Porsche's 2010 911 Turbo definitively answers the question: What is the ultimate 911?
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Walter Röhrl's favorite 911.
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It is a delight to get behind the wheel of a car that performs so well and has such a rich personality.
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We celebrate the experience of driving, and driving a 911 is all about the experience.
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Ignore all of the angst over the Panamera. Porsche hasn't sold out. It couldn't have; not when it produced a car like the 2010 911 GT3.
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Driving one is not an experience, it's an occasion. 911s are that special.
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If the 2009 Porsche 911 drove out of the woods, would anyone notice?
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Two new engines and an all-wheel-drive system cribbed from the 911 Turbo make a good thing better.
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The requisite visual changes are accompanied by revised engines with direct-injection as well as Porsche's new seven-speed double-clutch transmission.
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With 520 horsepower, twenty pounds of turbo boost, and rear-wheel drive, the Porsche 911 GT2 is as wicked as they come.
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For driving alfresco - when seconds count. The new Turbo cabrio is a great all-around vehicle that makes speed incredibly accessible, even in the rain or snow.
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As journalists, we're accustomed to hearing well thought out, carefully planned marketing spin from expertly trained PR professionals. And we're usually very good at ignoring it. We smile at the nice PR rep, grab the keys, and formulate our own opinion.
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We don't tend to think of the Germans as creative visionaries--they're far too logical for that. But every so often, Germans solve an engineering problem so creatively that it becomes art.
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Forking over the new 911 Turbo, Porsche stipulated no to-the-death comparison tests or precise performance measurements. Of course we honored that request. But what would you do with the most powerful Porsche coupe ever produced in a land blessed with speed-li
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Adria International Raceway near Venice, Italy, is a safe but dull racetrack in the point-and-squirt idiom, with lots of tight corners connected by short straights and all the character of a spatula. Making matters worse, the two stretches along which I could
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The Eskimos are said to distinguish thirty-seven different kinds of snow and ice. The Laplanders, who live much closer to civilization, can probably still name seventeen different varieties. But I'm perfectly happy with a three-step gradation: slippery, very s
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When a small, independent automaker like Porsche has two world-premieres at one auto show, it's big news. It's even bigger news when the two cars are the downright nutty 480-hp 911 Turbo and this model, the 911 GT3. With 415 horsepower, the GT3 is the most pow
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The 1.7 extra inches of rump on the new all-wheel drive 911 are a fashion statement, an engineering solution, and a handling improvement all in one.
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Winter fun in the new 911 cabrio: Catching a cold never looked so good.
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One modern supercar meets three old racing cars in a test of speed through the years.
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Porsche's best-yet Carrera does 0-60 in 4.6 seconds and blazes to 183 mph. Georg Kacher spends three days and 911 flat-out kilometers in the latest version of the Porsche 911.
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Muscled up and hunkered down, Porsche's race-ready 911 GT3 isn't for the faint of heart.
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To rally a Porsche 911 Targa in Canada's easternmost province, we pored over the road map--and the dictionary.
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Further evidence that TVR should return to the United States.
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For wind-in-the-hair types who don't like convertibles.
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