Test Drive Porsche 911 Turbo 997 since 2009 coupe
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A wave of updates of 911 x Porsche covered both Turbo. Consumption less, the power is greater, the acceleration time is even less, the maximum speed is even more numbers, the numbers they are just crazy, these numbers, if they snatch them out of the table and attach to the body: you know what happens when you shoot until the first hundred for 3,4 seconds? And I do not know, but I will tell about 3.2 s. Yes, the numbers themselves are good, stand quite a few and are rare, but the focus of the new Turbo is not in them. His magic is that they are sold separately from hemorrhoids, hymorite and cod in the ears.
Of course, Porsche would not be Porsche, if with all the convenience and pleasure, dynamics and speed would not be outstanding
Supercar is uncomfortable. Supercar then only to brag. In the supercar, it is important how much he will give and for how much will it be raft to soak the noses, and only. Popular view, right? Popular. Moreover, justified for a look at a lot of fast cars with half ignorant drivers of Moscow reality. It is inconvenient to climb, to sit dark, look like through the keyhole, ride shake, refuel expensive, leave dumb: what you need to have complexes to pay for them, because it's not counting money. Yes that's right. But only in relation to manufacturers and drivers, which do not correspond to the space level of the pair-triple of companies that are really able to produce real supercars. Not plastic crafts with muscles who are drawn in attempts to catch up with rivals when starting from the traffic light, to immediately drive off to the clinic and to the service painfully prepare the spine and Cardan to the new act of retaliation, and cars with a capital letter A.
The most important thing for Porsche has been the man and his common sense from the very beginning: convenience and pleasure, and not the feats for the sake of numbers
Porsche is the first among the first in this alphabet. Do you know why classic Porsche was with air cooling? And why the rear arrangement of the 911s? How much and for how much there is nothing here: this is all so that the driver in the winter did not need to run in the morning with a bucket of boiling water, and to him, man, it was spacious and comfortable even in a sports car. The most important thing for Porsche was the man and his common sense from the very beginning: convenience and pleasure, and not the feats for the sake of numbers. And only then dynamics and speed. Of course, Porsche would not be Porsche if, with all the convenience and pleasure, the dynamics and speed would not be outstanding. Combine this top pilot for engineers and tests. Naturally, it does not succeed in anyone better than the Porsche company, built not around the conveyor and cash register, but around Kulman and the landfill.
The new steering wheel with traditional gear shift petals is made as they say to Porsche, in favor of experts, and not to users. Let it be. And let the Turbo do not have to use them, because the box with a powerful engine work so that there is nothing to add from itself. However, these petals are very comfortable and, undoubtedly, in the future will delight users of less powerful versions of Porsche
The new Turbo added horses, and now there are 500 of them. Torque is 650 nm, and in Overbust mode all 700. Normal indicators of a modern supercar? Yes. But beyond the publicly available, that thanks to the PDK transmission, which was taught to work with such a gigantic moment, Porsche declares 3.4 seconds to hundreds. And the car during our test in Portugal shows incredible 3.2! Monstrous, absolutely unreal numbers. I am a professional pilot and accustomed to fast cars, but when a colleague sitting behind the wheel, it makes it a passenger with you, then without any epithets and other poetic rubbing to you, a completely healthy sports man, becomes kehelbecker. Something shifted inside: you absorb a strange mixture of ambiguous sensations and desire to survive them again. Outside the framework of the publicly available and the fact that the start in the Lound control mode is not (in contrast to all other than Porsche), something from the row of the mode, after which the clutch should be studied, check the oil and estimate the amount that will have to be left on the service. It was not specifically cast on slaughter of demonstration cars: with me a dozen Russian journalists did a hundred for 3.2 s and 200 for 11 with something there on the very Turbe, on which I left the entire test drive before and after a visit to the track. And before and after our group, another 14 groups from around the world rode this car. And nothing, it just works: imbued with the approach to reliability and convenience.
She doesn't need a turbo-timer, like, for example, other characters, which could put themselves in one context with Porsche, and in fact lively in another galaxy and other century: a unique turbine with a variable geometry does not require that it is worn with it, Like a written tube. There is no even account (!) Differences in handling the Porsche Turbo supercam from handling VW Golf. In addition, Porsche is also more reliable.
The new full drive system allows a skillful pilot to get enough to each turn of the steering wheel and pressing the gas on the track or a slamming path. She literally pushes the muzzle of the 911st insurgent by turning when you are on the arc. PASM shock absorbers together with active (!) Engine supports are able to plunge into the shock of who at least understands something in the price and value of innovation. And they simply will not notice the one who does not understand. I will not notice because in Turbo, one of the living units of road vehicles that normally feel on the track, there is no discomfort characteristic of the highest characteristics. There is a pleasant rigidity that gives to understand that under you is not Daewa Kalos, but Nain Elevel, but there is no discomfort even on disgusting roads and a blocking. The operation of the suspension and the active engine supports so skillfully breed the character and frequency of body vibrations with unpleasant and harmful human body, which in terms of comfort on bad roads, this supercar exceeds the utilitarian golf class machines on soft suspensions. This is what no one can, except Porsche, be the fastest, most comfortable and most reliable at the same time. But there are still sounds, there is an interior, there are pleasures from driving slowly, there is still I am absolutely sure that today the new 911 Turbo is the most perfect car in the world.
P.S.
Many experts, and I am among them, many times noted an uncomfortable gear shift system on the steering wheel Porsche. Going to meet our wishes, we were given a steering wheel with traditional stealing petals, and I never (!) They did not take advantage. In Turbo, they are not needed at all, since the regiment of the moment the engine is so wide, the response is linear and instantaneous, and the switching of PDK is so fast and smooth, that manually switching is not needed even on the track, even when you try to install a circle record.
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