The 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S 992 Is the Newest Ultra 911

This is the new

2021

Porsche 911 Turbo S and it is the definitive Porsche 911. Now the 911

turbo

has always been the definitive 911, but this is the

newest

model based on the new generation

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911 992 and it is more definitive than ever and today. I'm going to take you on a tour of this car and show you what I mean, first a little overview. It is now generally accepted that the Porsche 911 is one of the greatest sports cars of all time. It has been on the market for decades. Everybody knows. that for years the 911

turbo

has been the top of the range 911 model, the flagship 911 that you got when you wanted the best, fastest and most expensive version, now in recent years gt cars have gained popularity, the gt2 , the gt3, the rs models. but if you want the best 911 without a tough sports car focused on a hard track, the 911 turbo still reigns supreme and this car, the turbo s, is the king of the 911 line, this is the

2021

model based on the new 911 from generation 992.

Now I've already reviewed the regular 992 911, but this one is a completely different animal: It uses a turbocharged six-cylinder engine that makes 640 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque. Porsche says it will go from 0 to 100 in 2.7 seconds on its way to the top. speed of 205 miles per hour of course it costs a fortune, actually the base price of the new 911 turbo s is around 205,000 or if you want to step up to the convertible model, the convertible like this, that figure goes up to around 218,000 and that's before options of course there will be an entry level turbo model soon but then you get less power and you're still looking at a starting price probably around 165-170k and today I'm going to show you what the 911 turbo s is like.

Make good on that awesome money first, I'll take you on a full tour of the new 911 Turbo S and show you all of its cool quirks and features, then I'll take it out on the road. and I will drive it and then give it an excellent rating. I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the new 911 turbo on the way in and that means starting with the door handle which is currently flush against the door right now and that's because the car is closed, if you want to remove the handle from the door to be able to pull it and open the door, you have to walk to the car with the key in your pocket and then put your hand in this little cavity and the door handle will come out, take another look, just put your hand in and you'll come out and then once you're outside just pull the door handle and you can open the door now in the other direction to get the door handle.

To get out you just take the key and press the unlock button and then the door handles will appear which means the car is unlocked and then you can reach in and open the door. Now the next interesting element is locking the car when the door is closed. the handles open like I said the car is unlocked but you can press the lock button on the key fob which will lock the doors and then the door handles will go back to their normal position flush with the position of the door but you also have another option if you want to lock the car and that is, if you have the key in your pocket, just touch the door handle and then the car will lock automatically and the door handles will automatically pull back to the house door and then we we move inward.

The car I want to start with the quirks and features of the interior with the roof because this is not just a 911 turbo s but rather a turbo s cabriolet, which means it has a convertible roof. Now to raise the roof, there is a button on the center console that has a picture of a 911 with the roof on, you press that button and then the roof goes into place and as you can see, it happens pretty quickly. This is a fast operating electric roof. I guess the theory is that they don't want you to turn it on. wet if you're driving with the roof down and a sudden storm comes up and it's the same situation if you want to lower the roof, go back to the center console, you have a button that represents a 911 with the roof down. pull that and then the roof starts going down again.

It's a very quick and very easy operation and you can do this while you're rolling, which means you don't have to come to a complete stop like on older convertibles, but there are a few other notable quirks of the roof and I want to start with the wind deflector. , go back to the center console and you can see just below the top power buttons that there is a button with a small shape that shows arrows pointing up or down. the wind deflector you press it and you can see that the wind deflector automatically extends at the rear to ensure that any wind that hits you while driving the car with the roof down is deflected and passes over the roof so that your hair doesn't get blown. it ruins everything while driving with the top down.

It's pretty standard for most convertibles to have a wind deflector, although it's usually not powered like this and the other interesting thing is when you put the wind deflector up. It takes up virtually the entire rear seat compartment, which means that if you have rear passengers and want to lower the roof, you'll probably ruin your hair since you won't be able to get the wind deflector in place with the rear passengers seated. Back there, but for me perhaps the most interesting feature of the entire upper situation are the windows. Now here are the power window switches and obviously you can use them to raise or lower the windows.

That's pretty standard, but there are more windows than just the front ones. Check this out, if you press this little button and it turns on, the window switches now control the rear windows, there are these little rear windows that can also go up or down and believe it or not, those windows will actually go in. useful, for example, if you want to position all the windows to eliminate as much wind as possible with the roof down, you will want to position those small rear windows to reduce the wind even more or if you want an open air feeling in this interior without lowering the roof, you can lower the front and rear windows and have a kind of open feeling, but keep the roof in place so you have those controls to adjust those little rear windows and, by the way, one more little rear window. item that you cannot place if the front windows are down.

