Design 2014 Porsche 911
The Bilster Berg Drive Resort is a private club track in central Germany that squiggles over hill and dale at the top of a small mountain where there once was a British Army ammo dump.
It’s not a track-map sticker you really want for your car, as the circuit is shaped almost exactly like the large intestine. And people in our group kept calling it “Blister Berg,” the mountain of blisters.
Porsche’s intention is to give you it all. Blistering speed, of course, but, just as important, daily usability, the comfort of a sheik’s casbah, and the best fuel efficiency possible in a 911 offering up to 560 horsepower.
In cracking its lid and packing in even more horses, the car’s keister swells by yet another 1.1 inches from its predecessor. The 911 Turbo has always had hips you want to grab with both hands and squeeze, but now, from the back, the new Turbo looks like a Peter Paul Rubens scene in CinemaScope.
Strapped with twin BorgWarner compressors using variable-vane geometry, originally a technology for spinning up turbos faster in diesels, the 3.8-liter flat-six encases new shorter-skirt pistons and forged connecting rods among the modifications needed to handle both 14.5 psi of whistling boost and a 9.8:1 compression ratio.
If 520 horsepower isn’t enough, the Turbo S makes 560 on 17.4 psi, with a torque peak of 516 pound-feet arriving at just 2100 rpm. Both cars can squirt another 2.2 psi into their pots on temporary overboost.
Specifications
VEHICLE TYPE: rear-engine, 4-wheel-drive, 2+2-passenger, 2-door coupe
ENGINE TYPE: twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve 3.8-liter flat-6, 520 hp, 487 lb-ft; twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve 3.8-liter flat-6, 560 hp, 516 lb-ft
TRANSMISSION: 7-speed dual-clutch automatic with manual shifting mode
DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 96.5 in
Length: 177.4 in
Width: 74.0 in Height: 51.0 in
Curb weight: 3550 lb
PERFORMANCE (C/D EST):
Zero to 60 mph: 2.7–2.8 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 6.4–6.5 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 10.7–10.8 sec
Top speed: 196–198 mph
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