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Insane Collection of White Porsches Sells for $30 Million

The Truth About Cars

An expansive, strange collection of all-white Porsche products and memorabilia has sold for a total of $30.5 Tony DeFeo, former editor of Mopar Action, also called the car questionable after examining it personally. We have a massive collection of white Porsches and an owner that doesn’t love appearing on camera.

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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

The Truth About Cars

.& With this in mind, Porsche’s CFO was recently quoted as saying European combustion bans will probably need to be delayed and there’s good reason to believe him.& However, Porsche Chief Financial Officer Lutz Meschke was quoted by Automotive News on Thursday casting some doubts.&

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Chevy’s Cruze Diesel: a compact diesel contender in the US

Green Car Congress

The Cruze Diesel is identified by a discreet badge on the trunk. US buyers hunting for a non-premium diesel passenger car (i.e., not a truck or SUV, and not a vehicle from BMW, Audi, Porsche or Mercedes-Benz) have until recently only had Volkswagen-brand cars as an option: Beetle, Golf, Jetta, Passat. Click to enlarge.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

Green Car Congress

Until recently, the four main modular toolkits (modularen Baukästen) of the Group were: the MQB (transverse, driven by the Volkswagen brand); the MLB (longitudinal, driven by the Audi brand); the MSB (standard drive, driven by Porsche); and the NSF (New Small Family). Earlier post.) The first production MEB vehicle, a version of the I.D.

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Road Test: 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre EV

Clean Fleet Report

The 1,300-watt, 18-speaker (7-tweeters, 7-midrange, 2-sub-woofers, and two ‘Exciters’ overhead that make the complete headliner resonate like a tweeter) six-channel surround sound system has Studio and Theater settings and a nine-band equalizer, to match your personal listening preference.

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How does leasing an electric car work?

Drive Electric

You can either put this through a company as a business lease, which means you can reclaim some or all of the VAT or take it on a personal contract. With a Business Contract Hire (BCH) or Personal Contract Hire (PCH), you’ll never own the vehicle you lease outright. Contract Hire. Contract Purchase. Availability issues.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

Clearly, that’s no lazy Rover diesel chugging below the hood—or even a Chevrolet V-8, a current go-to engine for vintage-car fans seeking a contemporary edge. Porsches, Jaguars, Fiats, VW Beetles and Buses, even Ferraris, have all gone under the knife, with an increasing number of entrepreneurs serving this growing market.