Porsche doesn't want you to drive like an idiot with the rear windows up, but with the front windows down, so they make sure you have the front windows up if you want to roll up the rear windows, but still go back to the center console to see More interior quirks and features. In the middle you have a cup holder. You can see that it's a fairly large center cupholder, but you don't need to check this. To take it out you push this little tab on the front of the cup holder and you can lift it up and Porsche gives you an alternative to the cup holder.

This small storage compartment can be placed there instead of the cup holder if you prefer to have storage space. than the cupholder, you can just decide and change them to have a removable cupholder in the center and since a two-seat cupholder would probably cause a problem, there is a second one that is cleverly hidden on the passenger side of the dash. this little panel just push it and it extends and you can see it's the passenger side cup holder but when you don't want it in place you just push it in and then it's hidden from view and then there's another rather unusual element on the La This car's center console is the shifter that has garnered a lot of interest since the new 911 debuted a few months ago.

You can see that it is small and oddly shaped and people think it looks like a razor. The operation is actually quite intuitive. reverse to drive, you push it forward to reverse and if you want neutral it's somewhere in the middle so it's pretty standard stuff, it just looks quite strange, small and stubby of course next to the gear lever you can see you have two buttons there. p and m p obviously put the car in park when you're parked and then m puts the transmission in manual mode if you want to change gears yourself using the paddle shifters.

Now interestingly this strange shifter layout carries over to some other controls in this center area, for example the center control console has these five buttons which also share the shifter layout, it has the axle lifter On the left, the hazard lights in the middle, all of these buttons have a rather unusual shift-like theme. and it's the same story with the climate controls back on the center console, next to the shifter, you have these three different climate control switches that also mimic the look of the shifter, they change the temperature on the driver's side, on the passenger's side and the fan speed and you move them the same way you move the shifter, now talking about the climate controls, another item worth mentioning here is that around the control switches of climate in the form of a gear lever you have a kind of panel of buttons that you can see when the car is off, there is nothing there, but when you turn it on, these buttons light up and then allow you to choose between several different control functions of climate and when you press each climate control button on the panel, it turns on and confirms that you are.

I've pressed it so you know when the defroster is on and that kind of thing has a neat look and then a rather strange element in this interior, on the top of the dash in the middle, you have the clock and this is surely one of the strangest watches in the automotive industry because the time is shown on this small screen in the center and the hand that rotates is the seconds hand, so you have a giant seconds hand but a very small actual display of the time, which by the way Of course, that's what really interests you now.

The reason for this is that this is actually the sports stopwatch that shows your lap timer, but when you're not using it as a lap timer it works like a watch and that's how they turn it. on a watch with a small display of the time but a fairly pronounced display of what second is currently very useful and then we move on to the infotainment system. I have reviewed this system on the new 911 Carrera S and the new Cayenne. turbo but I want to highlight some highlights here, for example you can adjust the color of the interior ambient light.

You can choose from seven different options. My personal favorite is the Atlantis. Yes, that is the color I want my interior to be. Many cars allow you to choose. Ambient light color, although the most interesting thing here is that you can choose the amount of ambient light in several different places. You can choose four different points. Precisely how much ambient light is displayed to perfectly set the ambience inside your turbo. That said, there is one big drawback to the climate controls and infotainment system and that is the fact that I think they have simply integrated too many controls into the screen, for example you can't change where the air comes out without enter the screen and press them.

There are little icons here, which means you can't actually adjust the airflow direction of the climate control without going to the screen and going through the menus instead of just a simple control like basically every other car, and it's the Same with air conditioning. press this icon on the screen to confirm that you want action and not just the fan or air recirculation again, you have to enter a menu which is not ideal, those things should be on simple buttons that you can easily press and then we move on to the group of gauges where there is a lot to like, in the center you have the tachometer and then you have two screens, one on each side of the tank.

I really love it when the car is off course it just looks like it's floating there in place when the screens aren't on it looks really cool but even when the car and screens are on the tac it has a really cool look really cool, kind of old school vintage look amidst all this modern technology. I love it. Now, as for the displays in the gauge cluster, they offer different information. The screen on the right is the most configurable and you can use this little wheel on the steering wheel to scroll through its various screens and you can see what your tire will show. press your trip data, it eventually shows the map in full screen and all sorts of other relevant vehicle information integrated into this right screen, but the configurability of your screen doesn't stop there, press this little button on the steering wheel and then it changes screens basically Now this little wheel controls the left screen and you can see that it shows several different elements here, although there is less configurability because the speedometer is always fixed in place, but it's still pretty good configurability for these gauge cluster screens and Ilove seeing that old school tachometer. right in the middle and by the way, as I mentioned, I've covered this infotainment system before in other vehicles, but I want to say it's really good, overall, very fast, very touch-sensitive and relatively intuitive, you can also see. on the navigation screen very, very responsive, just as you would expect from any smartphone.

