Porsche Driving Training Course
No commentsThere are certain luxury vehicle manufacturers that will require you to do a training course before you are allowed to purchase one of their vehicles. These cars are very powerful and could prove dangerous should they be driven by an inexperienced driver. Luckily for enthusiasts, Porsche does not fall under this category. Of course Porsches are very powerful cars themselves, and driving them takes some getting used to. This being said, they are still relatively easy to master, although they could still prove to be a driving challenge to some.
Porsche offers driving courses in almost every country! It is not compulsory that you take one of these courses when you purchase a Porsche, but it is recommended. Taking a Porsche driving course will allow you to familiarize yourself with your car, and how it reacts to different driving situations. The Porsche driving training course is also recommended to all sports car drivers, because the course specializes in operating a very fast and powerful car. The courses range from Pre-Level to Precision. Naturally the Pre-Level course is for beginners who want to get a handle on driving a sports car. The Precision course will help those experienced drivers be able to handle even the most tightest and dangerous of driving circumstances. The Porsche training courses even range into a specific driving course just for women, and one that specializes in off road driving. The Porsche Cayenne is usually the model that is used for the off road driving training course.
There is even an Ice Training Porsche driving course. This course teaches you how to handle driving your Porsche in winter conditions, with ice slicked roads and falling snow. Porsche has set up a -15 degree snow cover to practice on, under controlled conditions.
The greatest thing about these Porsche driving courses is that you do not need to own a Porsche to drive one! There are four different Porsche models available for hire that you can take for a spin around the track. If you do own your own Porsche, it is advised that you drive your own vehicle, as it is one that you are familiar with. Even if you don’t have a Porsche, you can still experience how it is to drive one, and you will be learning excellent driving skills that will certainly benefit you in the future. In order to participate in the course, and hire a Porsche, you will need to be at least 18 years of age and be a valid driver’s license holder.
There are partner hotels that work with Porsche near the tracks where the training courses take place. This is very convenient if you are only a tourist in the city where you will be taking your training course. These Porsche training courses are also a wonderful present, and can be purchased in gift voucher form.
So, if you are a proud Porsche owner, and hunger to take your driving skills to the next level, what better place to practice than with Porsche themselves? If not, and you simply desire to experience what it’s like to drive behind the wheel of a Porsche, then this may be your only opportunity. Not only will you enjoy yourself controlling such a beautiful, powerful vehicle, but you will also walk away with some very valuable driving skills.
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Keeping Your Porsche In Immaculate Condition
No commentsYour beautiful Porsche is probably one of your most prized possessions, and also one of your most expensive. The best way to keep your Porsche looking like it was just driven out the showroom, is to know how to clean and maintain it properly. This will also benefit you in the future when you wish to trade it in or sell it for a newer model.
Firstly, there are certain Porsche colors that appear cleaner and sleeker than others. If you are the flashy type, you will probably enjoy a bright yellow or red Porsche. These colors are attractive and attention grabbing, and will also not show up the dirt so badly. Silver is always a popular color choice for Porsches, and can appear cleaner for longer when compared to black and white. A black or white Porsche is devastatingly gorgeous, but needs to be kept immaculately clean to look good all the time. Any little piece of dust or dirt will show up strongly against these two colors. Darker blues will also display dirt much more prominently.
Regardless of which color Porsche you have, you will need to keep it clean. Obviously with the colors that display the dirt more clearly, you will need to clean it more often. First of all you should concentrate on the body shell. There are official Porsche products which can be purchased for cleaning your car. These include shampoos, waxes and other cleaning materials. It is always best to clean your Porsche gently with a non-abrasive cloth. For waxing you will need a special waxing cloth. Most car accessories stores will sell these cleaning materials, under the Porsche brand or separately. Ensure that you are purchasing the right shampoo and wax for the color of your Porsche and its specific cleaning requirements.
