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Photos From Our Drive of the New 2020 Porsche 911

The Editors

January 22, 2019 at 4:44 PM

<p>Every new 911 is greeted with the same sort of skepticism as lacto-fermented hot sauce. Just as you might wonder what's wrong with hot sauce that fermentation-sorry, lacto-fermentation-could possibly make better, the 911 is never something fans think needs changing. Leave it alone, Porsche. We're still choking down the whole water-cooling bit.</p>

<p>So here we are in front of an urfa-dusted 911, the 2020 model that will go on sale this summer. People who care will call it the 992. Everyone else will call it the 911, and to them, the design is the same as it has always been.</p>

The 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera Downplays Its Performance Evolution

<p>Well, it's just like a fancy restaurant - the basics are there, but a lot of little changes might add up to something entirely different.</p>

<p>Every generation of 911 brings unsettling recipe changes. We worry that some of the simplicity that is the hallmark of a sports car will be eroded with every inch of physical and metaphysical expansion.</p>

<p>Is it a full GT car at this point? All 911s have been suitable for daily use, but Porsche continues to widen the appeal of the 911, and this new car is its fiercest attempt yet to make it a user-friendly, supremely comfortable long-distance car.</p>

Is This the End of Porsche as We Know It?

The 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera Downplays Its Performance Evolution

<p>The S's front track increases 1.9 inches, and its rear tires move outward 1.5 inches.</p>

The 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera Downplays Its Performance Evolution

<p>A larger, 10.9-inch touchscreen pulled right from the Panamera and Macan updates the 911's interior.</p>

<p>Many of the hard buttons that dotted the center console have been replaced by touch-sensitive areas that give off a little vibration when you hit them. </p>

Is This the End of Porsche as We Know It?

<p>The goofy shifter looks like an electric razor, and on the dash in front of it are five toggle switches for operating stability control, the hazard lights, and equipment-specific features such as the optional front-end lift.</p>

The 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera Downplays Its Performance Evolution

<p>Should there be any poultry crossing the road, the 992's brakes, like those of all 911s, will get you stopped in time.</p>

<p>To future-proof the 992 for hybridization, an electric brake booster replaces the vacuum-driven unit.</p>

<p>That in itself is not a big deal, but a 911 with an electrically assisted powertrain is likely to become a reality before this generation is phased out.</p>

<p>Under the wraparound taillights and raised PORSCHE lettering is a familiar twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-six.</p>

<p>Changes include new rear-engine mounts that move from a carrier behind the engine to the engine's sides, the better to control the six's movements.</p>

<p>New turbochargers have larger turbine and compressor wheels (up by 0.1 and 0.2 inch, respectively), and in the interest of reducing turbo lag, the left and right turbos are mirror images, spinning their wheels in opposite directions to ensure that the exhaust from each cylinder bank travels the same path. </p>

<p>Previously, the turbochargers were true identical twins, a situation akin to having two left arms, which resulted in asymmetrical plumbing.</p>

<p>On-track, the throttle response felt snappy good, but the 991.2's twin-turbo 3.0-liter is similarly great. If anything, from a standstill, the revised engine takes a few hundred more rpm to seem as if it's serious, but that could be due to strangulation by the exhaust-system particulate filter that is fitted to European models like those we drove.</p>

Porsche 911

The new 992-generation Carrera S and 4S' familiarity masks significant re-engineering.

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