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Wheeler Dealers - Roll Bar

2:40 Wheeler Dealers - Roll Bar

Edd makes some advanced modifications to the Porsche 944 by adding a roll bar. Not a modification for the faint hearted.

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car a little bit, but all retain the luxury feel of a Porsche .
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2:31 Wheeler Dealers - Porsche 944 Test Drive

Mike takes a Porsche 944 Turbo for a test drive in the snow.

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a little tear on the seat. I hope it drives alright. This Porsche turbo has 220-brake horsepower, and to sample the full experience, I need to get it away from these snowy bank streets to some faster snow-free roads. Everything seems okay, the oil pressure, the water temperature. It's even got some fuel in the petrol tank. Everything is working beautifully. The power pressure and the turbo is cracking. I can't fold it, but if there was a problem on the car like this, a Porsche , well it costs a fortune, but it's the old good news. The exhaust has got the back of it missing, there's that
Wheeler Dealers - Track Day Car

2:27 Wheeler Dealers - Track Day Car

Edd knows there must be a catch when Mike arrives with a Porsche with next to nothing wrong with it.

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Ah, look at this. That is very nice. It's a showroom condition Porsche .
Wheeler Dealers - Tuning Performance

2:12 Wheeler Dealers - Tuning Performance

With a slight tweaking of the onboard engine management computer, Edd increases the performance of the 944 by 30 Horse Power.

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Putting the car onto a rolling road means we can get our Porsche up to a top speed in a controlled environment and measure the current horsepower of the car.
Wheeler Dealers - Joyride in the

1:43 Wheeler Dealers - Joyride in the Porsche 944

Before selling the 944 there's only one thing to do, thrash it around a racetrack.

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This is where we get to push that car to its limits. Porsche invited us along to that Driving Experience Centre at Silverstone race track. Over the years that you've done some cars, but this
Ultimate Cars: Power -

4:11 Ultimate Cars: Power - Porsche 911 Turbo

With one of the first turbocharged engines on the market, the 911 Turbo is the definition of a power car, hard to handle but fast as lightening.

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to be put into production with a turbocharged engine. What this enabled Porsche to do was to provide a super car power, the sort of power in the relatively compact dimensions of the Porsche 911, which made the car much more usable. But it also was simply the most challenging car you could buy.
Well, the Porsche 911 Turbo is the car for you.
often than not, downright dangerous, but none more so than the 1975 Porsche 911 Turbo. It is a balls-to-the-wall car to drive and it takes no prisoners.
Porsche 911 is particularly once of that era and earlier. Whatever is powering them are a challenge to drive, and they do not suffer fools gladly, and if you make mistakes and then they tend to punish these mistakes very severely.
thrill-seeking nature because the car's turbo technology was derived from this, the Porsche 917, the world's ultimate racing car. Now, a supercharger is driven from the crankshaft, and uses gears or pistons to force air
negative when you're talking about power cars. You may have noticed the Porsche is a rear-mounted engine. That's 60% of the car's weight hanging over the rear axle, which means if you take a corner
The upside of the rear engine of the Porsche is that you can get phenomenal attraction as you actually exit a corner, and so, hence the mantra slow in, fast out.
Wheeler Dealers - New Series 15 Second

0:15 Wheeler Dealers - New Series 15 Second Porsche Promo

Tune in on Tuesdays at 9:00PM & 9:30PM from 5th May for top tips on used car buying, vintage car bargains and classic car restoration

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are back are in business, and in this week, they turn a Porsche 944 into a track-day car. Wheeler Dealers, Tuesday, from 9:00 on Discovery Real Time.
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2:43 Wheeler Dealers - Porsche 944

Edd China shows off the track-ready Porsche 944.

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with orange at the moment, but actually the racing orange on the Porsche is actually a racing color that we used to do them, probably, back in the '80s or '70s or so. They've just start doing it again, I think, it's on the '98 [unk] whatever it is, they're now racing. And they do change the color slightly, so it's difficult to get hold of a paint coats. We're going for something kind of, bit between the 2, but I think racing cars should be luring. Mike hates this. So you're battling with him for hours, but I think it looks better. This is after all a racing car. It's got to look a little bit cool. Now, I'm sitting in the Porsche without the seats at the moment. Actually, I can probably drive this car uncomfortably, but of course, with the racing car or
Well, here we have it. This is a Porsche 944. This is the real deal. It's a Turbo as you can probably tell. It was on the [unk] take some sticker
Ultimate Cars - Adventure Cars - Lamborghini LM 002

4:09 Ultimate Cars - Adventure Cars - Lamborghini LM 002

With the V12 Countach engine stuck into a giant 4x4, the 002 was known as the Rambo Lambo.

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nickname ever, the Rambo Lambo. In the '80s, 20 years ahead of Porsche's Cayenne, Lamborghini recognized a gap in the market for a supercar that could go anywhere; more specifically, a supercar that could work
Ultimate Cars - Racers -

5:03 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Porsche 917

The most powerful road racing car ever built, the 917's secret was two 911 engines strapped together!

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Porsche achieved these mind-boggling figures by sticking 2 6-cylinder 2.2-liter engines from the Porsche 911 together. That's right, 2 911 engines rammed together. Now, rumor has it that this Frankenstein monster of an engine was air
How could the number 1 ultimate racer be anythin' other than the Porsche 917? It is the fastest car to win Le Mans. And its final incarnation, its 1100 brake-horsepower engine made it the most
I have a very nice experience with the Porsche . I took my mother and the first time she was in what I call a really strong racing car and I took
you're a driver or an engineer, which is why all of the Porsche racing team drivers were too scared to take the car out on the track.
inches of the rear and ei-- voila! A racing legend was born. Porsche returned to Le Mans in 1970 and did nothing less than annihilate the field, but their glory year was the legendary Le Mans of '71. This year, Ferrari had built a series of cars as a direct response to the 917's and once again, Porsche simply destroyed the competition, as well as set in a world-record for the fastest time and the most distance covered at the
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