Porsche 911 Carrera 4: Thunderously great!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Porsche 911 Carrera 4: Thunderously great!

Here's a nice review of the Carrera 4. A must read!

Excuse me, I have my mouth full. Just eating a few words. Won't be a minute... A few weeks ago, I drove the Porsche Cayman S and, overcome with the excitement of it all, essentially claimed that Porsche had no need for its "pimped-up Beetle" flagship, by which I meant the 911. I was wrong.

The new 911 Carrera 4 is a thunderously great sports car, in another league from the hard-top Boxster altogether

Rarely has a car felt so planted, so explosive off the line, so thoroughly well engineered and so precise - from its delicate, thin steering-wheel to its finicky stereo buttons - as the Carrera 4.

This is a car that offers all of its power, all of the time, right there for your pleasure at the twitch of a foot. The question then becomes, is the new four-wheel drive Carrera 4 better than the standard, rear-wheel drive 911 Carrera I tried 18 months ago?