Jeremy Learns To Love The Porsche 911 | Top Gear

you see you see there are two types two types of petrolhead you've got idiots like this who like the Porsche 911 and you've got people like me who'd rather have anthrax than a 911 because I'm the Ferrari person yes but when you actually owned a Ferrari you couldn't leave it parked on the street go out for dinner in it or anything because it spent the whole meal worrying about who was bumping into it or carving their name into its precious paint that's true I once left the roof off and it was so full of flame when I got but you could have swum home bugs and therefore as a result of that it spend its entire life caring at home in your garage and when you were eventually brave enough to want to use it by that time the battery was flight was opening yes I know but a Ferrari with a flat battery is an aesthetic thing you can enjoy looking at it that's but yes but it's not moving that's why I love the 911 because you can use it everyday to go to places it's a car and now there's a new turbo version which we asked him to drive in the hope he'd see the light this is the biggest 911 turbo they've ever made but it's still no longer than a Toyota Prius nope wider than a 3-series BMW and unlike a normal supercar it doesn't have Marilyn Monroe hips so it doesn't get stuck in multi-storey car parks what's more it's not like threading through traffic in a postbox in a Ferrari you can't really see where the buses are see got called them up but in this you can in a Ferrari you'd be forever worried about branching the nose on a speed hump but not in a 911 and it doesn't even harm the sky very much either it may have a flat 6 twin-turbo engine but it only produces few hundred carbon dioxide's that's 100 less than you get from the back of a Ferrari 430 we view drive this car through a really polluted city Los Angeles Calcutta Harrogate something like that the gas coming out of the exhaust pipes is less toxic than the air going into the engine and I'm not joking that's true this then is like a small efficient easy-to-use vacuum cleaner I should have called it the Porsche Dyson and it'll suck up your luggage too because unlike any other supercar it's boot is easily big enough for your weekly shop there is the peach and peacock the cornerstone of any Porsche drivers Sunday lunch and the still room left over for the ice cream made from the bones of your defeated squash opponent and you can use this car on the school run because it has back seats I mean obviously you'd have to have fairly thin children but then you would have because you've got a Porsche 911 so you'd have a thin wife I will concede them that there's no everyday situation that flummoxes a 911 Turbo and so because you can use it every day its battery won't be flat when the moment is right and your fancier drive the new 911 turbo has special variable vane turbochargers that always work whatever the revs you can even buy a special over boost facility which the brief moments can deliver 500 talks that gives it a very muscly field and it's got a special new four-wheel drive system that doesn't allow 84 upon you just get so much grip the eyes start to hurt capsular speed so when the Sun Goes Down you can really get cracking okay let's engage these stability management program and put it in sport mode let's change things a bit now every time I turn the steering wheel it feels like I'm drawing a line through the laws of physics is not driving this is pure Maps so how does it compare to my beloved Ferrari well it has a smaller engine but because of the scramjet turbochargers it produces 480 brake horsepower exactly what you get from the 430 but then this is lighter than the Ferrari thanks to aluminium doors which weigh just 11 kilograms each it's also 20,000 pounds less expensive sure it isn't as exciting as the Ferrari it's more about engineering than passion but I will admit the end results are astonishing let me give you some performance figures nor 260 3.9 seconds top speed near as makes no difference two hundred miles this is my favorite again 42:16 in second gear one second it's amazing because it's not just more usable than a Ferrari more practical but I think out here in the real world with crests and dips and bumps and blind brows I think it's faster as well a rift you you

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Id: stGRz7X9dZA

Length: 6min 37sec (397 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 28 2008