الاثنين، 17 مارس 2014

2014 Porsche 911 Turbo / Turbo S

The Bilster Berg Drive Resort is a private club track in central Germany that squiggles over hill and dale at the top of a small mountain where there once was a British Army ammo dump. It’s not a track-map sticker you really want for your car, as the circuit is shaped almost exactly like the large intestine. And people in our group kept calling it “Blister Berg,” the mountain of  blisters. The Germans just stared as they ladled out the lunch of roasted pig knuckles. 

The famous Porsche wheelman Walter Rörhl consulted on the design, which is a tossed salad of hidden apexes just past blind crests leading to off-camber death-drops. It’s a great, if scary, place to drive the new Porsche 911 Turbo because it proves how shockingly well this 3550-pound touring coupe can do something it is not expected to do much of: track work.
2014 Porsche 911 Turbo / Turbo S 


Porsche’s intention is to give you it all. Blistering speed, of course, but, just as important, daily usability, the comfort of a sheik’s casbah, and the best fuel efficiency possible in a 911 offering up to 560 horsepower. In cracking its lid and packing in even more horses, the car’s keister swells by yet another 1.1 inches from its predecessor. The 911 Turbo has always had hips you want to grab with both hands and squeeze, but now, from the back, the new Turbo looks like a Peter Paul Rubens scene in CinemaScope.
Porsche is compelled to turn up the wick to fend off  interlopers in the $150,000-to-$200,000 sandbox where the Turbo now plays. There are AMGs, Aston Martins, and Audi R8s rattling around in this space, plus the forthcoming McLaren P13. Hence, both the base Turbo and the Turbo S are for the first time being launched simultaneously, for $149,250 and $182,050, respectively. The price difference basically pays for all the Turbo’s performance options including carbon-ceramic brakes, plus 40 horsepower, center-lock forged wheels, slightly different air intakes up front, and the all-important “S” badge
 

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