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Somehow, they made it better.
- I drove a 2020 $140,830 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S - the latest version of the world's greatest sports car, now identified as the 992.
- My test car had a twin-turbo boxer six engine, making 443 horsepower and 390 pound-feet of torque.
- It was very, very fast - 0-60 mph in the realm of three seconds (Porsche says 3.2 seconds, to be exact).
- But the 4S is also a dream to drive hard, thanks to its impeccable all-wheel-drive system.
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I'm a total sucker for the Porsche 911. The stalwart from Stuttgart, in continuous production since the early 1960s, is in my book the greatest sports car money can buy. Porsche has been steadily perfecting it for decades, and although the company sells a lot more of it popular Cayenne and Macan SUVs, the 911 is the real deal and the car that has amassed credibility as a road warrior and track weapon alike.
My 911 of choice is the Carrera, the base model, 97 grand and about 380 horsepower from the exquisite, rear-mounted flat-six engine that has always defined the nine-one-one. It's plenty of car for me: 0-60 mph in four seconds, noisy but not raucous, rear-wheel-drive, telepathic steering.
That's not the 911 I most recently drove, however. Instead, Porsche loaned me a $141,000 Carrera 4S, making more than 60 additional horses with the most stable high-performance all-wheel-drive system on the planet. This is the 992 edition of the car, the eighth generation of the legend, all-new for 2020.
I'll cut to chase and say that this thing ... jeez Louise ... it's so, so, so, so, so good.
Read on to find out why.
Photos by Crystal Cox.