Tesla really had this

ultra

-sensitive center screen market cornered until a few years ago, but now all the automakers are moving quickly, but I want to go back anyway. On the steering wheel there are more controls worth highlighting, one being this little one. wheel that sticks out from the center of the steering wheel and that says driving mode, obviously you can use this to adjust the driving mode through several different settings: comfort, sport, individual wettest sport, you can choose. the little dial on the steering wheel the dial on the steering wheel also has another function, the middle one is a button, press it and it activates something called sport response which lasts for 20 seconds, you can see it in the gauge cluster, it actually counts down when you're on it. mode you have a short burst of power perfect for a pass on a race track or a highway intersection to go faster for a short time and another interesting button on the steering wheel worth mentioning on the left, it has this diamond button .

You also see the exact same button on the center control stack, another diamond there, so what is it? That Porsche calls it a hotkey and it's programmable. Basically, you can program it to be something you use frequently that doesn't have an easy button. For example, if you want to turn on the radio or a common navigation destination, you can do so. that and then it's there next to the configurable thumb buttons, a very good idea and I hope more automakers expand on this. It's nice to see two of them in this Porsche and then we move on to the back seats, occupying the back seats is pretty easy if you have the convertible model with the top down, all you have to do is pull this little loop here and push the seat forward, which I'll do and then you can get in the back because you've got all the headroom in the world.

Life is easy, although once you get back here there isn't much space you can see. I can't even hold the passenger seat in place. The 911's rear seats are still some of the smallest rear seats in the entire automotive industry, so then you. You're probably wondering why even offer rear seats, the answer is not, as some stupid urban legend says, to fool insurance companies into thinking you have a practical family car. No insurance company is going to think that a $220,000, 640-horsepower Porsche suddenly becomes There is a low risk of insuring it because it has back seats.

They're not that stupid. Instead, the rear seats are here for practical purposes, so you can use them in a pinch. Some people return children here or even adults for a short trip. make the car a lot more practical I just wouldn't want to be stuck here for too long as for the back seats there's really nothing interesting back here because there's really nothing back here at all probably the most interesting element of the back seat is that You can get rid of them if you pull up on this little tab, you can fold down the rear seats in the 911, which may seem strange because they don't fold into a cargo area, but it creates a relatively flat rear floor here where you can stick larger objects if you want to prevent something from sliding around and keep it in place and another interesting item directly behind the rear seats.

You can see these little cutouts on this red decorative piece. Those cutouts are for the explosive roll bars if this card senses that it's about to roll over, an explosive charge will fire these incredibly strong roll bars through this little cutout piece of trim and those roll bars are strong enough to hold the car if it rolls over, which in theory will provide head protection. occupants, that's why those little cutouts are there on this car and many other convertibles and next we move outside of the new 911, there are some interesting elements worth discussing, starting with the width that can be seen, the part The rear of this car is very wide, it is a little wider than its predecessor for an even more pronounced and aggressive appearance.

The width is good for a sports car. A wider track usually means better grip, better handling, better weight distribution, but you can't widen it too much because then it will start. to be cumbersome, this is the balance that Porsche has decided to achieve for the new model, by the way, an interesting detail for the car fans among us, the turn signal back here is orange, take a look at this, it is being lighting orange now, that may not seem like it. It's unusual, but all of Porsche's turn signals have been red for years and years and that will continue to be true on the new 911 turbo.

This is a German spec car and in Europe the turn signals have to be orange, but the US hasn't made that regulation, so turn. the signals can be red and I guess Porsche thinks it looks better so the US market turn signals are red and then another notable new element of the 911, you can no longer access your engine, you can't See it, you can't do anything with it, it's not. It's possible, but you can get closer. There's a little switch here in the driver's door jam area and you can look at it like a car with the rear open.

You pull that switch and it takes you here and then, as you can see if you look. You have access to some fluid caps here, you have oil and coolant in here and you can put things in if your car needs it, but there is no direct access to the engine and this is the closest thing to a hood you will find. On the new Porsche 911 this is actually called a service hatch and it is the same part that opens when you go to raise or lower the roof. I assume the reason it doesn't open back is that all turbo models have a fixed lid. rear spoiler, so that part had to stay in place and that meant this is all you get if you want to check the powertrain on your 911.