It is best to wash your Porsche about once a week to ensure that it is kept shiny and beautiful. Dirt and grit can damage your exterior’s shell. Waxing is not necessary every time that you wash your Porsche, and can be done every two or three weeks. It is best to apply the wax overnight and leave it on, then the following morning shine the car to perfection! Don’t forget about your tires. Dirty tires can spoil the beauty of a clean Porsche. There are also special tire cleaning shampoos and polishes available. Depending on how dirty they get, your tires should be cleaned each time your Porsche gets a bath.
Now let’s talk about the interior. It is one of your favorite parts of your Porsche. All Porsches come standard with beautiful leather seats. Always ensure that you take the necessary precautions to prevent your leather seats from getting scratched or damaged. What you do in your Porsche is up to you, but try not to drink or eat whilst driving. Spillages of liquids could stain the leather, and be costly to repair. The same applies to smoking in your Porsche. You do not want wayward ash to burn a hole in the leather, nor do you want the car to have an unpleasant odor.
There are excellent dust sprays and leather treatment oils that you can purchase to keep the interior of your Porsche looking fresh and beautiful. It is imperative that you have floor mats in your Porsche to prevent the carpets from getting dirty and damaged. Dirt and grit from your shoes can be abrasive to the carpets, and ultimately expensive to replace. There are stunning Porsche floor mats on the market, available in every color and form to suit any taste.
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Porsche And Formula One
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When Porsche entered into races, Porsche astonished the world with its performances. But participation in Formula One races brought mixed results. In the 1961-1962 season, Porsche participated as a constructor but produced just one win in a championship race, claimed by Dan Gurney at the 1962 French Grand Prix. In a non-championship race, one week later Stuttgart’s Solitude it repeated the success. At the end of the season, Porsche retired from F1 due to the high costs.
In 1983, Porsche returned to Formula One, supplying engines badged as TAG units for the McLaren Team. It was a success as the Porsche-powered cars won two constructor championships in 1984 and 1985 and three driver crowns in 1984, 1985 and 1986.
Less than ten years later, in 1991, Porsche returned as a engine supplier, but this time the results were disastrous: Footwork, the Porsche-powered cars, didn’t score a single point and at over half of the races it even failed to qualify. Since that year, Porsche has not participated in Formula One.
Still, lightly-modified Porsches participate in many competitions around the world, mostly in amateur classes for enthusiasts. The only professional category is the Porsche Michelin Supercup raced
as a support category for European Formula One rounds.
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Porsche Panamera
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A four-door, four-seat coupe, called Porsche Panamera will be launched in 2009. The car, powered by a modified version of the 4.5 L V8 found in the Cayenne, equipped with the FSI system will be front engined and rear wheel drive. Although it is extremely unlikely, rumors is that an option for the Panamera will be the V10 engine from Porsche’s limited-run Carrera GT supercar.
Porsche Panamera will be produced in the new plant at Leipzig alongside the Cayenne. It is the first V8-engined sports car built by Porsche since 1995, when the 928 was discontinued and some consider it a suitable successor to the two-doored 928. The company built the new model as a direct competitor to the Mercedes-Benz CLS 55 AMG and Maserati Quattroporte and (to a lesser degree) a less expensive alternative to expensive vehicles such the, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, Bentley Continental GT and Aston Martin Rapide.
Like Porsche Carrera’s name, the Panamera’s derives from the Carrera Panamerican race. Before it, there were other four-door sedans prototypes, such as the 1991 Porsche 989 prototype or the even earlier 4 door prototype based on the 911, but they never went into production.
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Porsche - A Brief History
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Ferdinand Porsche played an important role in the development of airplanes and racing cars, and the construction of tanks for the Wehrmacht. He is an automobile engineer with more than aa thousand patents to his name. He was appointed chief engineer at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart in the 1920s. Later on, he set up his own engineering workshop and designed among others
the Volkswagen. At the plant where Volkswagen was made, Wolfsburg, he was chief of operations and at the end of the war he was interned by the Allies.
He was released a few years later and started building his first car with his son, Ferry Porsche. The car was named the Porsche 356 and it was a sports car and reminiscent of the Volkswagen.
