On The Beautiful Monterey Peninsula, It’s Auction Time!

Gooding & Company presents a nice line up of  top-shelf Porsches this year. Here at PML we’ve picked three of the lots we think will perform well: A gorgeous ‘64 356C Cabriolet, a beautiful ‘64 904 Carrera GTS, and an early ‘65 911 Coupe

Other Porsches slated to cross the Gooding Auction block at Monterey are:

1. ‘69 911E Coupe
2. ‘58 356A Speedster
3. ‘68 911 “Soft window” Targa
4. ‘67 911S Coupe
5. ‘71 911E Coupe

Gooding & Company will conduct their auction August 20th – 21st at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center located within the Pebble Beach grounds . The Monterey Peninsula is a real pleasant place to be this time of year. Better plan ahead: the downside is local hotel accommodations get real expensive (and generally sold out) real fast during “Monterey Historics Week” – the basic laws of supply and demand still work.

We’ll see you there!

'64 356 C Cabriolet: Done In A Beautiful Color Combination

'64 356 C Cabriolet: Interior Is Just Flawless With A Wooden Wheel Topping It All Off

'64 356 c Cabriolet: A Very Well Maintained Example, Ready For Its' New Home

'64 904 Carrera GTS: A Superb Example Of A True Porsche Icon

'64 904 Carrera GTS: Shown Here Is The Amazing 4-Cam, Twin-Plug 2.0ltr Engine

'64 904 Carrera GTS: Has Not Been Tracked Since The Recent $800k Restoration

'65 911 Coupe: Beautiful Red Example Of An Early Short Wheelbase 911

'65 911 Coupe: Immaculate, Period Correct Interior

'65 911 Coupe: Perfect Addition To Any Porsche Enthusiasts' Garage

On The Beautiful Monterey Peninsula, It’s Auction Time!

Bonhams presents a nice line up of  top-shelf Porsches this year. Here at PML we’ve picked three of the lots we think will perform well: A ‘66 Type 906 Carrera Race Car, An outstanding ‘79 935/80 Race Car with British  GT Championship history, and most notably, the Sebring 12 hour champ: The ‘86 Type 962 IMSA GTP chassis # 962-121

Other Porsches slated to cross the Bonhams Auction block at Monterey can be found here.

The Bonhams Auction takes place August 18th – 20th at The Quail Lodge Golf Club, located in Carmel, California . The Monterey Peninsula is a real pleasant place to be this time of year. Better plan ahead: the downside is local hotel accommodations get real expensive (and generally sold out) real fast during “Monterey Historics Week” – the basic laws of supply and demand still work.

We’ll see you there!

'66 Type 906: Possibly The Most Aesthetically Pleasing Of All The "White Race Porsches"

'66 Type 906: The Porsche 901/20 Race Engine Was Standard Equipment

'66 Type 906: It's Understood That 66 Examples Were Ultimately Built

'79 Type 935/80: The 935 Is Likely The Fastest Production-based Race Porsche Of All Time

'79 Type 935/80: Current Owner Has Had This Car Since 1984

'79 Type 935/80: Current Owner Has Campaigned This Car At Monterey On Numerous Occasions

'86 Type 962-121: This Was One Of The Most Successful 962s To Compete In IMSA Racing

'86 Type 962-121: Jochen Mass And Bobby Rahal Won Sebring In 1987 With 962-121

'86 Type 962-121: This Car Is Quite Active On The Vintage Race Circuit

On The Beautiful Monterey Peninsula, It’s Auction Time!

Russo & Steele presents a nice line up of  top-shelf Porsches this year. Here at PML we’ve picked three of the lots we think will perform well: A ‘63 356 Cabriolet, an outstanding ‘73 911 Carrera RS 2.7 “Touring”,  and a very low mileage, showroom condition ‘08 997 GT2.

Other Porsches slated to cross the Russo & Steele Auction block at Monterey can be found here.

