The seventh iteration of Porsche's wild-eyed turbo supercar, the blown version of the 991 debuted in 2013. The 991 was only the third entirely new chassis for the classic roly-poly 911 and it was the most civilized yet by far. With all-wheel drive and four wheel steering and a much evolved suspension, the Turbo S had come a long way from the snap-oversteering ditch seeking missile that was the original Seventies turbocharged 911.
Stuffed in the ass end of the car was a twin-turbo 3.8L flat six belting out 560 horsepower, sent to all four 20-inch wheels via a 7-speed PDK dual clutch transmission.
Car and Driver hustled their 2015 Porsche 911 Turbo S test car to sixty in a mere 2.5 seconds and rocketed through the quarter in 10.3 seconds at 130 miles per hour; these would have been credible literbike numbers when I was a teen. Almost as impressively, it circled the skidpad at 1.07g. You'd want to keep a lid on your Frappuccino lest you poured your Starbucks horizontally onto the passenger window while cornering hard.
All this eyeball-flattening fun came at an as-tested price of $195,175, or about $261,600 in 2025 dollars.
The one in the photo, which is in Agate Gray Metallic, I believe, was snapped in October of 2023 with a Nikon D800 and 24-120mm f/4 VR zoom lens.
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