It had the same four-cylinder boxer engine that was rear-mounted, just like the VW. It was far from being a powerful sports car, developing only 40 bhp and a maximum speed of 87 mph (140 km/h).
First produced as a convertible and later as a hard top it distinguished by the very elegant and innovative body. It was developed in the workshop of Erwin Komenda, a master of restrained streamlining who had been in charge of sheet metal and design techniques at Porsche since the VW Beetle. The new style of closed coupe was designed by Komenda and it soon became the embodiment of the sports car, thanks to its fastback.
This tradition was continued by Komenda and Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, the founder’s grandson, with the 911.
The 911 became easily recognizable: it had attractive sloping bonnet and what later became characteristic “frog eye” headlights, curves running from the top edge of the windscreen to the rear bumper and a straight waistline. From a functional and technical point of view it was more like BMW 1500, although it retained the stylistic features of the original Porsche. The new 911 will become the foundation stone of Porsche’s identity, even though the design was not always appreciated. During the 1970s and 1980s, the designers attempts to distance Porsche from its legendary design brought the company to the edge of disaster. The more modern 924 model, “a people’s Porsche”, developed with Volkswagen, as well as the 928 were far from fulfilling the expectations.
In the 1990s, the company realized that what for over twenty years was perceived as a straitjacket, it was in fact a market advantage. During the 1990s, Porsche became highly profitable since they now knew that the typical Porsche features were timeless. Nearly forty people now worked in the design department on further developments of the long-running 911.
These developments included the 911 GTI, a powerful combination of sports and racing car, put forward by the in-house designer Anthony R. Hatter. In 1999, chief designer proudly presented the new Boxster which enabled Porshe to establish a second independent range of models.
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Porsche Approved
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When a pre-owned Porsche meets the high quality standards set by the brand, it will receive the name Porsche Approved. So if you want a Porsche but you can’t afford a brand new one, an Approved vehicle is your best choice since you can be sure that it will meet your expectations.
But what is the difference between a Porsche Approved certified vehicle from a conventional pre-owned vehicle?
- First of all, the Porsche Approved cars are inspected by factory trained technicians and if they find any faults, repairs are carried out in line with the strict Porsche quality criteria.
- Secondly, every Porsche Approved vehicle comes with a comprehensive Warranty:
If sold while under the new car warranty, Coverage is up to 6 years or 100,000m/160,000km total, whichever comes first - If sold once the new vehicle warranty has expired, Coverage is 2 years from the date of sale or up to 100,000m/160,000km, whichever comes first.
- And last but not least, you will get membership in Porsche Road Assistance that offers exclusive support server and security.
The result of owing a Porsche Approved is that you will enjoy driving a safe, quality value which really cannot be described as a pre-owned vehicle.
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Porsche - The Beginning
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It’s hard to say exactly which is the beginning of Porsche story. It could be in 1950, when the famous Max Hoffman introduced the Porsche 356 to the United States. Or in 1948 when the first automobile to bear the name Porsche was introduced.
But in order to understand Porsche’s heritage and its philosophy we need to go back to 1875, when, in September, at the home of a tinsmith in the Bohemian village of Haffersdorf, a son was born. His name was Ferdinand Porsche.
Since his adolescence, Ferdinand Porsche showed glimpses of technical genius: at the age of 18, he wired family’s home for electricity in 1893. Still, he didn’t show many signs of disciplined engineering skills that will eventually become his trademark. Even if the “Doctor” is usually appended to his name, it is in essence honorary, since his only formal technical training was as a part-time engineering student in Vienna.
By the age of 25, the young Ferdinand Porsche had entered the field of automotive design. His first car design was already accepted by Lohner & Co. of Vienna. Over the next 20 years, Ferdinand Porsche, the temperamental but brilliant engineer succeeded in associating with every major automobile manufacturer in Germany. At the same time, he designed a dozen of the most technically significant cars in history.
