2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S vs Audi R8 V10 Decennium // DRAG RACE, ROAD & TRACK REVIEW

What the hell, James, that's it, that's it, cars aren't faster than this? You're looking at the accelerator house. I'm Thomas and I'm James, and these are two of the fastest, quickest, best, most days, you name the superlative he has. There are cars in the world right now and today is particularly exciting because we have teamed up with omaze to give away another special r8 that is in a mijello blue limited edition. We'll talk more about it at the end, but all you need to know. Now go to omaze.com r8 and make a donation for your chance to win.

The best part is that your participation goes to help a great cause. It all started with this one, the 930

turbo

911 you saw in the intro, a car that was known to occasionally spit a unknowingly. off-

road

driver driven by a wave of unsuspecting and violent momentum, fortunately Porsche being Porsche took the formula of a refined

turbo

charged supercar and, over the decades, modified it, perfected it, the result was a 640 horsepower twin turbo of power with flat-six all-wheel drive. weapon that is possibly the quintessential everyday supercar in the world, the 992 turbo s and we say possibly because the

audi

r8 exists for now because the r8 and its v10 will soon stop being manufactured, which is a shame because it also fights for the title of most livable supercar however this is not a normal r8 it is the decade edition celebrating 10 years of

audi

v10 fitted to the r8 it is essentially a v10 performance version with some extra fancy stuff and it is still not as expensive as the 265,000 Canadians today. 911 turbo s, let's do it, we do car

review

s,

track

testing and a lot of time, so subscribe and ring the bell, maximum daily performance, there are a lot of things that come into play, so even though the 911 turbo s is absolute nuts when it comes to speed, i think the r8 has a fighting chance because speed is skin deep and there's more to it than that, you know, it looks good, that's pretty skin deep, but i'm aiming for this one because listen, okay, James gave me the 911 because to be honest I'm not entirely sold on turbocharged 911s, I think they're better off being a little slower, a little worse and a little more naturally aspirated, but it's like me saying I don't like poutine without going to Quebec and trying the proper version because that's what it is in turbocharged 911 terms, this is proper gravy and cheese curds on a bed of crispy 911 fries.

From an everyday livability perspective on normal mode, it's smooth, it's predictable, it's comfortable, maybe there's a little bit of

road

noise and there's a little bit of shaking over the bumps, but that's because when you put it in sport mode and it can also do this, Whatever kind of maneuver you make in traffic, this car will let you do it the way you think. Pick something you want to do and the car will let you do it in any corner, at any speed, at any time and it just crushes it, it's crazy and I've never been in a car so fast where visibility, usability and ergonomics are not engaged and you can also store stuff in the back from an everyday livability perspective this car with that ridiculous engine behind me is just a crazy combination okay we'll behave for a minute comfort mode okay Thomas was talking. about the handling and we have driven both today and we are testing them as much as we can and this is without a doubt a better car than the 911, it is more flexible, you won't apologize as much to your passenger. for the shakes and bumps and for the most part it's quieter here until you do that because where the 911 and the r8 differ hugely is in my foot, I have a Lamborghini activation pedal that when applied activates the V10 that screams behind me, in fact, the only way it could be better is if I was in the spider and some might see it differently, but one of my favorite things about the R8 and what makes it so great is that It has this incredible ability to become just a car that you could fool yourself in the city or on the highway into thinking this is just an Audi TT or even an Audi A4.

He is calm and serene. The only question is: if this is the winner on the road in terms of comfort, can it come to life when pushed? To their limits, we can't really achieve that legally on the road, so we're going to go to the

track

and find out and, as usual, we're not going to

drag

race

them. I'll give it to you, it looks good. The car doesn't matter, although it's not just about tomorrow being great, it's like Carson, yeah, it's just part of the recipe, cars are more than the sum of their parts sometimes and you know, this is, I mean , that thing is going down the strip faster. faster than that oh God it hurts oh my face is distorting oh it's gone it's gone oh wow that

porsche

is fast oh number over 200 at the finish line there it's okay they made a quick call alarming that's the word alarming this is felt fast like Very few cars can make the performance of an audi r8 v10 slow.

I don't even know where you were. You were completely behind me. Yes, you look very good. Sounds really good. This car is completely crazy. It does not make any sense. This is how a turbo works. It should be that I'm sweating, I'm sweating now and it's cold today, well fortunately we have the opportunity to test these cars to the limit today, on track time, the last time we were on this track in an audi was the rs6 and In fact on the Audi website it says that the Audi RS6 has almost 600 horsepower. I know you're thinking almost 600, how can it be almost 600? because it's not as much as 600 and they're trying to avoid saying 5.

