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Porsche Gave the 2025 Cayenne GTS Better Performance and a Higher Price

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There’s room for debate over whether the Cayenne saved Porsche, but it’s hard to deny the SUV’s impact on the performance automaker’s bottom line. Though it was absent for the 2024 model year, Porsche’s bringing it back for 2025 with a range of improvements over the outgoing SUV that make it even more compelling than before.

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Porsche launches ideas competition for sustainable mobility; €20,000 in prize money

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At ‘re:publica’, the digital conference in Berlin, Porsche launched the ideas competition ‘Mobility for a Better World’. Together with its partners, Porsche is looking for fresh ideas and technology for the sustainable future of mobility. The winners will be announced during Porsche Sustainability Week in October this year.

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Porsche 911 Hybrid Confirmed for Summer Debut

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For years, the possibility of a hybridized Porsche 911 has been the topic of much discussion among enthusiasts. Others believed the potential performance gains associated with hybridization were too lofty to ignore, often citing the legendary Porsche 918 as proof. Documents stipulate that the model (currently coded as the Porsche 992.2)

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Porsche Humiliates Tesla at the Nürburgring

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This time around, Porsche development driver Lars Kern cracked off a lap time of 7:07.55 Porsche is describing the car it used as a ‘pre-series Taycan’, suggesting the thing could be some sort of new high-performance trim set to debut when the model gets a midcycle refresh later this calendar year. lap in mid-March.

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Porsche Teases the Macan EV - With a Design Sketch

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We’ve known about the Porsche Macan EV for quite a while now, with spy shots and previews popping up all over the internet. Until recently, however, we’d not had an official look from Porsche, but the automaker pulled back the curtain – sort of – by sharing a design sketch of the upcoming electrified SUV.

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Report: Porsche 911 to Go Hybrid in 2025

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Despite looking roughly the same as it has for decades, the Porsche 911 we have today has gone through several refinements. Porsche also updated the car’s exterior styling and redesigned its interior with a new digital gauge cluster and other improvements. Image: Porsche] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

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.& 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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