Porsche 911 Carrera S vs Audi R8 RWS: PH Video!
The new 911 CS is a £93k car, which edges it into nearly-new supercar territory...
I don’t really need to tell you this video is a proper Porsche 911 (992) geek-out, because the moment I mention the slightly dissatisfying action of the electric window switch at the three-minute mark, that much should become clear. The objective here was to get underneath the skin of the new 911 on roads we know well. To really interrogate it. Every time Porsche’s rear-engined sports car regenerates people like me ask the same hackneyed question: does it still feel like a 911?
Not wanting to break with tradition that’s exactly the question I pose in this vid. Because while it mightn’t be a particularly imaginative thing to ask, I do think it’s a necessary thing to ask, more so at a time when the 911 is getting bigger, heavier, more sophisticated and - outwardly at least - quite unlike those very compact and fizzy sports cars that built the 911 legend.
I also wanted to address the sheer cost of the thing, because if a single 911 Carrera S leaves a UK showroom with a five-figure sum on its sales invoice, I’ll be amazed. With a list price of £93,000 the Carrera S is now in practice a £100,000 car, which to me is supercar money. That’s why the 992 goes up against a nearly-new Audi R8 (perhaps ‘junior supercar’ is a better description) at the tail end of this film. If you’re paying supercar money, you want a supercar experience, don’t you?
Thank you for watching. This is the first in a series of videos that I’ll be making for PH along with videographer Harry Rudd. Anything that’s good about this video is down to him. Hope you enjoy it. And don't forget to subscribe to be the first to see our new videos!
Recently I drove a cooking 996 and it was also great fun.
If you want to get a road sports car and have 30k - get a 911 if you've 150k, err, get a 911.
Recently I drove a cooking 996 and it was also great fun.
If you want to get a road sports car and have 30k - get a 911 if you've 150k, err, get a 911.
I see it this way: the 911, despite being inherently quirky with its RR layout, has somehow managed to become the Golf of performance cars. I think that's exactly what Porsche engineers intended it to be, and could be seen as quite a feat depending on how you look at it.
Just not to me. There is nothing about the 911 that gets my pulses racing, especially now that all variants except the gt ones have gone turbo charged. It's funny I say this as I've never been a fan of Audi, but it does look (and sound) like the more special one of the two in this particular comparison.
I feel like Porsche have lost the plot by moving the 911 so far into the "fat car" category, and opening up a niche below for what the 911 used to be.
I mean, lets face it; the 911's biggest competition funnily enough is probably a sister car.
Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff