2016 Porsche 911 Turbo REVIEW | Weapon Of Choice For The Daily Drive
THAT ELEGANT BONECRUSHER, THE PORSCHE 911, HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT NATURALLY ASPIRATED ENGINES, EXCEPT FOR ITS RANGE-TOPPING, RIP-ROARING TURBO MODEL.
But now that its entire range is turning to turbocharging, what happens to the car that’s no longer the odd one out?
Porsche, of course, says the 911 Turbo (and the even more outrageous Turbo S) still has a reason to exist, and that reason is power, or at least torque. The most you’ll get out of a Carrera S, even the new turbo ones, is 500Nm, but the Turbo S makes 750Nm.
That’s not a little bit more, that’s a mountain, and alongside a power figure of 427kW (or 397kW in the base Turbo, which makes do with 710Nm), all-wheel drive and a best 0-100km/h time of an astonishing 2.6 seconds, that puts the Turbo well and truly in supercar territory.
Which is an area Porsche has no intention of leaving.