Well howdeedo. If this sucker doesn’t give you pause, you might want to check your pulse. It’s a Porsche 917 replica cobbed up by Elite Enterprises, a company famous for laying fiberglass kit bodies. There’s no word on what powers this thing, but something tells us it falls far short of the 1,000 horsepower-plus the [...]

The ever-lovable Porsche 914 has just turned 40. We’ve already expounded time and time again on all there is to admire about this little mid-engine rig, but for those of you who are new to Autofiends, allow me to recap. This car managed to combine all that was best in VW and Porsche to create [...]

It’s no secret we’re whole-heartedly obsessed with the Porsche 917. And why not? All it takes is a quick glance over the car’s hefty specs to raise some eyebrows. With 12 horizontally-opposed cylinders the “baby” 917 laid down 520 horsepower – small potatoes compared to the mythical 1,400 pony beasts the company would roll out [...]

We all know the Nissan GT-R can set a blistering lap around the Nürburgring in the dry. But with a sophisticated all-wheel-drive system, Godzilla should be plenty capable of tackling the ‘Ring even when it’s all covered with snow. After all, a Porsche 917/10 can. Anything Porsche can do, Nissan can do better, right? Well, [...]

Of all the cars you could choose to drive around a snow-covered Nürburgring, why on earth would you pick a fire-breathing monster like the Porsche 917/10? Depending on how suicidal you were feeling, and how much boost you wanted the twin-turbos to pump into the flat-12 engine, these things produced anywhere from 850 to 1000 [...]