to suggest it’s very much on the  ‘conservative’ side of cautious. Meaning, to all intents, [...]

PORSCHE will launch its most expensive 911 Turbo yet when it pulls the covers off the Turbo S variant. Costing £123k – or £130k as a Cabriolet – it is an even more special version of the new 911 Turbo that has been winning many fans. Incredibly, Porsche has given it a power boost. The [...]