Few sports cars have the record and results of Porsche's 911, a sports car for all seasons. The eighth generation machine stays true to the original blueprint
It's a curse, because so much of the 911’s character has been bound up in the evolution of its engine, from the original’s air-cooled flat-6 ‘boxer’ engines, through to pioneering developments in turbo-charging, a race-derived system that uses the waste energy of exhaust gases to spin a turbine that draws more air into the engine, increasing the combustion rate and hence power output.This is the top of the ‘stock’ range of current 911s, the 911 Turbo S.
However, it’s not a stretch to say that this kind of performance is largely redundant in the modern world. If you’re seduced by the shape and basic package, then the most basic 911 will surely suffice. If you have the means and space to explore the limits – such as a racetrack – then specialist variants like the 911 GT3 and GT3 strip out the luxuries and focus on the lap times. Where does that leave the Turbo? As an everlasting icon, for sure, regardless of what the future brings.
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