Porsche 911 Carrera
REPORT 4
£84,870 OTR/£93,646 as tested/£1,010pcm
WHY IT’S HERE
Can ‘the only sports car you’ll ever need’ turn its hand to anything?
DRIVER
Ollie Marriage
“NOT ELECTRIC... YET.” IT’S A PHRASE THAT APPLIES TO THE PORSCHE
as much as it applies to the ship that takes Extreme E around the world But there’s one key difference Only one of them is likely to go electric And despite what’s written on the side it’s not the one that floats
It’s no secret that the generation launched in has been designed to take a hybrid system Given that for the last two generations the has worked on an eightyear cycle with a midterm facelift halfway through an enhanced complete with a hybrid version
is likely to be along in
Let’s assume a hybrid will be a plugin Given it already uses the spd PDK gearbox from the Panamera which has room for an emotor in it it would make sense to carry over further elements from that car Would the benefit of being able to do short journeys on electric outweigh the drawback of the extra weight on the dynamics? No Because as I’ve proved the is already efficient
But the hybrid will likely be merely a step to full EV Assuming Porsche sticks to the usual timescale the ’s replacement will be along in That one will probably be fully hybrid and EVready for the midlife update The next one will have to be EV only
We can pretty much guarantee it’ll continue to be the best car of its kind so I suspect fear that that car would find a willing audience A new audience for whom history and legacy means less and technological progress means more An audience that sees driver involvement as tiresome rather than the be all and end all And because it sold well and Porsche is a business the firm would just move on And there’d be us left in the dust bemoaning better days