Porsche 991 Turbo Unleashed

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The Porsche 911 has been with us for decades now, but just rewind 40 years back when Porsche unveiled the first 911 Turbo at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Did the Porsche superiors ever wonder what the 911 Turbo would be like 7 generations later?

With the new 991 model, the Turbo evolves into a wider more muscular car. Slighly raised and curved hips give the new Turbo a sexy look while in the back we see a clean design with with big airvents, hinting at the 918 concept design. For loyal Wild Speed followers and readers however, the 991 Turbo’s looks shouldn’t have been too much of a suprise.

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More Powerful, yet more fuel efficient…

The all-new 911 Turbo boasts outrageously insane performance numbers. We’re talking 514 bhp for the Turbo and 552 bhp for the Turbo S, all from a new twin-turbocharged 3.8-litre flat-six petrol engine that’s more powerful, yet more fuel-efficient, than the 997’s engine.

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So, you must be wondering what handles all of that fearful power, well what else but Porsche’s very own seven-speed PDK transmission. Porsche has opted for the PDK to be available in the 911 Turbo simply because it increases fuel efficiency and boosts performance by seamless gear changes. On the note of seamless gear shifts, the 911 Turbo’s acceleration is sublime, Porsche say the 911 Turbo can hit 62mph from naught in just 3.2 seconds and 3.1 seconds for the Turbo S. Keep your foot down enough and you’ll be hitting 197 mph.

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The handling will be the golden question. Porsche has developed a four-wheel-drive system that features an electronically controlled and activated multi-plate clutch. The rear wheels can steer too for extra handling capabilities.  The Turbo S will also feature an active suspension system, active engine mounts and carbon-ceramic brakes, pushing the 911 Turbo to its extreme.

However, something very new has arrived on the 911 Turbo; Start/Stop. Yes, we all know what you’re thinking, ‘why?’. Well, a system like this seems awkward in a Porsche, but every manufacturer has to keep to very strict new emmission rules, meaning the Stuttgart engineers had to scour through a plethora of ways to increase fuel efficiency. And since you can turn the start/stop function off, it’s just a way to slightly get around the strict rules. The upside from all of this is that the 911 Turbo, unlike its predecessor, can achieve up to an EU combined fuel of 29.1 MPG, an improvement of about 16%.

The new Porsche 911 Turbo costs £118,349 for the standard model and £140,852 for the Turbo S. First customer deliveries will be in September.

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2015 Porsche Cayenne Facelift Spied In Disguise

Porsche has been going all-out with releasing new models over the past 2 years including the all-new Boxster, Cayman and 911. Even though Porsche have been busy ensuring these new cars have hit the production line, they’re focusing reinvigorating models such as the Panamera which will make its debut at the Shanghai Auto Show later this month. In the hopes of the Macan and 918 Spyder nearing production, the Cayenne is left for the Porsche engineers to concentrate on.

Since 2002, when the first Cayenne was put into production, the Sports Utility Vehicle market has expanded rapidly forcing Porsche to keep up with fast growing demands and rivals from marque’s including Audi, Mercedes and BMW.

Having already released the second generation Porsche Cayenne in 2010, Porsche has decided it requires a facelift.

The facelift appears to feature a revamped front bumper with integrated LED’s behind the grilles, new headlights which appear to be cornered off and taillights which will most probably feature a new LED layout giving the updated Cayenne a neat finish.

A 3.0-liter V6 that develops 413 bhp and 385 lb-ft of torque could possibly find a home in the 2015 Porsche Cayenne S. An E-Hybrid variant is also a possibility which could feature a 316 bhp 3.0-liter V6 engine and a 94 bhp electric motor.

Expect the 2015 Cayenne to debut sometime next year.

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