One nice thing is that this is over 600 and it has a little button down here with a

race

flag and when I press it I go into performance mode and the performance it has on North America gets 602 horsepower, which is 38 less than that turbo S, but thanks to no turbochargers, its 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 absolutely moans and it's just as easy to manage that power on the track as it is on the road. Thanks to its seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, which is a fun transmission, the upshifts are just as aggressive if you let it. to mark otherwise it's actually very smooth and the engine oh the engine don't get me wrong I have a lot of love for the 911s flat 6.

For the naturally aspirated v10 I mean this car almost had it in the bag of the Start because of that typical Audi fashion steering, light and precise, perhaps too light even in the highest performance mode, but that precision, I have said before, created by archers, these things and the predictability of the power due to that natural aspiration, I stay high in the revs. I put my foot down, it put a smile on my face. A little understeer in the mid engine. There is a reason why this engine is also in a Lamborghini and there is a reason why this version of the decade celebrates 10 years because it really is something to celebrate eight and a half. thousand rpm the virtual gauge cluster flashes every time i need to change the suspension on this is so compliant this is a bumpy track we have a bumpy track and this car just takes it like a boss you think it was good on the road it should look here, as far as sports cars go, it's obviously very accurate, I said I've tracked that 911 and this isn't as buttoned down, it's a little bit softer, right?

It's not a complete track car in that way. The 911 feels like with its suspension it definitely leans more towards the road, so if that's where your priorities lie, it'll do it in spades, and yet if you want to take it to the race track so you can experience it at the speeds that is able to achieve. can and by the way I'm talking over 200 miles per hour this car can do it so the 911 might be faster but this is just as fast and thanks to the engine you can experience more without going ten tenths yes If it were me, I think I'd probably go for the Spider.

I don't need to see a clue in this. I just need to see a sunny day and the roof down and that engine closer to us because when we were driving the Lamborghini Huracan Spider. came to life what car what car okay, as expected, this car is ridiculously stupid, incredibly impossible to understand, fast in a straight line, it's probably the fastest car I've ever driven in third fourth, every gear feels the same, but that's not really what I'm worried about, you see, the thing is, there's more to a car than just setting ridiculous quarter-mile times, especially in a sports car, and on the road anyway, this thing is too silent, it's too easy, it doesn't scare you, it doesn't make you. "Things are difficult, it doesn't inspire you to be a better driver, it just does everything for you, you can hardly make a mistake, that's why we're on a track because I want to know if I turn everything off." We are in sport plus mode, we are shifting manually, the pdk by the way is crazy, what does this car do?

Can you light my socks on? The rear engine 911 is a little different than what I'm used to, so there goes the boy, oh yeah. Holy shit, the G forces are absolutely absurd and you turn in and wait for the rear to turn and you only get a little bit of that push from the rear engine. I like that 3.8 liter flat 6 biturbo engine, it's ridiculous, there you go. There's actually quite a bit of turbo lag, don't let anyone tell you there's no turbo lag on this, but you know, that 930 turbo we drove in that intro, this reminds me of that because it did exactly the same thing back then. that does it now it's like oh okay okay and then we don't talk much about fractions in the throttle housing nine tenths ten tenths eleven tenths what does that mean that means to get excitement out of this car that I'm driving is ten tenths of the absolute limit of what this car can do and to be completely honest with you it's taking every ounce of skill I have because this car is completely tame until it's not, oh my god it's kind of like John Wick, the subtle calm keeps it together himself doesn't bother anyone, but if you piss him off he'll take out an entire section of the mafia, throw him away the harder I push the more the car rewards me and when you do it right you use up the mass of the engine behind it. you and install it on a fuel turbocharged engine, it really becomes a real sports car, the problem is that I had to drive it like this to really enjoy it on the road, it is too good and the engine, although powerful, sounds like an angry vacuum cleaner , which is Why do I think the car for me is still the GT3?

What makes Porsche good is not simply speed. What makes Porsche good is the interesting balance of the chassis and the potential that somewhere in the lineup there is a car with an engine that can doom. It almost brings tears to your eyes and that's what the GT3 is and I can't wait to drive the 992 GT3 like the previous generation drove. It's incredible and I think with this chassis, this interior, these skills and these capabilities in a naturally aspirated car. high revving flat six, yes that's where I'm at so don't get me wrong the 992 turbo s is an absolutely incredible engineering masterpiece, it's technically perfect in every way but I don't think it's for me so Thomas jumped into the Audi to see if that was more his style as he gave the Porsche a quick blast before stopping us to talk about styling.

