It’s been a great day the PEC as I had an invite from my OPC to come and test cars after for the afternoon. So I had the Boxster GTS, Cayman and the 991 GTS.
So my thoughts on the 991 GTS, is it’s a lovely bit of kit but it does have a different style to that of the Cayman and Boxster cars. What do I mean by a different style of driving when going from the Boxster / Cayman, the first thing I noticed about the 991 GTS (AWD) was a heaver frontend. It also has a different driving dynamic as with the 981 cars you need to trail break the cars in to the corners a lot more due to a lighter front end. However, over all thought the handling of the car is something else, it really does feel planted around the track.
On the kick plate thought, the difference are highlighted much more as you can feel the 911 has a much more heavy rear end and so the pendulum effect really comes in to play. However, it’s also very satisfying when you have all the electronics of the car off and then you catch the side and also a wee bit of drifting.
The 991 does also feel much bigger than my GTS and physically it is but I am not sure how it would feel on the road, as I have been tearing around the track all afternoon. I'd guess it may feel a little too wide. However, I would need to have a test drive on public roads to confirm that.
One area I did notice a huge difference was the breaks, it also probably doesn’t help that my car has PCCBs and the test car had normal steels. The car felt bigger and heaver as it is but still it stopped very well.
981 GTS & 991 GTS
So my final thoughts on these are a bit like chalk and cheese really, the Cayman is a much more playful car but this is partly due to the weight difference as it’s a lot lighter. Overall, I loved my experience in the 911 and that’s going to be my next car in a few years’ time especially in the Mexico blue.
I have a LOI in for a 991.2 GT3 at the moment, if that proves to be unsuccesful will be going with a 991.2 GTS. However, that does depend on the turbo engines.
Also my instructor was telling about the new supercar Porsche are due to bring the market in the next few years, it will be called the 960 and it shares the same chassis as the new Lamborghini Huracan as I am led to believe its a Porsche designed chassis.
Pictures to follow.
