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Oh yes, there"s another Porsche 911 variant to get your head around. The geeks will be one step ahead already. The new 911 Carrera T riffs unashamedly off the glorious 911 T of the Sixties, and it"s back to add complexity to an already not-simple line-up of cars.The T stands for Touring, which might suggest this is a 911 that"s gone plush. Cruise, leather, nice auto gearbox um, nope. None of those.Instead, it"s an old-school lightweight special. A 911 R for the (relative) masses. It"s based on the bog-standard 911 Carrera, using the same 365bhp 3-litre turbo flat-six engine driving only its rear wheels.But it does so through sharper componentry. There"s a standard mechanical diff, while the seven-speed manual gearbox not only gets shorter ratios, but a shorter lever. The already delightful shift ought to be mesmerisingly good now.Porsche has saved 20kg over a standard 911 Carrera by throwing out lots of sound insulation alongside the back seats, fitting thinner glass at the rear, and making the radio, sat nav and phone connectivity optional (albeit at no cost). Perhaps the modern definition of Touring" is driving round and round in circles under a load of road noiseAnyhow, it now weighs 1,425kg, and has shaved a tenth from the Carrera"s 0-62mph time, at 4.5sec. You can slice that more dramatically (down to 4.2sec) by speccing the PDK paddleshifter, but you"d be undoing all the hard work that"s gone into its more snickety manual. So don"t.
Date written: 22 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9656
Oh yes, there"s another Porsche 911 variant to get your head around. The geeks will be one step ahead already. The new 911 Carrera T riffs unashamedly off the glorious 911 T of the Sixties, and it"s back to add complexity to an already not-simple line-up of cars.The T stands for Touring, which might suggest this is a 911 that"s gone plush. Cruise, leather, nice auto gearbox um, nope. None of those.Instead, it"s an old-school lightweight special. A 911 R for the (relative) masses. It"s based on the bog-standard 911 Carrera, using the same 365bhp 3-litre turbo flat-six engine driving only its rear wheels.But it does so through sharper componentry. There"s a standard mechanical diff, while the seven-speed manual gearbox not only gets shorter ratios, but a shorter lever. The already delightful shift ought to be mesmerisingly good now.Porsche has saved 20kg over a standard 911 Carrera by throwing out lots of sound insulation alongside the back seats, fitting thinner glass at the rear, and making the radio, sat nav and phone connectivity optional (albeit at no cost). Perhaps the modern definition of Touring" is driving round and round in circles under a load of road noiseAnyhow, it now weighs 1,425kg, and has shaved a tenth from the Carrera"s 0-62mph time, at 4.5sec. You can slice that more dramatically (down to 4.2sec) by speccing the PDK paddleshifter, but you"d be undoing all the hard work that"s gone into its more snickety manual. So don"t.
Date written: 22 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9656