On the Road With KMR Kelly Moss Road and Race wasted no time in putting their Shadow Drive equipped 991 Turbo S through its paces. Since its completion, the Safari build has done interstate travel through Georgia and Florida, raced around a frozen lake in Wisconsin, and appeared at both the DRT show and Amelia […]
And Then This Happens In Good Company Volkswagen, GMC, Mazda, Porsche, Chevrolet, Harley Davidson, Lamborghini, Koenigsegg, Ram… and Vonnen. These were the winners of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New for 2019. As they framed it: “This year, the biggest automotive advances were all about maximizing efficiency… the best new stuff on the road will […]
Top Performance 911 News From the Fatherland We are excited to learn that Porsche’s CEO, Oliver Blume, confirmed long-circulating rumors and speculation about the 992 series 911 being offered in hybrid trim – and more, it is the top performing 911, above even the Turbo S variant. A Logical Answer Although details are sparse, it […]
LPR PCA Requests Vonnen Tech Session A Homecoming of Sorts Vonnen hosted our second open house for the Loma Prieta Chapter of PCA (Porsche Club of America). If the prior event was all about teasing exciting things to come from team Vonnen, the follow up, two years later, helped fill in the gaps and get […]
A Meeting of Worlds On the heels of Vegas, renown for combining a “best of” sanitized approximation of Paris, Venice, Rome, and Cairo, team Vonnen made our way to Thunderhill Raceway – a combination of the best features of Sonoma Raceway, Laguna Seca, Buttonwillow and more – minus the car destroying barriers. As before with […]
V2V – Vonnen to Vegas Welcome to the Serengeti Long before the sun rose, team Vonnen made their way from the Bay Area to Las Vegas the mecca of all things automotive aftermarket, the annual SEMA show. Hosting everything from monster trucks to stanced Ferraris, SEMA serves as fascinating cross section of the car hobby. […]
Day 1 Silicon Valley Cowboys When presented with the opportunity to run a ½ mile top speed challenge on an airstrip located in an inland cattle ranching community located midway between Northern and Southern California, Team Vonnen did what any self-respecting group of car enthusiasts would – we went in the complete opposite direction and […]