The Porsche 911 Turbo S is the all-wheel-drive 911 built to be quickest without anyone noticing.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S is the all wheel drive 911, 640 hp through four wheels with a cabin quiet enough for a two hour freeway run, and strangers still read it as just another 911. It is booked by renters who want the fastest car they have ever driven and want the valet to take them seriously rather than the crowd to photograph them.
Below 3,500 rpm the pull stays polite, then the turbochargers spool fully and the car fires down the road with a shove passengers describe as feeling their brain move. That makes the Turbo S a road trip with two bags, quick from a stoplight and composed two hours later.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S is booked by a customer who wants the fastest thing they have ever driven and does not want anyone to know. It suits an executive weekend, a road trip with a partner and two bags, and a renter who has already driven a loud Italian car and wants to be taken seriously by the valet rather than photographed by the crowd. It is also the booking for someone who wants to hand a passenger a launch-control moment they will describe for years. A renter chasing that same speed with a louder identity should look at a Lamborghini instead, since the Turbo S trades spectacle for a shape nobody looks at twice.
The Porsche 911 Turbo range is narrow. It runs to 2 power grades, the Turbo and the Turbo S, each offered as a Coupe or a Cabriolet. Our fleet runs the Turbo S, the top of the branch.
The 911 Turbo is the entry grade, with 572 hp and 553 lb-ft from a twin-turbocharged 3.8 liter flat-six, all-wheel drive and an 8 speed PDK. It reaches 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. Steel brakes are standard where the Turbo S gets carbon ceramics, and active anti-roll bars are an option. We do not run it.
The 911 Turbo S is the grade we run. It makes 640 hp and 590 lb-ft, drives all 4 wheels, and reaches 60 mph in 2.6 seconds. Carbon ceramic brakes, active anti-roll bars, rear-axle steering and center-lock wheels are standard. It feels calm until the throttle opens, and then it is the hardest accelerating Porsche we run.
Both Turbo grades are also built as a Cabriolet, with a fabric roof that operates on the move at low speed and an active rear spoiler that works around it. The mechanical package is unchanged. The Cabriolet carries more weight and gives up a fraction of a second to 60 mph. We run the Coupe body only, in Turbo S form.