After two seconds of this footage, we can rest assured knowing that there's another screaming atmospheric in the upcoming GT range. It retains the barking motor and the urgency it's expected to have, but it's built upon a completely new platform and brings a slew of new additions to keep the intensity growing—something to distract the user from its …
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This Poet Isolates the Essence of the Boxster GTS 4.0
Every car, regardless of its level of focus, is at its best in a very specific environment. Whereas the Cayman GTS 4.0 we recently featured was sampled on a flat, fast, and challenging circuit, this example of its open-air counterpart is rightly tested on a bumpy backroad flanked with trees. With the lanky, eloquent, and always captivating Henry …
Continue to the full articleThe 2020 Porsche Macan GTS Is Quite A Remarkable Thing
If you give a gorgeous Miami Blue Macan GTS to Henry Catchpole in Portugal, you're going to end up with an edifying and insightful video about the car in question, and because the Carfection crew is so good, it'll have delightful visuals and editing to boot. The real question here is whether or not the new Macan GTS is as good as the old one was. …
Continue to the full articleRide Onboard With The Legendary Walter Rohrl As He Puts A 718 Cayman GT4 Through Its Paces
Though he's now a septuagenarian, Walter Rohrl hasn't slowed down much. He's as wiry as he was in his prime, and he still takes every outing on track—even one with a passenger sitting shotgun—very seriously. Yes, a smile occasionally breaks across his stern visage, but his focus never fades. His famously precise driving is the result of five …
Continue to the full articleComparing the 992 Carrera S Against a Rawer Rival
While its undoubtedly true the latest iterations of the Carrera have softened their image, expanded their midsection, and grown more commercially appealing, they still retain a level of performance that wows the enthusiast. Especially when considering the gains brought by modern turbocharging and PDK gearboxes, there's not much the typical user is …
Continue to the full articleThe Panamera Turbo S e-Hybrid Contains A Wonderful Dichotomy
Porsche's big wagon has nearly 700 horsepower, it'll go nearly 200 miles per hour, and it weighs more than 5000 pounds. Somehow it is big and comfortable but also incredibly sporty. Somehow it manages to dawdle around in silent electric-only mode, then seconds later crank up a huge turbocharged V8 when you swap to Sport mode. It can move five …
Continue to the full articleSeeking The Greatest Road In The World In A Porsche 718 Cayman GTS
The section of C-28 highway, known as 'Puerto De La Bonaigua' is a sinewy ribbon of road on the Spanish side of the border between France and Spain. Having lived in Spain myself for a while, I have been on some pretty amazing mountain roads, and find it not difficult to believe that this one might be an incredible route. Greatest in the world is …
Continue to the full articleMaking The Analog Driver’s Case For Porsche’s Carrera T
The 991 Carrera T is, in a way, the anti-Porsche, or perhaps recalls the Porsche that Porsche used to be. As the company's sports car line continually focuses on quicker lap times at the expense of driver engagement, and the company's non-sports cars become ever more the focus of the sales floor, the Carrera T is anti-thematic for the brand in a …
Continue to the full articleWhat Makes a Grand Tourer? Panamera Turbo vs. DB11 vs. McLaren 570GT
If you asked me yesterday which Porsche was the brand's greatest Grand Touring car, I would have said "928 GT." In fact, I probably would have gotten more specific and said "928 GT in black with grey leather and dual zone AC." Today, however, the nature of grand touring has changed. Traditional GT cars like the Aston Martin DB11 and Jaguar F-Type …
Continue to the full articleThis Is What It’s Like To Drive Porsche’s 911R At 200MPH!
Porsche's newest high-performance driving experience, the 911R, doesn't have a rear wing, or any other kind of easily visible downforce-creating device, on the back. So how can it possibly manage high speeds without becoming scary to drive? How does the 911R keep its composure during high speed curves or rapid transition lane changes? When the …
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