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Porsche 911 (992.2) – performance and 0-60mph time

The 992 is a properly quick car, with even the base Carrera taking just 4.1secs to reach 62mph

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You can’t buy a slow 992.2. On paper, the least accelerative model is the Carrera T, mostly due to its manual transmission, which reaches 62mph in 4.5sec and runs to a top speed of 183mph. It's a sweet shifting 'box but the gearing is long in typical Porsche fashion, and you'll go faster in a PDK car – as demonstrated by the auto-only Carrera, which gets to 62mph four tenths quicker (albeit with the same top speed). 

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The Carrera S is a significant step up, completing the benchmark sprint in 3.5sec and topping out at 191mph – numbers you’d normally associate with supercars. All these figures are broadly in-line with 992.1 equivalents, but the GTS gets a noticeable step up in performance, hitting 62mph in just 3sec in both rear- and four-wheel drive forms – three tenths quicker than before. Top speed is 194mph.

That makes the GTS even quicker than a PDK-equipped GT3, which reaches 62mph in 3.4sec and runs to 193mph. With a manual, the 0-62mph time increases to 3.9sec. 

The 992.2 has more in its locker, though, and when the Turbo arrives, expect it to beat the outgoing car’s ballistic performance figures (0-62mph in 2.7sec and 205mph flat out in the Turbo S). The GT3 RS will trade ultimate straight line speed for a downforce-heavy aero package – the 992.1 hit 62mph in 3.2sec and topped out at 184mph. 

So the 992.2 is very quick on paper, and feels it on the road, too. Truth be told, even the regular Carrera is so quick these days that it’s difficult to imagine wanting any more performance from a road car. The PDK shifts so quickly and seamlessly that the performance is almost instantly available to you, yet there’s still joy in running to the redline – the turbocharged flat-six almost mimics the delivery of a naturally aspirated unit. 

The GTS is, plainly, ballistic. The larger engine capacity and hybrid elements give it fantastic reach and response, with a muscular mid-range building to an energetic top end. It doesn’t actually feel hybridised, but more like a big, hard-hitting naturally aspirated engine (oddly, its note is like that of a cross-plane V8 at times). 

The GT3 is the real deal though, and there’s no beating its sharpness and 9000rpm theatrics. It still has that familiar GT car shriek when you wring it out, and closer gear ratios than the 992.1 make those addictive sensations easier to access than before.

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