Test Drive Porsche 911 Carrera 4 991 since 2012 coupe

Bird of youth

There are several settlements around the German city of Cologne with complex, but smearing names - Mensen-Gladbach, Bergish Gladbach, etc. As aristocrats with double surnames of the Sukhovo-Kobylin and Bender-Zadunay, they mounted unspoken, but long history. Sometimes the story that has happened the century ago, becomes a story that is going on here and now. The launch of the new Porsche Carrera 4 Cabrio and Porsche Carrera 4S Cabrio this year will be a historic event. At least for the little Mirka of our worldwide garage.
The Lagair is a badge for the start of Carrera 4S Cabrio in Bersberg Palace of Bergish Gladbach. And also - fourteen poles lined up in two rows on the palace tracks in anticipation of the saddles.
Make the guys from Stuttgart to arrange a holiday. Weekdays were gray, and here - and here they are, bright yellow, red, silver and blue 4s carren, like a quintessence of a good mood. Something is akin to champagne, which all threatened to open Pushkin, when the thoughts of black will come. He did not know that instead of marrying Figaro, it was possible to read Roadbook Cabriolet Trail Driving Presentation Schloss Bensberg 2005, and instead of a bottle to open a soft electronics controlled top new model of the famous machine. So inserts, so inserts.
 
Apparently, Stuttgart Organizers decided, not to say unnecessary words, immediately disperse the automotive community by the quality of the goods - the plan is elegant, like a stone tied to a stick, which we were shouted on the head (for dark: this is a quote from O'Henry).
On the first day, without any celebrations, we simply gave 4S a 44 kilometer for 44 kilometers on 44. We are drivers attributable to Leisure Drivers, and do not chase the prizes, so they took a red car with a tiptronic. Let the knob hang steep and fast on the handle.
So that no one has illusions: 911 carrera 4s cabriolet is equipped with a 3.8-liter engine, which has a capacity of 355 horses and accelerates cars up to one hundred and 4.7 seconds. The highest speed measured on the track, - 288 km / h. But, unlike other countries, in Germany you can ride in the same way in some sections of civilian motorways. At the same time, the organizers are cynical to all of us advised, despite the speed modes, to follow road rules.
We roll out outside the castle through the gate, located in such a way that somewhere below, in the valley, a couple of holy ears of the Cologne Cathedral could be seen. The owners of the palace differed in a large taste, or rather, Prince Yang Villem, who began to build a house three hundred years ago. First Impressions: The places behind it became even smaller, and even the camera is decent to put nowhere else, not what to plant your favorite Kurzhara or Labrador. This fact is exacerbated by a complex design of a grid screen, which suppresses air dewinges in such a way that when the roof is open with a neighbor. With a neighbor something to talk about? What about Bensberg Spa Castle? So we did not take melting.
We leave the city of Bensberg, who was merged by the administrative reform of 1974 with Bergish-gladbah together, and we have an option slightly to run on the federal highway A4. What we use. The machine, thanks to the four leading (connection, as in the former models, through the visco-coupling, which transmits to the front wheels from five to forty percent of power), confidently keeps at any speeds and even on a wet road. Trying to stick rain, and therefore we have no special desire to use the open roof mode. However, we see that colleagues, stuck at the intersection, lit emergency lights and open the top. For this, they actually should not stop. The new roof will quite confidently open and 50 km / h in twenty seconds. What opens up you new opportunities not to be a natural cataclysm somewhere on the road without a parking lot.
Ahead of us are colleagues from Spain - now there is a possibility to consider the stern of the new flagship of Porsche. This lincard has an amazing muscular ass. Indeed, the circles around the rear wheels are 4.4 cm wider than that of the front-wheel drive models 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, which, of course, are quite well known to the readers of the autopilot and just fans of the legendary car. Oksana Hartonyuk (Porsche Rasha), who sits on my right, says that the muscular is considered a general view of the new car, and not just ass, and in general, the word ass in corporate materials is not found. Well, okay, we just like how this wide bright frog stands on the road. Although some believe that this is a cat on four paws. We give us that the word cat is already tightly occupied by another chic brand of car.
We rush through the small towns of Orutems, Lomar and Rosrat to enter the Bensberg Palace. Ahead is a cocktail and a press conference of the winners. The winners announced that for the global press, the start of the new car was already a month ago on the historic highway in Monte Carlo. Thus, the Spaniards, Russian and Portuguese explained that they are just not a world press. Although the Chinese and Russian markets further were named in the report by the most promising. Thank you, I have already seen the promising city of Vladivostok. As he was thirty years ago, it was practicing, so it was in the 80s and even more so in the 90s. He will die a promising city. The main thing is that the representative of Porsche reported, the price of Carrera Cabrio in Europe will be 79 900, and C4S - 88,700, while in the USA - $ 87100 and $ 97100
The press conference on which only one question sounded and then in Spanish, dinner began. He was worthy of the price category of the new model. Wine was like this: 2004 Le Domaine de Menard Cote de GascoGne and 2003 Belleruche Cote du Rhone M.Chapoutier. Still, the Schloss Bensberg Hotel consists of a very decent association Leading Hotels of the World.
The very first car that carried on board the name Porsche 365 No 1 was actually an open roadster. Since the launch of the first 911 Cabrio in 1982, more than 130,000 cars were sold. And only for the past, 2004 - more than 10,000 cars with open top. In total, shortly before the end of the fiscal year at the factory, the Porsche brand was sold in the 80,000 car. Is it worth checking that the lion's share of sales is Porsche Cayenne?
On the second day after a long conversation under the cigar about the fate of the empires, it turned out that the rain was only intensified, and now there can be no speech about the open roof. This time we got a red Carrera with a 3.6-liter engine. It accelerates a little bit, but the body feels this difference without instrumental control not very clearly. And here other seats, as it seemed to us after much sharp by 3.8 liters. This time the route is designed for passing in two hours - 120.9 km. It includes a plot of autobahn, hilly serpentines, small roads in dark forests through Engelskirchen, Marienheide, Kurten and Lindlar. And on a blowable wet autobahn, and on the narrow wet tracks the machine behaves perfectly, despite the fact that the rear wheels have a little already than in 4s, and have dimensions of 295/35 Zr 18.
And in terms of applied linguistic language - we seemed funny that in Russian Carrera is, of course, it, while the manufacturer calls his Brother Cars cars - that is, brothers.

Text Igor Maltsev, photo of the author and Porsche AG

Porsche 911.
Carrera 4 Carrera 4S Cabriolet
Gasoline engine, 6-cylinder opposite
Working volume (cube. Cm) 3596 3824
Power (hp at rpm) 325 at 6800 355 at 6600
Moment (nm at rpm) 370 at 4250 400 at 4600
Corner full
Gearbox 6-speed mechanical
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4427/1852/1311 4427/1852/1301
Wheel base (mm) 2350
Mass Curb (kg) 1560 1535
Maximum speed (km / h) 280 288
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 5.3 4.9
Fuel consumption of medium (l / 100 km) 11.3 11.8
Price in Europe () 79 900 88 700
To enhance the safety of ride in the open car, both subjects turned out to be equipped with Porsche Side Impact Protection (POSIP), which includes separate oscillates for the head and Thorax for both front sedimons. Plus, of course, frontal full-size airbags. For a coup version - two heavy-duty steel pipes and two powerful rods located behind the rear seats.
 

A source: "Autopilot"