At least it says its 3.8 turbo to try to remind you that yes, the engine. is lurking out there somewhere and we finally move on to the front trunk of this car to open the front trunk. You pull this little switch on the driver's door jamb, near the rear service hatch switch, and that puts the front trunk in this position. then you come here and there's a little latch that you pull somewhere, we open it and then you have access to the front trunk, nothing particularly interesting here. I've shown you front trunks on a million Porsche models.

Anyway, you have a fairly large front trunk with decent cargo space, but otherwise there is no weirdness here and those are the quirks and features of the new 2021

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911 turbo s cabriolet, now it's time to take it out on the road and See how good the 911 turbo s drives. I've been driving this car for a while and I have to say this has to be one of the great sports cars of all time. If you look at it objectively it just really handles unreal I mean really really sharp incredibly good incredibly stable incredibly balanced tremendously firm the steering responds instantly just fantastic the acceleration is mind blowing mind blowing I mean eyes in the back of my head like I can't believe this is happening kind mind-blowing, then you also have the fact that it's not uncomfortable, you know GT cars are cool, but they're kind of a disaster and most people don't want that and the guys that have them are like, yeah, I'm better. than you because I can sit on a hard seat or you're just weird for wanting to put up with it you can have the same performance in terms of usability on the street in one of these and get a much more comfortable car and then there's the technology We have a lot of screens in all this car, we have a ton of the latest technology, blind spot monitoring and lane keep assist and obviously forward collision warning and braking and stock retrofit, blah blah blah, and this thing has it all, so Why wouldn't anyone want to have it? one, if you're in the market, you have this money, what are the reasons why you wouldn't want one? uh, and believe it or not, I actually think there are a couple of pretty legitimate reasons, one being the brand name and ultimately the look.

To most people this just looks like a 911 which is very much what it is just a souped up version of a 911 and with 220,000 options before you are playing against the amg gtr ferrari portofino you are entering mclaren territory , uh, even hurricanes. They start in that kind of range, the other big reason not to buy this car is that they will kill you on the resale value of the GT3, the GT2, the GT2 RS, as much as those cars are hard to drive, uncomfortable and overpowered. On top of that with their crazy wings, they don't lose much value and the Porsche 911 turbo builds a lot of them, they lose value and they lose value quite substantially, but if you're looking for probably the best sports car for the daily driver, it's really hard to argue against it. from this, you get the best handling, the best performance of any vehicle, it's not as flashy as a ferrari or a mclaren, which has its disadvantages at this price, that you only get a porsche, but the advantage is that you don't have you don't have to worry so much about it when you park it, you don't have to think all the time, it's kind of damaging, it attracts too much attention, it sends the wrong message to customers and employees, but in reality, this car is so good in so many ways. it drives so well it feels so good it handles well it's just excellent it's a really excellent car and in terms of an all-round car the 911 turbo has always been the best and the

newest

one seems to still end and that's the porsche 911 turbo s cabriolet 2021 now I'm not as much of a fan of all porsche gt models as many other car enthusiasts.

I'm getting tired of the ever-growing, bigger wings and look-at-me details. And the driving experience really tough for me, this is still the ultimate Porsche 911, just be prepared to pay a lot for it and now it's time to give the new 911 turbo s a Doug score, starting with the weekend categories and designing the look of the new 911 turbo. Great, but it's still a 911 e and gets a 7 out of 10. Acceleration from 0 to 60 is less than 3 seconds, so it gets a 10 out of 10. Handling is very precise, but not at the level of the best supercars exotics and gets an 8 out of 10.

The fun factor is great, but not just at the level of the best exotics, it's too good without as much sense of occasion and gets an 8 out of 10. The fun factor is high, but it same for the majority. People, this is still a 911, it does well but gets a 7 out of 10 for an overall weekend score of 40 out of 50. Next up are the daily categories and features, it's better equipped than most cars like this and It gets a 7 out of 10. The comfort is also better than average and gets a 5 out of 10. The quality is tremendously high both in terms of materials and reliability and gets an 8 out of 10.

The practicality is better than average for a car of this level of performance given the rear seats and ease of use, it gets a value of three out of ten, it's just average, it's a great car, but really expensive and will lose value quickly, it gets a 6 out of 10 for a score daily total of 29 out of 50. Added to the excavated score is 69 out of 100, which places it here against exotic supercars. The 911 turbo is the odd one out here. It gets a better daily score than any of these cars. Ferrari Lamborghini McLaren Audi R8, but it gets a Worst Weekend Score, proving that this really is the everyday usable supercar and for people who want it, it's perfect.