The Russo & Steele Auction takes place August 18th – 20th at the Marriott, located in downtown Monterey. The Monterey Peninsula is a real pleasant place to be this time of year. Better plan ahead: the downside is local hotel accommodations get real expensive (and generally sold out) real fast during “Monterey Historics Week” – the basic laws of supply and demand still work.

We’ll see you there!

'73 911 Carrera RS 2.7: Fitted With Some Great Period Options

'73 911 Carrera RS 2.7: The Interior is Well Preserved And Correct

'73 911 Carrera RS 2.7: Wears Older, Grand Prix White Paint, But Still Very Presentable

'63 356 Cabriolet: Just Finished A Very Comprehensive Restoration In 2011

'63 356 Cabriolet: Leather Interior In Original Natural Cuoro, Freshly Restored

'63 356 Cabriolet: Top Has Been Redone With All Correct Parts

'08 997 GT2: Lighter And More Powerful Than A 911 Turbo - Seriously Fast

'08 997 GT2: Options Abound In The Sport Seat Equipped Leather Interior

'08 997 GT2: 18 Miles On Odometer - This Is An Extremely Rare Opportunity

On The Beautiful Monterey Peninsula, It’s Auction Time!

RM Auctions presents a nice line up of  top-shelf Porsches this year. Here at PML we’ve picked three of the lots we think will perform well: a Black over Red 356B Super 90 Cabriolet, an outstanding  Red over Black ‘67 911S “Soft Window” Targa, and the Grey over Black “Steve McQueen 911S” .

Other Porsches slated to cross the RM Auction block at Monterey include a ‘61 356B Coupe, a ‘72 911 RSR Coupe, an ‘04 Carrera GT, a ‘73 911 Carrera RS Touring, and a ‘57 356A Speedster

The RM Auction takes place August 19th – 20th at the Portola Hotel and Spa (Monterey Conference Center), located in downtown Monterey. The Monterey Peninsula is a real pleasant place to be this time of year.  Better plan ahead: the downside is local hotel accommodations get real expensive (and generally sold out) real fast during “Monterey Historics Week” – the basic laws of supply and demand still work.

We’ll see you there!

1963 Super 90 Cabriolet - Pre Auction Estimate: $130k - $160k

1963 Super 90 Cabriolet - This Appears To Be A Top Notch Restoration Of A Great Car

1963 Super 90 Cabriolet - Beautiful Engine Compartment

1967 911S "Soft Window" Targa - Pre Auction Estimate: $185k - $225k

1967 911S "Soft Window" Targa Recently Completed A Full, Bare Metal Restoration

1967 911S "Soft Window" Targa Has Sports Seats And A Gorgeous Steering Wheel

1970 911S Coupe - The "Steve McQueen Le Mans" Car

1970 911S Coupe - This Lot Will See Some Competitive Bidding

1970 911S Coupe Interior - The "King Of Cool" Had Air Conditioning!

New Study By Market Research Institute J.D. Power

Stuttgart. The Porsche 911 reaffirms its top quality: according to the latest “Initial Quality Study” by the renowned American market research institute J.D. Power, the internationally much in demand sports car from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is the best vehicle of a European manufacturer.

Based on detailed surveys of more than 73,000 car buyers, the Initial Quality Study examined the level of satisfaction with vehicle quality in the first three months after delivery of a new car. A total of 234 car models (model year: 2011) were evaluated according to 228 criteria. They included entirely different categories – for example “driving experience” or “engine and transmission”. The second-best European car after the Porsche 911 was the Porsche Panamera Gran Turismo, which has been produced at the state-of-the-art plant in Leipzig since 2009.

“Increasing complexity in automotive technology and rising customer demands concerning premium vehicles represent a great challenge. Porsche is not only tackling this challenge, it is also continuously setting new standards in this respect”, says Stefan Knirsch, Head of Corporate Quality at the sports car manufacturer.

