This grey Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS with a red interior is based in Orange County, the all-wheel-drive, hybrid-assisted 911 in our fleet. A single electric turbocharger erases lag entirely, and the front axle takes up the slack a rear-drive 911 would leave to you. Book it for a morning when the pavement might still be damp.
The mechanism is the story here. A single electric turbocharger with a 54 horsepower motor built directly into the PDK keeps boost present at all times, so there is no lag left to hide, and the front axle steps in the instant the rear tyres ask for help. Combined output is 532 horsepower and 449 lb-ft, sixty in 2.9 seconds. On Newport Coast Drive, climbing toward Pelican Hill, the front end simply refuses to push wide even under hard throttle, and the car will rotate off the corner with a little coaxing from your right foot rather than resisting it. Rear-axle steering, standard on this trim, tightens every low-speed turn more than the length of the car suggests.
Grey with a red interior is the detail that separates this car from every other Carrera we keep, and it shows the moment a door opens. Shoot the cabin from the driver's door with late sun crossing the seats and the red reads as a genuine colour choice rather than an accident of the spec sheet. From outside, the darkened trim, wheels and GTS script read as detail against the grey rather than decoration. Frame the rear three-quarter for the wide hips and the centre-exit exhaust tips. Newport Coast Drive, with the ocean behind the car, is the natural backdrop for this one.
Of everything on our 911 Carrera row, this is the one built for a morning you are not sure about the weather. The front axle and the electric turbocharger mean there is no lag to manage and no rear-drive traction limit to respect on a damp Ortega Highway run. Compared with the rear-drive GTS we also keep, this car trades a slightly sharper edge at the true limit for a car that simply goes, wet or dry, and the red interior makes it a different car in a photograph rather than a repeat. If all-wheel drive and a cabin nobody else has is the priority, this is the GTS to book.
This is the 911 Carrera 4 GTS, grey over red, the all-wheel-drive version of the newest and most powerful Carrera trim we run. A 3.6 litre twin-turbo flat six hybrid, with a single electric turbocharger and a 54 horsepower motor built into the gearbox, makes 532 horsepower combined and sends it through all four wheels. Standard on this trim: rear-axle steering, a sport-tuned suspension sitting 10 millimetres lower, a sport exhaust, Sport Chrono with the mode dial, staggered high-performance wheels, a fully digital instrument cluster, and push-button start. Four seats, two doors, and a red interior that is the one visual signature nothing else in our fleet shares.