Test drive Porsche 911 Carrera 997 2004 - 2008 coupe

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The latest all -wheel drive Porsche 911 and the asphalt of Cold Turini under its wheels: a cocktail mixed in 2005 based on the components of more than forty exposure was so high in its harmony that he pushed not only automobile, but also other vital values.
 
Now, some time after two fleeting days spent in the south of France alone with the Porsche Carrera 4 and 4s, I am ready to kneen to thank the star, which leads the bends of my journalistic fate. For trying to try to understand Carrera on the Ryazan or Kiev highway from temptation, catching this quintessence of automobile perfection between pits on the one hand and KamAZ on the other. For the fact that by the time of meeting with Porsche, she gave me the opportunity to travel on other wonderful cars and gain sports experience. And, finally, because the first serious Porsche salvo on my personal car scale was made the main one - 911 caliber and from such roads as Monte special stages. If all this, or this meeting happened a couple of years earlier, I would just not understand anything
 
No other car model was brought to perfection for so long. Porsche 911 has been evolving for forty -two years! Initially, he had a controversial layout, a unique look, and not like anything, the reputation of an interesting and quick, but insidious car. All this has remained with him and now, except for insidiousness: many years have passed since the sharp corners of an interesting, but complex and uncouth character have turned into recognizable features of a mature person who was destined for greatness. In his years, it is no longer a place to amuse a check of excessively ambitious drivers to tremble about and without: everything has its own time.
 
The strength of this machine is not that it is the best in any of the supercar nominations - maximum speed, acceleration dynamics or developed lateral accelerations in the bend. Strength in harmony. The fact that over the years of evolution, engineers and pilots managed to lay, adjust, collect and solder a complete complex of unique (due to layout characteristics) of the properties of the machine at a level of integrity that you rarely find in mass models. The latest statement is not at all a paradox: the focus is that, unlike ordinary machines, initially compromise, sports cars are inherent in such impressive abilities in privacy that it becomes difficult to balance such a complex of talents as a whole. Within the framework of the reasonable terms of refinement of one model, it is barely possible. But in the Porsche 911, neither Newton of internal tension, nor a hint of conflict with yourself or the world around us ...
 
Porsche 911 current - 997 series, following a long tradition, received all -wheel drive. It is not easy to distinguish Carrera 4 from the classical version: the all -wheel drive modification has even more puffy (+22 mm width in each side) the rear wings that allowed to hide the wheels of a larger dimension; Yes, the number 4 is on the nameplate. That's all.
 
All the differences are inside: under the steep hips of the body, the necessary attributes of an all -wheel drive car appeared. For the selection of power from the rear axle, Viskoft was used. It is capable of passing up to 40% of the moment, if necessary. So: the drive is purely mechanical. There will be electronics here! I don't know how many years later. But I can vouch that only when they say about the work of the device: perfect. Are you imbued with ideology 911? And the fact that all-wheel drive is deprived of the central differential is also for a reason: the car is controlled as the 911st with a little greater possibilities, but with a real (in a violent rear-wheel drive) character of Carrera, and not as a Subaru backward.
 
He doesn’t press anywhere, but he holds everywhere: a wonderful feeling for the pilot. You can only guess how verified the ergonomics: by how much the sensation of the monstrous accelerations that he experiences is smoothed out, but almost does not feel the body when hefty sporting rollers besiege the 911st on the verge of blocking, disperse the car to a hundred in 4.8 seconds Or slide in a bend.
 
The location of the steering wheel and pedals, the handle of the KP: their moves, efforts, the nature of the fixation - all this is completely. It will not require a special habit or sophisticated-filled work. The governing bodies are so natural and informative that any girl will move and go, chatting on a mobile phone, immediately: without jerks and sudden movements. At the same time, 355 rope stallions in a strict ceramic fiction graze under the hood. And is it possible? It turns out yes!
 
PSM is a branded stabilization system. It will allow small liberties and will not make the car more slowly when passing running turns. She will allow to relax even in the mountains or make a safe trip to a novice driver. However, I was not at Cold Turini to enjoy the perfection of the pistug. The system is undoubtedly good, but it's time to press the button. And there - what will happen.
 
Having decided on such dances over the abyss without electronic railings, God forbid to casually drop the clutch pedal, smoothing the transfers on braking from 200 km/h to the hairpin, do not get into revolutions, unload the front axis at the time of the start of the next PA, squeeze out the left on the brake or Hurry up with gas. As soon as you have time to exhale ah! Finally. There will be no guilt of the car: he clicked on the button, imagining that he was capable of communicating with Porsche without a translator. But if this is really like that, if (!) There is enough strength not to forget that it is not without reason on the unique parapets of Col over Turini over the past hundred years that a huge number of famous alliances of famous pilots and the best cars of different years have been disturbed
 
Sophisticated and at the same time acute pleasure: to feel how the veil was sleeping, separating you from Carrera from each other. For a single movement and directed to eternity, a moment, to grow into the car and dissolve in it, to feel the nobility, strength and depth of feelings of its soul open to you and comprehend the tongue. Understand at a glance, to know from the half -man, to foresee from the source of thought and breathe in unison. Having reached unity, leave the body and mind the road, and to fly away yourself. Bow a hundred meters into the future and break away from the sticky everyday life. Carry the car according to the only right thread that falls on the asphalt in exciting proximity to rocks and cliffs
 
I brushed the last drop of sweat from the tip of the nose and closed the Porsche 911 Carrera 4s door. At this moment, the understanding came that the next stage of life disappeared behind the bend of a serpentine with one -sided movement. I can no longer be the same.
 
No, of course, the car will not help to grow up. But the meeting with Carrera can materialize the point in time, which has become a line.
 
At the end of the test, do you need a verdict to the car? Before us is perfection in our field. Porsche managed to make this car uncompromising in an effort to high. At the same time - perfectly adapted to life in the real world. The faithful traditions, but entirely modern.
 
And if something in the 911th in a burning man seems to be inappropriate, just give yourself a little time. Everything will clear up. In your time.
 
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Technical characteristics Porsche 911 Carrera 4 (4s)
 
The body is a compartment
Equipped mass, kg - 1450 (1475)
Complete mass, kg - 1865 (1875)
Dimensions, mm:
- length - 4427
- width - 1852
- Height - 1310 (1300)
Base, mm - 2350
Trunk volume, l - 105
Maximum speed, km/h - 280 (288)
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, s - 5.1 (4.8)
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle - 16.6 (17.5)
- suburb - 8.4 (8.5)
- mixed - 11.3 (11.8)
Engine:
- Type- gasoline, opposition, 6-cylinder., 24-valve., With 4 distribution. shafts
- working volume, cm3 - 3596 (3894)
- Power, l. With. at MIN -1 - 325/6800 (355/6600)
- torque, NM at min -1 - 370/4250 (400/4600)
Transmission - mechanical., 6 -speed
Wheel suspension:
- Front - Mcpherson (optimized by Porsche)
- rear - multi -link
Tire size:
- front - 235/40R18 (235/35R19)
- rear - 295/35R18 (305/30R19)
 
Text: Dmitry Sokolov

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [08/2005]