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Play it again, Porsche

The new 911 starts speaking to you immediately with softly spoken words, for this has never been a sportscar that needs to raise its voice to be heard amongst the clatter of pop culture insecurities. And before you know it you’ve mentally stuck out your hand and given the new Porsche member a solid friendly handshake. You just know you’ll be seen a lot more of it from here on in – the quintessential benchmark of professionalism.

A pace around its familiar proportions is a calm study of assessment - no radical rewrites in thinking here but enough twitches of a revolution that will guide the world’s de facto sports car through a foggy period of transition that, to pick just one, will see 911 Turbo become hybrid.

The 992 nomenclature starts where

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