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Porsche 911 Carrera, Supercar Performance All-Round

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Porsche do many things so brilliantly that you're impressed as soon as you start asking the new Porsche 911 Carrera to get a move on. In fact, everything looks right as soon as you open the door and slide in. Quality beams at you, but more important on a fast car, once adjusted, everything seems in the right place. So when I got onto my favorite test route, I'm getting the flavour straight away. Ease out of a T-junction, squirt into a tight S-bend, where the road narrows a bit, with walls on each side, another squirt and brake for the the right turn off onto a minor road. Loves tricky bends and short straights It's a tricky bend, more than a right-angle, and is followed by a left-handler. The 911 just sails around without any roll, and soon I'm accelerating hard no I'm not as there's a slow car in the way, and a bend ahead. Check brake, and wait till after the bend, and the road is clear. Floor the throttle; the car we're overtaking seems to stand still as w