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PEC Franciacorta to open in Italy
Eighth Porsche Experience Centre worldwide to open in 2021
The ‘biggest PEC of its kind’ is set to
open in northern Italy next year as the
Stuttgart manufacturer extends its
portfolio of worldwide PECs to eight.
Autodromo di Franciacorta’s race
track will play host to a 559,000-squaremetre
site, due to be opened for the
start of 2021. “The Experience Centres
embody what Porsche is all about: firsthand
experience that gets under your
Tony Hatter addenda
993 Coupe designer Tony Hatter
has asked us to make clear that it
was Steve Murkett who styled the
993 RS and GT2. Our article also
implied that Tony designed the
graphics of the GT1, but in fact he
drew the coachwork of the three
GT1s himself and coordinated the
graphic designs of several others.
Elsewhere, modeller Heinz Unger
is erroneously referred to as Hans
Ploch, a previous modeller. Porsche
skin,” says Detlev von Platen, member
of the Executive Board for Sales and
Marketing at Porsche AG. “Franciacorta
will be a further contact point for
customers and fans from all over Europe
who want to experience the Porsche
feeling for themselves.”
Consisting of various handling
circuits and a customer centre, PEC
Franciacorta will follow in the footsteps
Further information provided for our ’25 years of 993’ article
designers prefer to translate
Canonrohr as cannon tubes rather
than gun barrels as the profile did.
There was a caption missing
from the picture of Hatter with a
church organ in the background.
This relates to Porsche’s
contribution to the restoration in
2004 of the organ in Dresden’s
Nikolai Kirche. Hatter, who led the
project, is shown with Anke Wilhelm,
a Porsche interior designer.
of similar centres at locations around
the world, including two in the US, two in
Germany and one each in China, France
and Britain.
Porsche says PEC Franciacorta is
strategically located, as the wider area is
renowned for fine food and wine. Major
cities such as Milan and Verona are a
short journey away, while to the north,
Switzerland and Lake Garda are nearby.
Book review: Excellence
was Expected VI
Karl Ludvigsen has once
more delivered the definitive
history of Porsche
Much has happened in the last
ten years: the VW takeover, the
Panamera and Macan models, the
advent of the 992, the exploits of
the 919 at Le Mans and the Taycan
electric programme to mention only
the major milestones.
The additional decade adds a
fourth volume, making a total of
3,000 pages, but it is not so much
its sheer size that makes Excellence
stand out, but the way it is written.
Ludvigsen is not only a lifetime
auto journalist and professional
writer, but a natural communicator.
His prose is thoughtful, stylish and
varied. Rare among automotive
histories, it engages the reader like
a work of fiction. The author, whose
original research for the first 1977
edition involved hours absorbing dry
records in German in the Porsche
What’s on
in 2020
Autosport show
9-12 January
Europe’s largest
motorsport show
returns to the NEC,
Birmingham
Formula E
2019/20 race 3
18 January
Porsche will take
to the streets of
Santiago, Chile,
to resume battle
in this all-electric
competition
Daytona 24 Hours
25-26 January
The 58th edition
of America’s
most prestigious
race takes place
in Florida
6 Hours of
São Paulo
31 January
Round five of eight
in the 2019/20 FIA
WEC sees the new
RSR race for the
first time in 2020
Geneva
Motor Show
5-15 March
The 992 GT3 will
be presented to
the world’s media
and enthusiasts
for the first time
Archive, understands better than
most how numbing reading endless
technical detail can be.
Ludvigsen has revisited the
entire enterprise, updating,
refocusing and even occasionally
recasting a paragraph when new
information meant an account
needed revision. Without a doubt
this is definitive work on Porsche,
and like previous editions it will
continue to be mined by Porsche
writers and historians, its veracity
and authority unquestioned.