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Porsche 911 Turbo spied

Our spies catch the Porsche 911 Turbo testing at the Nurburgring

Porsche 911 Turbo

Text: Ben Foulds / Photos: Automedia

13th July 2011

We've already snapped the all-new Porsche 911 – indeed, we've ridden in it - but now our spies have caught the full-fat Turbo model pounding around Germany's Nurburgring circuit.

There's a deeper bumper with larger air intakes at the front, but it's at the rear where the Turbo marks itself out: large twin exhausts integrated within a stocky bumper and a sizeable spoiler ensure there's no mistaking it from lesser Carrera variants.

In performance terms, the Turbo has always been the pinnacle of the 911 range – and this is set to continue with the 991 generation. The current model pushes out 493bhp from its 3.6-litre six-cylinder engine and the new car's 3.8-litre powerplant will ramp that figure up to somewhere around 550bhp. When you think that the original 1974 turbocharged 911 developed 258bhp, you begin to grasp some idea of how far the car has come.

Sales of the new Porsche 911 Turbo will start in 2013, and we'd expect entry-level models to cost around £120,000.

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3 Comments

Evolutionary

Well at least my 997TT is not going to look out of date.

By wilsonlaidlaw on 14 July, 2011, 8:13am

Porsche Power and Pump Gas

No doubt the 911 Turbo will continue to live up to it's name. I had the privilege to tune a 1983 911 Turbo with Bosch Jetronic fuel injection, which we had replaced with electronic fuel injection with 2 injectors per cylinder, powered by a Haltech E6K-12 ECU. It had a KKK Turbo equivalent to a Garrett T3/T4. At only 15 psi we put down 450 HP to the wheels with equal amount of torque. That same car back in the 80s was not able to make the same amount of power due to the type of pump gas octane available then. So most of the advancements that you see in HP and Torque today is not attributed to the engine build alone, it is more to do with the fuel that we can buy at your Petrol Station which allows more boost or compression ratio. This is what ultimately determines the amount of HP we can tune an engine to run at safely. The Haltech made the car smoother and easier to drive, and what was amazing was that inspite of the HP increase, the car delivered better mileage, especially around town.

By Caribbean on 14 July, 2011, 9:46am

Looks the same.

Looks like the old one, but I'll have one anyway (lol).

By badboyrocco on 14 July, 2011, 2:31pm

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