The Porsche 911 Carrera GTS with 408 HP offers all ingredients which belong to a real penalty. The family of not turbocharged six-cylinder engine gets interesting offspring with him.
Carrera. Once again the last its kind. As a next-generation models will be at the Frankfurt Motor Show in the autumn that will shake even on the very foundations of the Elfer history. It will be larger and have more wheelbase. The outcry of the rock-hard root client is thus anticipated. It has seen regularly heraufdammern the end of the classic Porsche when it came to the nitty-gritty.That was so and only right in the introduction of the power steering when the air cooling of the engine said adieu. The decline of the rear-engine Empire will not come, but nevertheless it can be a good idea, providing another Porsche 911 Carrera GTS purchase.
This new model is to combine all the virtues in themselves who made the 911 big. It is significantly stronger than the Carrera S, but it means uncompromising comfort concessions like the GT3 trimmed on sport. The Porsche is not the old recipe of Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, after a Spartan facilities the best is to draw more money from the willing customers. It is why there is him on request also as a convertible, and with the automated dual-clutch transmission rather a luxury Porsche. Visually the Porsche not, applies not fat 911 Carrera GTS - only right if he is so mausgrau painted like the test car.
That compared to the Carrera S in the rear section to 44 mm wider body of the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS fits harmoniously into the classic Elfer design and gives a special charm to the look in the mirror. Up to the wider track of the rear axle, also the chassis remains largely natural, which is why it must lose not many words in.
The comfort is marked by exemplary precision for a sports car of this amazingly good class, the driving behavior in the test. The boundary of the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS is located so far above that he is not reached in the road of reasonable drivers - philosophy that Porsche decades ago.
300 kW or 408 PS: historical figures in the coil mythology. So much was that one of Turbo now creating series 993. with two loaders aufgepustete 3, 1.6 liter engine in the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS the same performance only modified 200 Cm3 larger machine without charge, for with direct injection, adjustable camshaft, cylinder heads and a redesigned intake system.
107 HP per liter displacement in the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS are highly respectable for a naturally-aspirated engine, but they by no means lead to the description of a disguised race engine. The power curve is almost identical with that of 385 PS of strong Carrera to 6,500 rpm S engine, but it continues to rise there where the air is the weaker engine.
However, the torque is at lower revs up to 4,400 rpm clearly above the S engine, and so the Porsche remains 911 Carrera GTS if it must be for a very leisurely strollers which feels between 1,000 and 2,000 revolutions. This is particularly clear in connection with the dual-clutch transmission (PDK). In the normal mode of D, it turns up very early and can be by Tempo-30-Zonen roll the Porsche with 1,000 revolutions in fourth gear.
The other side of the coin is in position sport and at full speed to the fore. The measurements show it: the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS accelerates infernalisch, he sets to itself far above of 200 km/h in a manner that makes the achievement of the desired speed almost an arrival from operation. Drauftreten, the engine bites to the tachometer needle soaring high, and after a few strokes of the lash, the speedometer announced: objective achieved.
The loss of which carries the engine of the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS of his work is even more impressive than the sheer power. In the test, six cylinder and Boxer design provide for an impressive refinement. Even with over 7,500 rpm, the engine is running to vibration-free and silky as the proverbial sewing machine. Who leaves not the PDK control switching, but the Lord in the House wants to remain in the manual mode, does well to observe the Rev-counter. Otherwise, you arrive because acoustically not forewarned, fast in the delimiter.
But stop - there are also a small button on the center console of the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS. It is pressed, the engine can what brings closer the sound at that typical Elfer composition, which was so characteristic for the six-cylinder from Zuffenhausen less times over-regulated by rules in earlier, auspuffen free.
But the tubes remains discreet. A Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, it seems to announce, is a sports car for serious people who do not suffer from late female problems. Are they in may be that the subscriptions to the oil turns out surprisingly modest for a power pack that can be quickly at the request of 300 km/h.
Because this is rare in practice, high consumption values are the exception to 17 liters. In the regular everyday transport, you can with about 11 liters / 100 km do the test consumption of 13.9 litres is the result of a movement that leading Porsche driving not in the purely economically oriented absurdum. Make clear the progress: the same strong Turbo 1995 processed 16.9 liters in the combustion chambers. For this there would be no longer that five-star, who now must attach themselves the Carrera GTS on the chest.
