Future Porsche Race Car Drivers

In the Wright family, we start them young, race em!

—Adam

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Porsche Hookah

Yes, you heard it right, you can smoke up with a Porsche Design Hookah. One of the Unobtanium crew saw this at the Porsche Design store.

Here is the official press release.

Press Release
Smoke on the Water: the Porsche Design Shisha

UK exclusive at Porsche Design Shop-in-Shop at Harrods

Stuttgart. Purist design combined with high-end materials: The iconic style credo of the Porsche Design luxury brand is reflected at its best in the brand new Shisha. As part of the Porsche Design World Collection the Shisha will come to the worldwide Porsche Design stores from end of July. It will be available with immediate effect exclusively at the lately opened Porsche Design shop-in-shop at the world famous Harrods department store in London, Knightsbridge.

The extraordinary Porsche Design Shisha combines high-quality materials such as aluminium, stainless steel and glass with the timeless and unique design approach of the luxury brand. Puristic and stylish at the same time. The Porsche Design Shisha is made in Germany and stands at a height of 55 centimetres. It only shows a discreet branding on the aluminium top of the Shisha and comes with a long flexible tube made out of TecFlex material, which is also used for the classic Porsche Design TecFlex writing tools.

The Porsche Design World Collection is dedicated to a united global community and consists of a number of exclusively designed products. Besides the Shisha the assortment contains chopsticks, a tea and soup set as well as a few fashion items such as a jacket, polo shirt and a silk scarf.

The lately opened 55 square-metre shop-in-shop at the world-famous department store Harrods in London offers the full range of Porsche Design products. It is situated in the opulent surroundings of the Knightsbridge store’s vision and sound department at the 3rd Floor’s Millionaires Gallery.

Porsche Design is a luxury brand with a particular focus on technically inspired products. The Porsche Design brand was established in 1972 by Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. The products stand for functional, timeless and purist design, characterised by their technical innovation. The product portfolio includes watches, sunglasses, luggage, electronic products, a men’s fragrance line as well as sports apparel and a fashion collection for men and women. All the products under the brand are designed at the Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See (Austria) and are available worldwide in the company’s own stores, franchise stores, shops-in-shops, high end department stores and exclusive specialist retailers.

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Bad transporting of Porsches

These days most Porsche’s we sell go far away, either all over the US or the world, rarely does the new owner come pick the car up. So that leaves Car Transporters, which can really be a crap-shoot. I have had some that are great and very professional, and then I have seen the worst. Today for example, I sold three cars to one buyer in California, a 64 C Coupe and two 65 912’s. First the guy’s show up with no winch, how they thought they would get the car’s on without one, I don’t know, since none of the three had a motor in it. Luckily, I have a mobile winch and have done this dozens of times. I got to watch these guys do crazy stuff, like take someone’s nice Honda Pilot and use it to drag Porsche’s across my yard, I am sure whoever bought that car didn’t agree to that. Don’t believe me? I took pics.

They than couldn’t get one of the car’s in the right position so they took a 4X4 that was in my yard and started using it as a big lever to shift the car over. I tried to talk to them about how to load but they ignored me and kept speaking another language.

In the end they got all three cars on and strapped down. They thought I was crazy when I was putting straps on hoods and doors, so nothing flew open while the cars were going cross country. But someone has to care, right?

Another time I had a guy picking up a 59 356 Cabriolet, they sent some country dude with a trailer I wouldn’t haul manure with. He loads this car up and has two very small Chinese straps, they kind you would hold your lawnmower down with. So I donated two really thick straps and strapped the car myself, again they thought this was funny.

By far the worst I have ever seen was a 54 Pre-A Coupe I sold. The transporter hooked up with winch, sat on the fender talking on his phone, and proceeded to roll the car up into a ball, literally. The wheels were about 2 feet closer. He didn’t seem to care, just kept talking on the phone.
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The same guy once rolled a really nice 911 into the back of a Subaru, why my customer kept using this guy I will never know, but he did.

People sometimes ask me why I drive all over to pick up cars that I buy, I tell them because I have seen what transporters can and will do. When they do damage the car you really have no recourse because most have a few thousand dollar deductible with their insurance so anything that isn’t huge damage they have to pay for and they say, “Sue me.” Trust me, I know. You get nothing.

The best ever was the time a guy showed up to pick up a bare body. He had an SUV on the trailer with one of the front wheels missing, he hooked a chain to the body and then to the back of the SUV and three wheeled it up the trailer, it was scary and amazing. Bottom line, the ones that don’t care really don’t care, so be careful out there.

—Adam

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New Porsche SUV, The Macan

Porsche Factory Press Release

Name for new Porsche SUV is Macan

Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart’s new sports car in the SUV segment has been given the name Macan. The name Macan is derived from the Indonesian word for tiger and combines suppleness, power, fascination and dynamics – core characteristics of the new off-road car.

“The Macan combines all sports car characteristics with the benefits of a SUV and is a genuine Porsche”, said Bernhard Maier, Member of the Executive Board Sales and Marketing of Porsche AG. “The name of a new Porsche has to fit with the brand, sound good in very many languages and dialects and evoke positive associations.”

As the fifth Porsche model line, the Macan is a central plank of Strategy 2018, by which the sports car manufacturer wishes to expand its model portfolio. Porsche intends the Macan to emulate the success of the Cayenne. The SUV will start coming off the production lines in Leipzig in 2013. To that end, the site in this city in Saxony is being expanded into a fully-fledged production plant including body assembly line and paint shop – with 500 million euro of investment one of the biggest building projects in Porsche’s corporate history. In the medium-term, the sports car manufacturer will be creating more than 1,000 new jobs here.

Word names at Porsche have a concrete connection with the corresponding model and its characteristics: the name Boxster describes the combination of boxer engine and roadster, Cayenne stands for sharpness, the Cayman is snappy and agile and a Panamera is more than a Gran Turismo, capable also of winning the Carrera Panamericana long-distance race.
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Communication Porsche AG
Corporate Communication
Dirk Erat
Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 911 27941
E-Mail: Dirk.Erat@porsche.de

—Adam Wright

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