NOT ABSOLUTE POWER

You press the gas pedal in the 992-generation 911 Turbo and it feels as if the throttle is trying to push your eyeballs into the back of your head. It is ridiculous. Such power and performance all corralled into the familiar form of Porsche’s evergreen rear-engined sports machine – shouldn’t really be this wieldy and accessible, but the fact the – Turbo isn’t even the pinnacle of the current 911 breed is even more astounding than how generally civil this land-based missile actually is. Yep, in the 2020s, you have to wrangle with the concept a 572bhp 911 chucking out 554lb-ft and 199mph isn’t enough to be considered a range-topper. Never mind that these are the same numbers the runout 991 Gen II Turbo S toted, or that the 992 Turbo is a tenth of a second quicker to 62mph from rest (a dash taking just 2.8 seconds) than said older Turbo S could achieve. This new Porsche (well, hypercar, really), is not king of its own particular hill. That crown rests atop the head of the 992 Turbo S, which delivers an eye-watering 641bhp and 590lb-ft.

For what it’s worth, on the paper-listed metrics alone, the ‘S’ added to the nameplate of your widebody 911 gains you another tenth to explain the price difference between the two. A tenth here and a 200mph-plus there just doesn’t cut it. We also need to know precisely why Porsche has put the cart before the horse, if you catch our drift, giving us the 641bhp showstopper before landing the 572bhp warm-up act in our midst. Sorry, we’re mixing our metaphors there. Ahem.