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I WENT TO A PORSCHE MEET IN LONDON. NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THE £250,000 GT3 RS

London, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 7:50 in the morning. Thirty people woke up without having to, started their Porsche and came here. On who they are, what nobody asks them, and what money doesn't buy.Read the story

LONDON TO TUSCANY IN A PORSCHE 911: THE ROAD TRIP YOU HAVE TO DO ONCE IN YOUR LIFE

Fifteen days, 2,500 kilometres, a silver 911 Carrera GTS, and Alessandra in the passenger seat. From London, through the Eurotunnel, Paris and Burgundy, to the hairpins before Tuscany - with a stop at a French petrol station that nearly ended it all. Part one of two.Read the story

I WAS ONCE THE KID ON THE RAILINGS: TWO SEPTEMBERS WITH SPEEDSECTOR IN RHODES

A Gumball clip I wore out on views somewhere around 2006, a humble Cayman loaded onto a truck under an F430, and two years in Rhodes - which taught me that we don't buy cars for other people, but for the kid hiding inside us.Read the story

THE THIEF OF JOY STAYED OUTSIDE: COLLECTING MY FIRST 911

Twenty years after the first time I sat in a 911 pretending to drive, I took a train to a place just north of Nottingham to collect my own. A story about dreams that take their time - with an F12 in the background, ice-grey seatbelts, and a heart rate of 160.Read the story