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Car Tech - 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet

2013-11-21
well a lot of folks hope the new 911 offered just about everything but if it missing one thing a turbo cab that's been fixed now here is the new ragtop with the blower in it this is a pretty serious car five hundred and twenty or 560 horsepower because there's an S that's your biggest power one three two or three five or your zero to sixty times who's splitting hairs now the 911 turbo cab has always had kind of the stink of Beverly Hills poser about it the Porsche says there is so much serious supercar technology in here you can ignore the doubters for example they've all got PDK is obviously the very advanced dual clutch transmission Porsche does we've got adaptive suspension base we've got intelligent adaptive motor mounts but this is interesting they've got active rear steering controlled by a computer and some servo actuators in the back the rear wheels can either steer together or they can steer apart but it's able to do different things with toe-in and toe-out to make the car either corner better or track more stable whatever is needed for the driving conditions these cars have always been broad of being these turbos but it's really accentuated this what's 74 inch width across the hips when the top is down because there's that much less height so the appearance of width really gets kind of nuts from the back when it tops up by the way it's kind of got a decent coupe roofline because they've done this very expensive magnesium rod technology in the top to really keep things stretched in kind of a coupe arc as opposed to that kind of saggy circus tent look that most cloth rag tops tend to have when they're up I talked about pricing but you can't afford it neither can I
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