- No need for a big book, it is a story in itself, a legend. Or rather, the prologue to the Porsche brand.
The Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet, a convertible version of the 911 that can be accompanied by the wind. It's inherently more romantic. Whether driving or riding, the beauty of direct contact with the wind and the sky is far from being comparable to opening the side windows.
However, the regret of the convertible is precisely its roof, and the huge open-top mechanism will often become a "small school bag" after closing, which will affect the side of the whole car. But this innate deficiency has come to an end to this generation of 911s, whether it is open or closed, the side lines of this Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet are infinitely close to the near-perfect waist of the hardtop version.
Of course, even a Cabriolet is also named 911, so driving is the most wonderful thing about it. The short three days together are doomed to be unable to describe the full picture of the car, but this does not prevent the car from transmitting its most classic driving control "taste" to me.
Simple and straightforward, this is the charm of this 911.
Porsche has been innovating a driving machine for 70 years, and all I can do is not just evaluate it, but enjoy the gift. I believe that for anyone who loves driving, when faced with such a car, all they need to do is to enjoy the beauty of driving.
Too simple complexity. This is a sentence that I have been thinking about for months to squeeze out, to summarize this 911, which can probably describe the feeling it brings me.
Supercars, most of them unruly and difficult to navigate for people without extensive driving experience, but the 911 never refuses to provide pure driving enjoyment for ordinary people. Because it is too simple to open, solid, firm, meticulously stable, light, flexible, free to do whatever you want. Any expectation of a high-performance car, you can cash it out on this car. This feeling is difficult to convey in words, but as long as you have the opportunity to hold the steering wheel, you can intuitively feel it.
The throttle brake direction, as the three basic operating ports, links the driver with the vehicle, and the seat acts as an auxiliary to the steering wheel to convey the right road information, what you need to do, accept the information that these "nerve endings" bring you, process, respond, and then enjoy running.
The Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet has a heavy and very tight steering feel, which is the feel of hydraulic power steering, and it naturally produces a sense of stability in the hand. And its directivity is neither the tendency of the head pusher like the front drive, nor the setting of the rear drive to be more oversteered, but an extremely neutral directionality.
The foot feel setting of the throttle is highly consistent with the characteristics of the steering, and the damping sensation is higher than that of ordinary performance cars, which can help you still have stable control when driving intensely, and even find the right throttle opening in a very delicate way to better control the bending speed, such as the arm to make the finger.
Even in such a comprehensive capability slot, I can still feel the outstanding performance of the brakes, it is not only the embodiment of the braking distance, the braking foot feel can show its true strength. High speed, heavy braking, which is a common condition faced by high-performance cars, the ability of this Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet is that it can bring a sense of braking stability and stability no matter what speed. What is more worth remembering is that its heavy braking will not make the driver have a strong forward inertia impact, but a sense of stability in sitting down.
Rear-drive, 3.0L twin-turbo horizontally opposed 6-cylinder engine, 385 hp, 450 Nm, PDK transmission, these are the messages written on this Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet business card. But these are not worth mentioning compared to the character it conveys.
The power layout of the rear-drive gives this Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet a very unique cornering feeling, when you are at high speed or heavy braking into the corner, the front axle does not have to bear the huge engine weight, it becomes very balanced, you will find that the front of the car for your steering instructions execution is surprising - why can it be so stable?
It is solid enough to make people feel a little sophisticated. Yes, precision is the first time I have become a sense of the body, not a sense of perception.
That feeling, like we will never use precision to describe a quartz watch, at best it is accurate, but it can be generously expressed with precision to express the soul of a complex mechanical watch. That's the beauty of thousands of parts coming together and being meticulous. The same is true for the 911, these large and small parts on the body are purely mechanical and lifeless, but when they are combined, they are endowed with a soul.
Next, I would like to mention the instrumentation of this car again. Yes, it's the classic five-in-one meter. From this instrument, it may be possible to understand why the 911 from generation to generation can always pass on the classics, without losing innovation, not to mention the clichés.
The instrument of this generation of 911 is a good interpretation of the deep meaning of these four words that have lasted for a long time. LCD instruments, of course, need, the four dials on both sides have actually become screens, and the UI interface is novel and powerful. Except for the two instruments at the farthest end that are easily obscured by the steering wheel, there is no flaw. The mechanical hands still stand in the largest and most important dial in the middle, which is responsible for making the blood of the person in front of them open. You see, good design is never about following the trend, but about applying new ideas better to self-expression, and the interior designers of the Porsche 911 know this well.
This simple instrument also reveals the unique understanding of the 911 designers on the classic inheritance and technological innovation, which is not the meaning of the 911, it is still the classic look, but the detailed experience is different everywhere.
Three days of contact time is too short, limited by this, we can not feel its different face in the track, for such a work can represent the ultimate understanding of human driving control to a certain extent, it is a pity. But for the 911, isn't the fun in everyday driving just as important, after all, a large part of its significance is that ordinary people can also enjoy and enjoy the fun of controlling this 385 horsepower.
A shallow taste of getting along, you can still have endless memories.
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