It's ridiculously fast, isn't it ridiculous? It's so stupid. I love it. It just breaks the physics it creates. G forces it creates, just, yeah, I can't believe how fast it is, it's still very fast, it looks like it should be fast, it doesn't really look like a supercar, you know, other than the admission, obviously, yeah, we'll get it. to the aesthetic stuff, but I mean this is fine, I'd rather have this than Huracán, I honestly think, ah, this is smoother, it's more Audi-like than I thought it would be on the track, it didn't come to life, I mean. the engine is there but there is a smoothness and I think that's where the hurricane wins I would find the money if you already give me no I disagree because I don't think the hurricane is really that exciting on the track they have the same type of note of engine and both are just a kind of audis, so for me this with the habitability of whatever and the interior space is very nice, it is very livable, it is very however when it comes to the habitability it absolutely wins absolutely we just Saying the ride on this is the ride is better but there's more to it than just the ride James I have a demo I've planned okay you're ready would you mind opening the front of the 911 for me I feel like it's a dirty assistant right now, yeah, you're okay, here we go, you're ready, oh, it's transmitted, I've got it, I've got it, I have a very important point to make, we're in the middle of a field, this is it.

Standard carry-on luggage, okay, yes, it fits, yes, but wait, what are you complaining about? I complain about the fact that if you have a friend, a spouse, or anyone else who is interested in traveling with you, I have never done it. I ran into that problem, yes, I see it will still fit, no, yes, no, I see what you mean and look at this now, is it fair?, okay, yes, that's a minimal, minimal difference, and there are back seats and there is actually spacebehind the seats, yes, yes, but. but what there is no rear, can you see your engine?

What are you talking about? Can you see your engine? What does that mean? Oh oh yeah fisturize and this also opens up so you can see it even better than through the glass which is so cool. I know, I know, there's a wing and stuff and it's the turbo, but it's covered in matte bronze that's not gold, it's matte bronze, not bronze because it's the cenium version, the

decennium

, so what does the decade? Well, let me take you. 10 years ago there is no audio bailey with elTails they are celebrating v10 so they made a special edition they made 222 decades okay and this is number 82 and in fact when you open the door it shows on the floor the decade number that is, oh really, so it has these. 20 years old as a night, yes it has these 20 inch milled wheels, although yes they match the engine balls, there are some things like this, the side skirts and this front spoiler are black, this is carbon fiber and more important than that. every country that got them, I think there's like 15 in Canada, yeah, it's a specific color, so yeah, like in the United States, that's it.

They are all black myths, but in Canada we have gray kamora. I like this because there's like a red metal flake on it. paint, yeah, it's very nice, I think in terms of the color play, the Porsche is doing quite well, I mean, it's chalky, I love it, I'm sorry, so chalky, chalky, it's like the poshest British accent and then all of a sudden you put on the peak blinders on the word chuck oh it's shocking how the queen said you're the chalk no i think it's a hot color okay i don't know so yeah supercardity okay, Appearance is important for the everyday supercar, yes, which one looks better? like a supercar, this one looks more like a supercar, it absolutely looks more like a supercar, although I will say that there are aspects of this design that I don't really like, I don't like this type of things like the ventilation, I thought about the previous one gen r8 looked better than this one and i think as a silhouette fit the 911 looks better, however this one wins because of the supercar flash stuff in the descenium version it has the wheels it has carbon fiber it has the blue it has something serious oh cool yeah no this wins in terms of presence for money well the 911 is the most covert supercar yeah you don't know why because it looks like any other 911 but we said look at the entry on the more covert side top of the entrance, yes.

The intake means it's a turbo, which means, as the Italians say, it's a spicy meatball. I think it's a spicy meatball. I was trying to avoid that intake means you don't mess with that Porsche, yeah, right? We will lose when we discover the interiors, yes, it is a supercar inside, the 911, no, yes, so this is a 992 interior, it is not a supercar, but it is so clean that it is not much different from a normal Carrera. Well, that's not true. There are some. things for example you get this really cool center stud it says turbo s and you know there's the chrome yeah but remind you I like the white label I like it I think it goes really well with the white sport chrono club yeah exactly.

