With increasingly stringent fuel-economy standards looming, most manufacturers seek to clean up their rides without sacrificing power. One particular business-wide solution: Slap a turbo on everything. Porsche appears to be joining the mainstream, as a report from Automobile suggests that the brand’s bread-and-butter, the 911, will sport a lot more turbocharged models when it is refreshed next year.
Lo!, you say—Porsche currently builds a turbocharged 911 known as, um, the 911 Turbo. Indeed, it does already make the wickedly fast 911 Turbo, but Porsche for the initial time will bolt turbochargers to the base 911 Carrera and subsequent-step-up 911 Carrera S models. At least, that’s what Car‘s sources say. For the Carrera, this means a reduction in displacement from 3.4 to 2.9 liters, although the Carrera S will preserve its 3.8 liters of flat-6.
Is the sun really setting on the naturally aspirated Porsche flat-6?
So what does this mean for the 911 on a macro scale? Effectively, presumably if the base cars get turbos, so, too, will the myriad spinoffs Porsche has designed more than the years, from the GTS to the Carrera 4/4S to the Targa. Indications are that the challenging-core, track-ready GT3 model will stay naturally aspirated but could go on an even stricter diet program to eke out a lot more efficiency.
So far, this all makes sense. Cue our lamenting the loss of the Carrera models’ sweet-sounding naturally aspirated exhaust note and all that. Where Car’s report loses us is in the energy department: The publication’s sources say the base Carrera will create 400 horsepower—50 more than today’s vehicle and on par with the current Carrera S the newly turbocharged Carrera S, on the other hand, will belt out 530 horsepower, a obtain of 130 horsepower, which would place it solidly in between today’s 911 Turbo and Turbo S. Customarily, the Turbo trails the introduction of a new 911 by a model year or 2, but a new Carrera S hasn’t threatened to outpower the older Turbo prior to. We’re left asking yourself exactly where Porsche may locate an equivalent jump in energy for the range-topping Turbo and Turbo S—might we see a 911 making Dodge Hellcat power? We’ll discover out when the refreshed 911 (dubbed the 991.2-generation) debuts late next year as a 2016 model.
Porsche 911 Lineup to Go Predominantly Turbo? It Could Take place Subsequent Year
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