Guides
Preparation, modification, buying and background reading for Porsche owners.
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How to Prepare Your Porsche for a Road Trip
What to check, what to pack and what to expect when you take your Porsche a long way from home.
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Porsche Track Day Modifications: What to Do First
The weak points worth fixing, the upgrades owners fit, the data systems that help you improve, and the engine conversions people really do.
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Buying a Used Porsche 911, Cayman or Boxster: What to Check
Which model to choose, what goes wrong, and how to check a car before you hand over the money.
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Porsche Recalls and Known Issues: How to Check Your Car
Where to look up your own VIN, the recall campaigns worth knowing about, and the well-known faults that were never recalls.
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Porsche Colours: Famous Factory Paints and Paint to Sample
The colours that people remember, the racing liveries that became options, how Paint to Sample works and how to find your car's paint code.
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Porsche History: Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche, Zuffenhausen and Volkswagen
How an engineering consultancy became a sports car maker, including the parts of the story that are uncomfortable, and how Porsche and Volkswagen ended up owning each other.
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Famous Porsche Drivers: Herrmann, Siffert, Elford, Ickx, Bell, Bellof, Röhrl
The endurance racers, rally drivers and test drivers most closely tied to Porsche, and what each of them did in the cars.
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Famous Porsche Cars: 550 Spyder, 917, 956, 959 and More
The racing and road cars that built the name, from a 550 kg Spyder to the 919 Hybrid.