Test drive Porsche 911 Carrera 4 997 2005 - 2008 coupe
Bird of youth
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To that guarantee-a badge for the start of Carrera 4s Cabrio in the Bensberg Palace of Bergish-Gladbach. And also - fourteen pars built in two rows on the paths of the palace in anticipation of the riders.
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Apparently, the Stuttgart organizers decided, not to say unnecessary words, to immediately enclose the car public as the quality of the goods - an elegant plan, like a stone tied to a stick that we were tapped on the head (for the dark: this is a quote from O'Genry).
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So that no one has illusions: 911 Carrera 4s Cabriolet is equipped with a 3.8-liter engine that has a capacity of 355 horses and disperses the car to a hundred in 4.7 seconds. The largest speed measured on the track is 288 km/h. But, unlike other countries, in Germany you can ride in the same way in some areas of civilian highways. At the same time, the organizers cynically advised us all, despite the speed regimes, to follow road rules.
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We are leaving the city of Bensberg, which, according to the administrative reform of 1974, merged with Bergish-Gladbach together, and we have an option to slightly drive along the A4 federal highway. What we use.
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Ahead of us are colleagues from Spain - now there is an opportunity to consider the stern of the new flagship of Porsche. This battleship has an amazingly muscular ass. Indeed, the contours around the rear wheels are 4.4 cm wider than the front -wheel drive models 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, which, of course, are quite known to autopilot readers and simply fans of the legendary machine. Oksana Hartonyuk (Porsche-Rush), who is sitting on the right, says that the general view of the new machine is considered muscular, and not just the 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 legs. It seems to us that the word cat is already tightly busy with another chic brand of car.
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For a press conference, at which only one question was raised and then in Spanish, dinner began. He was worthy of the price category of the new model. And the wine was this: 2004 Le Domaine de Menard Cote de Gascogne and 2003 BellerChe Cote du Rhone M.Chapoutier. Still, the Schloss Bensberg Hotel consists in a very decent Leading Hotels of the World association.
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On the second day after long conversations under a cigar about the fate of empires, it turned out that the rain only intensified, and now there could be no talk of an open roof. This time we got a red Carrera with a 3.6-liter engine. It accelerates a little slower, but the body feels this difference without instrumental control not very clearly. And here are other seats, as it seemed to us after much more steep by 3.8 liters. This time, the track is designed to pass in two hours - 120.9 km. It includes a section of an autobahn, hilly serpentines, small roads in dark forests through Engelskirhen, Marienheida, Kyurten and Lindlar. Both on a wet carbon car, and on narrow wet paths, the car behaves perfectly, despite the fact that its rear wheels are slightly already than that of 4s, and have size 295/35 ZR 18.
And in terms of applied linguistics - it seemed to us funny that in the Russian language Carrera is, of course, she, while the manufacturer calls her Brother 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 (cubic meter) 3596 3824
Power (L.S. at rpm) 325 at 6800 355 at 6600
Moment (Nm at rpm) 370 at 4250 400 at 4600
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed mechanical
Length/width/height (mm) 4427/1852/1311 4427/1852/1301
Wheel base (mm) 2350
Equipped mass (kg) 1560 1535
Maximum speed (km/h) 280 288
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 5.3 4.9
Fuel consumption average (l/100 km) 11.3 11.8
Price in Europe () 79 900 88 700
To increase the safety of driving in an open car, both subjects were equipped with the Porsche Side Impact Protection (Posip), which includes separate airbs for the head and Thorax for both front riders. Plus, of course, the front full -size airbags. For a coup version - two super -strength steel pipes and two powerful rods located behind the rear seats.
Source: "Autopilot"