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CONFIDENCE, BOOSTED

HOW MANY TREES ARE THERE IN THE BLACK FOREST? It feels like I’m on a mission to see as many as is humanly possible in just a few hours from the passenger seat of a pre-production Porsche 911 Turbo convertible. We approach some from unexpected angles. Others are almost close enough to touch. There are very few straight roads in the Black Forest, so it’s just as well we’re in a car that relishes bends so much and has the comfort and composure to sustain that enthusiasm all day and the grip to ensure we don’t have a sudden career-change to lumberjack.

This is not some reckless thrash through the wooded vastness of southwest Germany. I’m in the very safe hands of a Porsche test driver who comes here so often that he’s given some of these

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