Or you can let your fingers do the shifting by pushing down or pulling up on the left and right shift tabs, which are integrated into the new steering wheel. When not in Drive, a push or pull of the stubby stalk lets you up- or downshift by hand. Dual clutches encased in an oil bath enable it to operate in full automatic or manual mode as determined by the position of the console-mounted shifter. Based on the factory's racing automatic introduced in 1983, this slick-shifting 7-speed dishes out upshifts and downshifts with lightning speed and changes gears 60 percent faster (0.42 versus 1.05 sec.) than the torque-converter-equipped Tiptronic S it replaces. Sporting direct injection (DFI), new (and fewer) internal components, one-piece cylinder heads and a new induction system, the latest 3.6 and 3.8-liter 4-cam engines are smaller, lighter, have a lower center of gravity than their predecessors and are about 13 percent more fuel efficient.ĭance partner to this new 4-cam is Porsche's long-awaited PDK (Porsche Doppelkupplung) transmission, a $4080 option on both normal and S models. That's 20 and 30 bhp more, respectively, than the previous two Carrera engines. The secret to the new 911's fancy footwork is an all-new flat-6 developing 345 horsepower in the normal Carrera and 385 in the S. With a top speed of 188 mph, the top-of-the-line Carrera S is said to take as little as 4.1 seconds to squirt from 0 to 60 mph. Sure, it's still a great-looking car, especially now that its styling has been freshened.īut unless you speak fluent Porsche, you may not realize that the new Carrera is the hottest normally aspirated, mass-produced 911 ever to zoom out of Zuffenhausen. As appearances go, the 2009 version of this 46-year-old design won't exactly make heads whip around as it passes by. Ludwigsburg, Germany - "Dance 10, looks 3," goes the lyric from one of the songs in A Chorus Line.
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