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The Porsche 911 Turbo S road test feature has been published on the FIA World Endurance Championship website with the words I penned from the 3-day trip to Stuttgart and a selection of images taken with the X-T1 and X-Pro1. You can read my thoughts about the car that I had for three days and drove for over 2000km HERE but to say I had an amazing time would be a slight understatement.  This is a phenomenal machine, possibly the best GT car on the road today.   At £140,000 it isn't a cheap runabout but it certainly makes the senses tingle when you are driving along.  I've now had the privilege of testing a Porsche 911 Turbo S, an Aston Martin Vantage S V12 and an Audi R8 .  I am now talking to Ferrari to produce a similar feature with a 458 as they are the last of the three GTE manufacturers that race with us in the FIA WEC. More news on that soon. Here are some more images from the three days with the Porsche 911 Turbo S. ...

Last month I posted some images of a feature I was writing for the FIA WEC Silverstone programme on the Aston Martin Vantage S V12.  Eight pages of the programme were dedicated for this feature and now that it has been published I can now share it here on the blog. Two days with the Vantage S was spent near the Aston Martin HQ at Gaydon, Aston Martin Racing HQ in Banbury and then up to Silverstone.  Day two was spent in the Malvern Hills getting some great dynamic shots of the car on some magnificent country roads.   John Rourke of Adrenal Media was taking the images while I was composing my prose while I drove the car around, but all of the shots here are ones that I took during a wonderful two days with an Aston Martin. THE BEST OF BRITISH Italy has Ferrari, Germany has Porsche and Britain has Aston Martin; these manufacturers are very much part of the national identity for each of these countries.  The Aston Martin brand, which celebrated its 100th anni...