When Porsche first unveiled 911 GTS, it is safe to say that many people on the planet Earth were not for hybrid 911. One of the world’s most famous sports cars believes that he is taking a hint from the polite Toyota Pros that is a concept that is a bit difficult for the average auto’s excitement to get his head.
But they should try, because the technology that Porsche has deployed in 911 GTS, Porsche’s first hybrid sports car is properly impressive. It is a hybrid system that does not exist to improve fuel consumption, but rather a bit of high voltage and excessive promotion injection to improve the sports car.
Tech fulfills the tradition
911 has retained its stubborn engine sequence from the beginning. His motor is spread between the previous wheels and behind it, not because it is the best place for handling, but only because it is always done. It does not change with 911 GTS. What is new, though, is an increase in the mixture of electric motor, which has added the gasoline engine to the path. She is sitting in a new motor’s eight -speed double clutch transmission, which includes 54 horsepower and 29 pounds of torque.
That number is hardly remarkable, but the real magic is what the car does with its new high voltage system. There is really another electric motor here, a small one that is able to avoid ridiculous hot temperatures. It needs it because it lives inside the turbo charger.
The Turbo Charger is a simple wheel that rotates through the gas. As a result, another wheel rotates that force the air into engine intake. This is a simple technology that was well developed 100 years ago, but since the early days of forcibly adding, when it comes to automotive applications, there is always a problem: interval. Route gases to rotate the turbo charger produces an internal delay between requesting an operation between the driver and the fact that the car is, in fact. The internal combustion needs to create pressure to rotate the wheels to suck more and more to provide maximum power.
Porsche shortly rebelled that the novel with an electric motor, which rotates the turbo charger to 120,000 RPMs in less than a second. The interval is not completely eliminated, but it is so low that you know it hardly. The pair that supplied with an electric motor in the transmission, with the additional kick, and you have some magic: a gasoline -powered car that intensifies with all the quick consumption of an EV.
The sensitivity of the design
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Porsche calls the entire system, as well as a 1.9 kW battery that gives it strength, Tea hybrid. 2025 911 GTS has a net result 532 HP and 449 LB-FT torque. This is a significant, 59-HP promotion compared to the old GTS.
Nevertheless, there is only a clear sign that there is a bit different about the car. And this is a good thing, because I have the opinion that the current generation 911, called internally 992.2, is one of the most beautiful cars on the road. Even in this decisive chalky color, it is amazing. Colorful couples with 20 inches in front and 21 -inch black wheels and other ebony highlights around the car.
The admission is like that, a minimum, to a great extent. But there are only plenty of content such as carbon fiber and alkantara so that it can be felt formal and meaningful, not fundamental. And, if you want, you can go with a combination of many wild entry. Porsche is happy to customize your heart content, but be careful that it will cost you.
The car interface is easier than 911S. Most controlled car patelite is consumed by 10.9 -inch touch screen, serving both wireless Android Auto and Apple Corplay, while a curved, 12.6 -inch virtual gauge is behind the cluster steering wheel. Your continuous tasks supply strong pinch, which is left to physical control are well positioned. Perhaps the most important drive mode is the dial that is riding a four o’clock position on the steering wheel. How do you dial the severity of 911 GTS? Or, press the shiny small red button to completely go.
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Driving
GTS is not the most powerful 911 in this moment. This honor is 640 horsepower in 911 turbo S but no other 911 provides such strength, which offers the quick taste of the electric techno with internal combustion and high speed acceleration that you expect from 911.
It is enough to say, quite addictive. And to get the best taste of it, press the aforementioned Crimson button. This gives you 20 seconds of the game’s response, the electronic turbo charger of the car helps to maintain the maximum power. The route opens completely, the transmission falls one or two gear, and suddenly the machine you were parked by traffic comes alive.
Keep your feet in this mode and 911 GTS moves forward without a moment’s hesitation. You can hear the turbo charger behind your head whistle as it works to create intake pressure, trap the environment in the air and to squeeze in the combustion chamber for the next squeeze and the bang. Its addiction, but if you have become accustomed to the silent power of an EV, it is probably very high. In a sports format, the standard game on GTS is so high that you may frighten anyone on which you pass on the road.
Thankfully, it is easy to silence GTS. A touch screen and a tap of the GTS’s silence button. It is not quite calm, but very much. Despite having electric motors and battery, it is not a plug -in hybrid. You will also struggle to get out of your driveway without firing this engine. But that’s fine. Remember: This is not a performance game.
In normal format, the suspension is softened and ultra -fast transmission transitions are in something that easily slips from one gear to another, minimizes the Rev Revive to maximize fuel consumption. According to the EPA, 911 GTS makes a 19 MPG joint rating. Despite some pieces of driving joy, I managed 25.1 MPG and performed much better.
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But even most of its, GTS Austin Martin DB-12 or Mercedes-AMGT is not a great luxury tourist of luxury. On its softest, the suspension is still stable, the road is shouting with these sharp tires and the noise of the air is also disturbing – so much so that the middleing kissing sound system is struggling to overcome it.
Therefore, despite the GTS mankar, it is more sports car than a grand tour. The instant power is the party’s party’s trick, which is made with amazing feeling, easily handling and such amazing grip that will make your favorite driving roads feel.
These are the other reasons for finding your new favorite roads. Despite punishing you on the highway and on a broken asphalt, 911 GTS never feels blowing and always leaves you as much as possible. This is a car that you will not want to get out of, which may explain why I am writing a lot from the driver’s seat.
The cost of entry
To start, more than 000 170,000, or more than 196,185 formed, is not an affordable machine. If I am buying, my GTS will be a bit cheaper. I will stay with the GTS model, instead of just the All -Wheel Drive Career 4, the All -Wheel Drive Career. I will also leave Sun Rauf, which increases the bill and a car in a car, both of which increases $ 2,980, which has already added more than 100 pounds over GTS.
Only these two deletions will reduce this biography by about $ 10,000. Expensive, yes, but the technology here feels worth it. This is a new approach to electricity, which can hardly be compromised by the sports car. It is really a desired machine, the kind of hybrid that fans of Porsche do not know that they need, but one of them certainly needs to try.