Working for Mercedes-Benz, he helped develop the most revered Mercedes-Benz cars of all time: the SSK series. For NSU, he designed Auto Union Wanderer and the Type 32, a precursor of the Volkswagen Beetle.
After being dismissed from Mercedes for disagreeing with the firm’s staid engineering policies, Porsche decided to establish what later became Porsche A.G.: his own engineering consulting group. In a small office in Stuttgart, the senior Dr. Porsche gathered a select group of engineers to work under the dramatic name, “Doctor of Engineering Ferdinand Porsche, Inc., Construction Facility for Land, Air, and Sea Transportation.”
One of his employees was his youthful son, Ferry. His primary interest was one that any young man might select: sports and racing cars The senior Dr. Porsche and his team were kept extremely busy. The consulting firm developed for Steyr (now the utility-vehicle wing of the Steyr- Daimler-Puch combine), the Austria luxury sedan, but it did not progress beyond the prototype stage. They worked a lot for Auto Union, now Audi: the company developed the Front, the world’s first front-drive economy car. They astonished Auto union with the mid-engine Grand Prix cars and their supercharged V-12 and V-16 engines which, together with Mercedes- Benz racers, dominated European auto racing for nearly a decade.
After that, the firm created its best-known designs for NSU and Zundapp. The pair of prototypes was characterized by Dr. Porsche’s patented torsion-bar suspension and a rear-mounted engine. Since neither company moved rapidly enough to manufacture the designs, Porsche sold the concept to the German government. Then, he oversaw the construction of a plant on Wolfsburg to manufacture the design. His drawings called the car the Type 60. The world came to know it as the Volkswagen Beetle.
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Porsche vs Ferrari
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Porsche and Ferrari are German and Italian sides of the same coin, interpretations of the sports car idea. Both founded by a dominant patriarch, both honed in racing, both more than 50 years old, both with engineering and styling integrity. Whether on the track of Le Mains or on the streets, the two have always been put head-to-head and compared. Even the most naive motorist associates these two names with both performance and style.
We’ve decided to compare the methodical Porsche 911 Carrera 4S and the passionate Ferrari F430 because both of them astonish with their performance while attempting to maintain a reasonable amount of practicality but do not pretend to be anything other than sports cars.
A modern sports car should feature these characteristics: it should be started easily, maneuvered around town, blasted on a couple of country roads, it looks and performs the part on a racetrack but at the same time it is very safe.
The easier way to separate the two cars is by measuring figures since both of them have mastered the modern sports car requirements and basically there’s no other way to choose between these two phenomenal cars.
What initially impresses is Ferrari’s lightning fast 4-second 0-100km/h acceleration and thrilling exhaust tone. As the occupants are pinned to the seats, the new generation 4.3-litre V8 pushes out 368 snarling kilowatts. Porsche’s acceleration also offers that kick in the pants a super car should deliver, although it is 0.8 seconds slower at the 100 km/k mark.
With such acceleration performance, it comes natural for both cars to excel in the braking department. The two cars offer optional ceramic discs for impressive stopping.
Porsche’s engine gets the upper hand as it is more refined and on the economy rank leaps ahead Ferrari with a 11.8 liters per 100 km as opposed to 18.3 liters. Both cars deliver the power through impressive 6-speed gearboxes and offer top rate handling performance.
Both F430 and Carrera4S offer great interior comfort and even if the space is limited, the occupants don’t feel claustrophobic and flustered.
Although an impressive mix of suede, carbon fiber and aluminum abound in the Ferrari, the Italians stand no chance when it comes to the high finish level attained by the Germans.
Speed and silence are key elements for any super car. Then after that look and appearance are the biggest draw cards. The Carrera 4S is a typical Porsche, despite the new proportions. It is a great looking car, like any other 911 but somehow the styling no longer creates the jaw dropping reaction that the Ferrari does. Indeed, traditionalists may say that Porsche pays homage to its roots, but the truth is that Ferrari F430 simply draws the attention.
However, even if Ferrari F430 takes your breath away with its appearance, the super car title goes to the Porsche Carrera 4S with a more complete all round package.