Well, there are some fun things and we've pointed this out in other Porsche

review

s, but for people who have never seen this review before, I should point out that no matter where you put the steering wheel, you can't see. the exterior gauges james i just don't understand this concept i feel like i'm missing something you need it in the spirit of

porsche

it's a body it's a body system i need you yeah okay so oh so the turbo is there that's cool right, that's an experience, that's an option, I don't know if I would spend it, that's $380 you would spend money on, I would spend money on that because that's right, they look great, I've seen more expensive crests that are worse than this, that makes sense yeah I would choose them because they look fantastic speaking of options here's an interesting one everyone in the 992 generation hates this little pdk gear selector right because the standard version looks like a leg shaver right yeah , this. one is upgraded for $850 milled aluminum it's right here it's for speed it's for speed I don't care about this because it's automatic what were the alternative buttons well it's funny because in the 992 gt3 they've gone to a gear selector he complained quite a bit but on the 902 g3 it looks like a manual gear shift, yes no exactly, there are people complaining about this stupid little thing.

Personally I think it doesn't have enough dynamism to be how much money is this car this is open at 260. 260 dollars is Germanic it's dramatic it's supposed to be oh yes from a system oh it's very good the seat fits incredible the driving position is incredible, I like it, it's all so well done, it's so strong, those back seats are playing with the definition seats, yes, but they flatten out so you can store things in there, so it becomes this, it becomes a huge cavernous. Storage space is fine, so what's up? Don't listen in terms of usability.

I think this just wins over the r8. But should we absolutely go? Yes, but I don't think I win at flirting. Well, let's see, talk about cavernous storage. I think that's boom, okay, there's nothing there, no, just forget it, admit it, this is more of a supercar cabin, this is more of an occasion like looking at the roof here with the seams, oh, this is so great, it's so low, this is this. it's cheating a little bit because it's got some detenio stuff on it, okay, so it's got the cenio badge there, it's got copper stitching here, you know, on all the sides, it's got this there, a midday leather marker here, yeah sure i don't think i would go for the descendium unless you are in love with the idea and obviously they are already sold out but if you were to buy a performance r8 v10 it would end up being cheaper than the 911 um from here only from here i would take this one over the 911.

I think this is much more exciting as the steering wheel is a full supercar, these hang down, like trim things, this is the dashboard layout, I was wondering where are you going to name them, yeah well I didn't have a proboscis is what I usually use and that's the word you said that doesn't exist and it exists by the way I remember saying who's going to believe you um okay calm down fiber is covering the cabinets I think it's very good no, actually the seats are very comfortable and most importantly this is a daily supercar test there is a lot of space here yes we spent time in the hurricane and when you are in the hurricane you feel like this well the hurricane spider on the top of this windshield It's at eye level so you have to go like this to see, yeah, or a crowd, I'll be honest, no, this is like there are tons of rooms, you could easily be six feet tall and sit in an R8.

Well, interestingly, now there's the Audi. The new Aldi's are obsessed with screens, everything is a screen and yes it's strange being in one like this, yes well I mean give them time, it's just the virtual booth next, nothing's happening down here, yes, No, I know, this is very clean and very. simple, I like it a lot and there is no shaver gear lever, yes, yes, which does not attract them. This is strange, although true, because this is what you use to control, but then it controls it as opposed to the screen that is in the center here on the right, yeah. but you, yes, exactly, there is no central, there is no central screen, yes, so the Apple Carplay appears here, yes, of course, which is a little strange but also cool at the same time, it is a new vision, it is a new position, no, there is not much else to do.

Let's say here, can I do a special thank you? Well, the feeling you get, yes, with the way this is driver-focused, I think the new Corvette C8 has done very well to not imitate, but just like its own brand for a much cheaper price. I think the C8 deserves recognition, I absolutely agree and in terms of what you get for a dollar in terms of livability, the C8 is up there if you study the finish of the CA and the stitching, it doesn't come close, no. No, no, but I mean, yes, I agree that the C8 is definitely a card to consider honestly, but the thing is, most people who buy them don't buy C8s, right?

No, no, they don't consider it, this is the last thing. Yes, these are the best daily supercars and should we come to a conclusion and find out which one we would choose? Yes, okay, okay, after the day Thomas and I came to an agreement if we were forced to ignore the much cheaper but still incredible 911 Carrera S and the regular one. r8 v10, which is almost all everyday sports cars, our choice between these two is the more charismatic and characterful r8 v10 performance, but we would both be wrong, after all, it was a quest to find the ultimate new performance card that you I can still drive every day at this price range if you want the last word in performance technology, visibility, practicality and total superiority on the road, it's the 911 turbo s, despite our personal preferences, it's the performance car ultimate diary, thanks for watching and if you share our I love the v10 that screams and you like one in your entry, then go to omaze.com r8 and enter for a chance to win a new 15 mijello blue audi r8 and 20,000 us, not only your entries give you a chance to win.

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