Success Story: 15 Years Of The Boxster Model Line

Stuttgart. A nice round number to celebrate the birthday: Almost exactly 15 years to the month after production began, the Porsche Boxster together with its sister model, the Cayman, exceeded the 300,000 mark for the number of vehicles built. Together with its timeless attractiveness, this two-seater, mid-engine car from the Dr. Ing. h.c.H. Porsche AG, Stuttgart has what it takes to make yet another sports car icon. As an anniversary model, a Boxster Spyder with Platinum Silver metallic finish and Carrera red natural leather interior trim rolled off the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen production line in June, destined for a German customer.

There are solid reasons for this long-standing success: The Boxster and Cayman are continuously developed based on a rigorous mid-engine concept and are therefore deemed to this day to set the standard for sports cars of their class. In the important export market that is the United States, this is the tenth year already that they have been ranked among the “10 Best” vehicles and occupy second and third places in Germany as the vehicles that hold their value the best, hot on the heels of the 911.

The Boxster’s origins testify to the typical Porsche blend of capability, courage and farsightedness. In economically straitened times the company decided to go onto the offensive and unveiled a concept car for a classic mid-engine roadster at the 1993 Detroit Motor Show. In its design language, the show car was reminiscent of the 356 »No. 1« and the 550 Spyder. The overwhelming public response clinched the decision to proceed to series production of the Boxster, which began in the summer of 1996.

Dynamic lines, outstanding performance and an attractive price quickly catapulted the mid-engine sports car into the bestseller list while attracting new customer circles to Porsche. To put the successful concept on a broader basis, Porsche also developed a Coupé based on the open-topped, two-seater platform, that made its world debut at the 2005 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show as the Cayman. The enormous demand resulted in the Boxster and Cayman being built at Valmet Automotive in Finland in addition to Zuffenhausen.

The model range currently comprises the four open-topped variants, the Boxster, Boxster S, Boxster S Black Edition and Boxster Spyder. These are complemented by the Cayman, Cayman S, Cayman S Black Edition and Cayman R Coupés. The engine variants for the two model lines range between 255 hp (~ 188 kW) and 330 hp (~ 243 kW); thanks to Porsche Intelligent Performance fuel consumption is between 9.4 l/100 km (~ 30 mpg imp.) and 9.8 l/100 km (~ 29 mpg imp.).

Strong Demand For Cayenne And Panamera

Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart again delivered significantly more cars to customers worldwide in June 2011. Deliveries increased by 29.5% compared with the same month the year before to reach 10,677 vehicles. The sports car manufacturer delivered a total of 60,659 new vehicles in the first half of the year, 36.8% more than from January to June the year before.

Bernhard Maier, Porsche AG Board of Management Member for Sales and Marketing, signalled his satisfaction with developments: “We managed to increase our deliveries significantly again in June. This is accompanied by better-than-expected sales figures. The significant increase in new vehicle orders, especially for our front-engined sports cars, Cayenne and Panamera, also gives grounds for anticipating good sales figures in the coming months.

In June 2011 Porsche managed to grow in almost every region worldwide. The response from Chinese customers was again especially strong: Deliveries more than quadrupled to 2,423 compared with the same month the year before. The most successful model apart from the Cayenne off-road vehicle was the Panamera. With 2,546 vehicles Porsche announced growth of 18.9% for the US market in June 2011. In the domestic German market, the sports car manufacturer delivered 1,344 vehicles in June, broadly in line with the same month the year before. The diesel version of the Cayenne was especially popular. On the other hand were weaker sales in a number of European markets such as Great Britain, the Netherlands or Austria that translated into a 6.5% Europe-wide decline in customer deliveries in June. Conversely, the Russian market showed a significant increase last month with 63.6% to reach 216 vehicles.

