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Lady Driver: Porsche’s Trickle-Down Opulence
An Evening of Style with Porsche Design and Vogue The Porsche Design store’s July 11th re-opening soiree may have been lacking in flashy German cars, but there was no shortage of eye candy ripe for...
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In Defense of the 2014 Porsche Macan
Porsche sold only 18,507 Cayenne SUV’s in Los Angeles during 2013. Which is surprising, considering that sometimes driving in L.A. traffic, it seems that all 18,507 are stuck next to you on the 405....
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Carchella: The Best of The New York Auto Show
Auto shows are like Coachella for car freaks. All your favorite brands/bands are together in one place, there is a lot of walking around, and sometimes, you can have a transcendent experience without...
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Supercar Doesn’t Begin to Cover it: 2015 Porsche Spyder
“Supercar” is a loaded term. Living in Los Angeles, we see supercars all around the city, sometimes without even noticing. Anywhere else, witnessing the never-ending parade of Lamborghinis, Ferraris,...
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Could This Safety Feature Have Saved Paul Walker?
Kristine Rodas—widow of Roger Rodas, who was driving with Paul Walker during his fatal crash in November 2013—filed a lawsuit against Porsche last week. The official complaint claims that Rodas’ 2005...
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Contest: Win An Evening with the Porsche Macan
Where would you drive a Porsche Macan? Up Malibu Canyon? Along the PCH? Through a Taco Bell drive-thru? Use the #LADriver hashtag on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to tell us your dream drive, and you...
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Porsche’s New GTS Models: Sexy as Hell
Never one to rest on their laurels, Porsche has upped their game with the introduction of two new variants of their two-seater Boxster and Cayman models — the GTS. The GTS gets a whole dang slew of...
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The New Porsche Cayenne Is Spicy — Even Sans a V8
Okay, rumors of the eight-cylinder engine’s demise may be somewhat exaggerated, but the legendary powerplant certainly isn’t nearly as popular as it used to be. The V8 mythology was cemented in the...
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Wednesday Wheels: Coast to Coast Stunners
Welcome to our new weekly feature, where we spot some of the most impressive, double-take-inducing cars seen this week. We’re not talking about expensive Beemers that blend into the background; we mean...
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The Porsche Panamera Makes Everything Better, But Especially Ojai
All professional car writers have a favorite road, somewhere near and dear to them. For the Gentleman Journalist, this road so happens to be in the somewhat undiscovered and bucolic hamlet of Ojai,...
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Highlights from the 2014 L.A. Auto Show
The L.A. Auto show, that yearly extravaganza, is now upon us. I recently had a chance to spend some time pouring over all the new makes and models and, at least to a large subset of industry, the...
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The 2015 Porsche 911 GTS Will Soon Rule L.A.’s Roads
The Porsche 911 is a familiar shape on L.A. roads, a four-wheeled fixture that has seen countless spinoffs of sub-models during its half-century on the planet. The various flavors of 911 have ranged...
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The Gentleman Journalist’s Best Cars of 2014: Sedans and Sports Cars
As December winds down and the Gentleman Journalist has a moment to reflect on the year of awesome automotiveness that was 2014, there are moments of glee, surprise and yes, horror, that snap within...
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Rich Fool Crashes $250K Ferrari During Hollywood Drag Race
Fast cars were made to be crashed, right? It would seem that way, at least in L.A., where speeding, overpriced vehicles are spectacularly destroyed regularly. The latest incident happened on Thursday...
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You Could Own Janis Joplin’s Porsche
Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 365c 1600 is as closely associated with the blues legend as her feather boas, fierce wail, and brief relationship with Kris Kristofferson. The car, emblazoned with a mural...
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The Qatari Drag Racer Who Scandalized Beverly Hills
After a video of a seven-figure Ferrari careening through the Beverly Hills flats this weekend went viral, the car’s wealthy owner high-tailed it out of the country, the L.A. Times reports. Sheik...
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The Porsche Disruptor Dinner
On Wednesday, October 28, Porsche, in partnership with Los Angeles magazine, hosted The Disruptor Dinner at The Bungalow Santa Monica. The evening brought together entrepreneurs and leaders in...
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The 7 Must-See Luxury Cars at the L.A. Auto Show
The Gentleman Journalist has been going to the L.A. Auto Show for years now, since he was a wee lad living in the wilds of Tarzana, back when I was known as ‘The Gentlekid Journalist.” Every year since...
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Sensory Overload: 2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder
Sixty years after his famous, fatal car accident, James Dean has remained the king of cool. With his brooding expression and his iconic, widely emulated pompadour, Dean was a cultural icon and the...
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These Custom Cars Are Like Porn for Porsche Enthusiasts
The seductive $600,000-plus supercars coming out of Singer Vehicle Design in Sun Valley started out as decades-old Porsche 911s before being rebuilt by Singer founder and Porsche fanatic Rob Dickinson...
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