911 & Porsche World

TIM HARVEY

f you’re anything like me, the first thing you do when you drive a new car is find the nearest stretch of straight road and bury the throttle. To my mind, intrinsic to our love of sports cars is the question of how fast a vehicle can travel or, as is actually the case, how fast it feels. This sensation of speed is most likely to define how much we’re going to like and enjoy the machine we’re in charge of. don’t drive mundane, boring cars. In any case, all Porsches are supposed to be sporting vehicles — yes, even the diesels and EVs!

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