The Cayenne again enjoyed especially strong demand. In June alone the sports car manufacturer sold 4,994 of the sporty off-road vehicles, 69.2% more than in the same month the year before. First half-year deliveries almost doubled to 30,055 compared with the same period the previous year. This included more than 2,000 Cayenne S Hybrid, making Porsche the global market leader for hybrid off-road vehicles. In June the Zuffenhausen company sold 2,318 Panameras, 14.1% more of the sporty sedans than in the same month the year before. The sports car model lines also slightly exceeded their previous year’s level in the reporting month. 2,015 vehicles of the 911 model line were delivered – up 1%. With 1,350 vehicles delivered, the Boxster model line, which also includes the Cayman, posted growth of 6.5%compared with the same month the year before.

Cayenne Especially Popular With Customers

Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, increased their customer deliveries in May 2011. With 11,679 vehicles, deliveries were 67.5 per cent higher than in May 2010. Looking back over the first five months of fiscal year 2011 a total of 49,982 vehicles were sold, an increase of 38.4 per cent over the previous year. During this period, demand for the Cayenne was particularly high: from January to May 2011 25,061 Porsche SUVs were delivered to customers. This is more than double compared to the previous year.

Bernhard Maier, Board Member Sales and Marketing of Porsche AG saw this development as a clear signal: “With these very good results in May, we have achieved great monthly results for new orders and deliveries for the twelfth consecutive time. As of this past May, current sales in all regions and of all model lines exceed our expectations. This speaks for a highly motivated global sales organization, which, with the implementation of various measures for process optimization in recent months, combined with our emotional products, is enjoying success on a broad front.”

All Porsche markets world-wide were able to achieve growth in May 2011. Particularly Chinese customers responded strongly: compared to the same month last year deliveries tripled to 2,380 units. In North America (U.S. and Canada) Porsche reported an increase of 51.3 per cent in May 2011 with the delivery of precisely 3,126 vehicles. Europe also followed the positive delivery trend, with 4,054 units sold (+ 29.5 per cent) compared to May 2010. In its domestic market, Germany, the sports car manufacturer delivered 1,545 vehicles, a growth of 23.3 per cent compared to the same month last year.

The most successful model line in May 2011 was the Cayenne with 5,886 vehicles sold, more than a three-fold increase compared to the same month last year. The Panamera made a significant contribution to the successful performance with deliveries of 2,301 units, an increase of 27.8 per cent. The sports car model lines slightly surpassed the previous year’s level: 2,101 units of the 911 model line were delivered – an increase of 3.1 per cent. With 1,391 units, the Boxster model line, including the Cayman, posted a slight increase of 2.1 per cent compared to the same month last year. Of these, 835 vehicles were accounted for by the Boxster and 556 units by the Cayman.

Best Sales Month Since March 2007 – Year-to-date sales up 46%

ATLANTA, May 2011—Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche sports cars, Cayenne SUVs and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, announced April sales in the U.S. of 3,172 vehicles compared to the same period last year when it sold 1,747, an increase of 82 percent.

April’s results represent the German sports car maker’s best April since 2006 and best sales month since March 2007.  So far in 2011, the company’s sales are 10,179 vehicles, compared to the same four month period last year when they were 6,969, which represents a 46 percent increase year-to-date.

Notable was the all-new Cayenne, which continues to sell at a torrid pace, up 384 percent for the month and 141 percent for the year. Additionally, the iconic 911 was up nearly 66 percent for the month and is up 13 percent for the year.

For the month, Porsche’s Approved Certified Pre-Owned vehicle sales were 776, compared to 713 last year.

Best March Since 2007

ATLANTA, April  2011—Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor of Porsche sports cars, Cayenne SUVs and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up in the United States, announced March sales in the U.S. of 2,588 units compared to the same period last year when it sold 1,905, an increase of 36 percent.

March’s results represent the German sports car maker’s best March sales total in the U.S. since 2007.  So far in 2011, the company’s sales are 7,007, compared to the same three month period last year when they were 5,222, which represents a 34 percent increase.

For the month, Porsche’s Approved Certified Pre-Owned vehicle sales were 771, compared to 699 last year.