The IFC-produced Porsche documentary, "Welcome to the Family" is now available on panamera.com. Here is a short clip from the piece, featuring legendary car designer Freeman Thomas sharing his unique insights. Click through tohttp://www.panamera.com/#/Shocker! Porsche 911 beats Mini Cooper in "race" at "Road Atlanta"
In the over-hyped and ridiculous contrived "race" between the Mini Cooper and the Porsche 911, a victor has been crowned, and as you'd expect, the blokes from BMW had their bumpers handed to them. Despite creating a "track" at the infield of Road Atlanta designed to maximize the Mini's potential and neuter the high-speed prowess of the Porsche, the Cooper still lost the battle by a full two seconds. Naturally, Mini likes to point out that the difference was $38,000 a second, but to anyone paying attention, the additional $76k is money well spent... particularly on a real track. Maybe Mini should've reconsidered Hyundai's offer. More
