- [Narrator] Porsche released the 991.2 version
of their iconic turbo a little while back.
But, you'd be forgiven for not noticing.
Sure, horsepower is up by 20 to 580 for the S version,
but beyond that, the big news was
an upgraded navigation system!
Then we took one to the test track, and it did a wheelie.
No, really!
The new turbo S launches with such ferocity,
that the front wheels came up off the ground.
It then managed to run the quarter-mile
in 10.5 seconds, same as the Bugatti Veyron.
So yeah, it's great at drag racing.
But how will it do on a racetrack?
- Yeah!
- [Randy] Balance feeling really, really great so far.
Dig!
Haha!
I love the brake grind.
Let's see how we do here with corkscrew.
Oh yeah, beautiful!
Record speed over the corkscrew, I can just feel it.
This thing just does it for me!
It's so easy to come off that hair pin!
So easy!
Nope changed my mind, I don't want to get out.
I'm just so utterly blown away by the capability
of the newest version of the 911 Turbo S.
There's a meme, there's a theme out in the world,
in the Porsche land that the 911 Turbo
is so good, that it's maybe a little bit boring.
Boring as in extreme capability.
Haha!
Incredibly rewarding to drive and the braking
impressed the living daylights out of me.
The amount of braking Gs and force it will generate,
the nice firm peddle, that much travel that
never changes, and a normal street-able car!
I mean, you can take this to the coast for the weekend,
or down to 7-11 to get your pint of half and half.
That was aggressive!
I was driving that girl hard, cos I could!
It's like a ball player with soft hands.
When you see a good football receiver,
and he catches a football and the way
it just lands in his hands, that's
how this car lands in a corner.
It lands in soft in the corner, it just rips,
just holds, so you can drive it hard, hard!
This car is just incredibly capable.
It's an amazing accomplishment in today's sports car world.
- [Narrator] The Turbo S can go around corners too.
It might actually have been Randy's
favorite car on the track, why?
Because the Turbo S is not only blindingly quick,
but it doesn't put a foot wrong.
There just isn't any bad behavior.
It goes like stink!
One minute thirty three point two one seconds,
as a matter of fact is just two tenths of a second off the
much more track focused AMG GT R.
You may think of the new Turbo S as weaponized speed,
effortless weaponized speed at that,
which is why it's in third place.
See, the judges felt that perhaps the big orange
Porsche is just too easy to drive.
It wasn't rewarding enough, more of
a show off than a pure driver's car.
Also, there were two cars that we liked better.