The GTS versions of the 911 are designed to appeal to you and me — enthusiasts who love the Porsche brand, its products and the very act of being behind the wheel. A roadgoing ode to driving pleasure, the GTS is intended to be a driver-oriented model sitting between its Carrera S and Turbo stablemates, but with less of a track-focused vibe than the race-bred GT3.
By this logic, the GTS should follow a few basic rules. For a kick-off, it should come with a manual gearbox making you feel more in touch with the machine, rather than one of these fancy semiautomatic jobs. And it should certainly send its power to the rear wheels. Surely, no Porsche purist thinks there’s a place for driving the front wheels — even if only partly — in what should be the most dynamically involving sports coupe on the road? Then again, rules were made to be broken.
The 911 we have here breaks both of these established ways at once, aiming to team GTS firepower and handling with the supposedly user-friendly twin-clutch PDK gearbox and all-wheel drive. In purely financial terms, the semi-automatic transmission makes absolutely no difference. Boot up the Porsche configurator and you’ll find PDK
