It took a while for the Porsche 914 to earn respect on the collector’s market, and the Volkswagen-derived air-cooled flat-four that powered most of the production run certainly didn’t help things.

The 914/4, as the original is technically called, was introduced with a workmanlike Volkswagen (not Porsche) flat-four engine, and it was popular, too, with more than 115,600 examples produced from ...

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Co-developed with Volkswagen, the 914 was a quirky departure from the 911, and today, many people unjustly see it as a failed experiment that lacks the genuine Porsche allure. By the mid-1960s, ...

Racing driver Randy Pobst recently brought a 1970 Porsche 914/6 GT to Jay Leno's Garage, and the resulting video provides an in-depth look at a rare version of Porsche's 1970s entry-level sports car.

After working predominantly as a freelancer at CarHP/CarIndigo, Amreetam joined the TopSpeed team as a journalist in September 2021. In a world where SUVs are booming, he favors sedans and adores BMWs ...

The engine in the 1970 914 was a fuel-injected 1.7-liter four-cylinder boxer of Volkswagen origin, rated at 85 horsepower. Perhaps the one in this car really had a Competition Cam, but it had been ...

When it comes to Porsche classics, it's the 911 and 356 that get all the attention. The 914, the company's entry-level sports car from 1969 to 1976, has been living in the shadows for years. But now ...

Few, if any, of us will ever get the chance to be as cool as Robert Redford was in the 1960s, but we can at least drive one of the cars he did that decade. Having withdrawn from Formula 1 at the end ...

When brands associated with the well-heeled make a more affordable car, the result is often extraordinary value. Can the same be said of Porsche and its cheapest car today and 50 years ago? Carfection ...