Test drive Porsche 911 Carrera 997 since 2008 coupe

Not according to the rules!

From the birth of the first Porsche-911, six decades have passed. But the company does not refuse a happy index and once again refreshes the legendary model. Porsche of the 2009 model year was tested by Anatoly Fomin. Photo by the author and Porsche.
Ferdinand Anton Ernest Porsche (or just Ferry, the son of the famous designer Volkswagen-Zhuk) by 1948 was already experienced and equally talented engineer. Designing Porsche-356, he, of course, knew about the minuses of the layout with the motor in the rear overhang these are overloaded wheels and control problems, especially in short S-shaped turns. One thing is a leisurely beetle, another sports car. But in the base, between the backs of the seats and the rear wheels of the 356th, only the most modest four-cylinder engine with a capacity of 35 hp was placed. The engine had to be rearranged in the rear overhang, the layout allowed to add two very small children's places, and most importantly, use more powerful motors. In 1964, the 1.6-liter opposition issued already decent 95 hp.
Incredible!
The engines of the current Porsche-911 received direct injection, became more powerful and economical than the predecessor. They have fewer details, they are easier. Motor 3.6 l, 345 hp For just Carrera and 3.8 liters, 385 hp. For the version of Carrer S. This is enough to dial 100 km/h in less than 5 s and develop about 300 km/h with a mechanical six -speed gearbox. But can it be different on a real sports car? Perhaps more, it should be!
The most popular Porsche abbreviation this season PDK (Porsche Doppelkupplung Getriebe) gearbox with double clutch. Six seven gearboxes carefully cut the entire high -speed range into proportional segments. A long seventh for an economical walking regime. Two clutches allow you to accelerate and switch the gears at the same time.
At each switch, PDK wins about 0.15 s on the mechanics, and rises 0.30.4 s to 200 km/h. A little? This is about 20 m enough to go around as a standing one. And there is a Sport Chrono Plus mode, squeezing all the juices out of the box and motor. Due to the rapid operation of clutch, the car wins the usual Carrera S in acceleration to 100 km/h another 0.2 s, accelerating in 4.3 s. The most inconvenient switching with the sixth to the second gear, when the intermediate fifth is also involved, takes 0.42 s. Can you repeat?
All this is especially impressive at the signature training ground. At the end of a short starting line in the speedometer window 215 km/h. Incredible! The obvious disadvantages of the rear -engine car Porsche specialists magically turned into advantages. Well -loaded rear wheels perfectly convert power into acceleration, and not into smoke of burning tires. A heavy backing is good for braking, because it is not unloaded little.
Wide bast shoes are literally thrown out of the turn, turning its natural desire to revenge tail into an optimal position on the road! This does not happen? I would not have believed if I had not seen the work of factory drivers on the Porsche track. It was not allowed to go like this: safety precautions do not allow. The factory landfill is very crowded nowhere
MARVELOUS!
But Porsche-911 is waiting in the parking lot at the hotel. There is a 40-kilometer piece of an autobahn in the test route, and numerous Vilyushki are so different from each other landtrasse. A simple -looking driver's seat is very convenient. True, a colleague of more solid forms complained about crowding apparently, Porsche also implies the sportion of the figure
In the noise of the engine, the intake system dominates, not release. A huge receiver combines pipelines from two air filters with minimal resistance. Surprisingly, the voice of the opposition six depends not so much on the revolutions as on the opening of the throttle: the more the bass. Another damper that controls the resonance in the intake system closes at medium speeds, increasing the torque and again giving a characteristic hoarseness to the well-delivered bass. Perhaps, only near the red line of the tachometer, the engine sings ordinaryly, like a giant vacuum cleaner. This is also the tradition of the current motor sound recalls those times when 911 was still equipped with an air cooling engine, where the fan noise prevailed at high speeds
Despite the features of the weight, Porsche is surprisingly stable in the straight line. In winding areas, the speed limits the review. The steering wheel is magnificent not even a hint of a gap in a rail or a damping of a steering wheel and a wheel, as if from one piece of metal!
Here is the long -awaited straight line you can drown the gas pedal until it stops! Acceleration even with 180 km/h is more than impressive. After a couple of kilometers in the sixth gear, the car, gaining 280 km/h, is still accelerating, although the road goes to rise. Alas, the left row is again busy, on the few unlimited autobahns you can accelerate only in the early morning. And the time is not at all morning. Even a car, built not according to the rules, still must observe them. Although the usual 160180 km/h in the left row of an autobahn is not enough for him to be offended!
Porsche 911 is a separate world in which its own laws and rules. Here the wrong concept not only lives for decades, but also wins.
Quickly and economically
Porsche does not get tired of surprising: a 345-horsepower car with a maximumee of 287 km/h when testing in a mixed cycle consumes 9.8 liters of gasoline per 100 km, 385-horsepower with a maximumee of 300 10.2 liters. It turns out that the tank for 64 liters is not at all a mockery!
Porsche 911 The strength of the motor, the strength of traditions, the power of emotions.
They smoke here!
At the factory in Tsuffenhausen, only Porsche-911 is made. No less than the latest achievements of technology, here they value reliable hands of workers, they work only 55 minutes of each hour, then a legal paid smoke break! Non -smokers indulge in communication or reading the newspaper. And this is when the whole world is fighting a pernicious habit. But on Porsche, not without reason, they consider prohibitions always upset. And collecting cars for a good mood, being the most evil or irritated, is simply impossible! Sometimes cigarettes, harming health, strengthen the team more than expensive corporate Tim-booking is ready to recognize even a non-smoker author.
Anatoly Fomin
 

 
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"