When Porsche first unveiled the new 911 GTS, it is safe to say that many people on Planet Earth were not pinning for hybrid 911. The idea of one of the world’s most prestigious sports cars is a concept to take a cue from politely, which is a bit difficult for average auto enthusiasts.
But they should try, because Porsche is posted by Porsche in the new 911 GTS, Porsche’s first hybrid sports car is properly impressive. It is a hybrid system that exists to not improve fuel consumption, but in fact a sports car slightly thanks and gives better thanks to the injection of a slightly high voltage and promotes too much.
Tech fulfills tradition
911 has maintained its stubborn rear-aged layout from the beginning. Its motor is between the back wheels and back, because it is necessarily the best place for handling, but just because it has always been done. It does not change with 911 GTS. However, what is new, in addition to an electric motor in the mixture, enhances that gasoline engine into a-back. The new motor sits neatly inside the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, including 54 horsepower and a 29-pound-fit torque.
Those numbers are rarely notable, but the real magic is what the car does with its new high-voltage system. In fact, there is a second electric motor, a small small warm temperature is capable of avoiding. This is required as it remains within the turbocharger.
A turbocharger is a simple wheel that rotates by exhaust gas. This in turn rotates another wheel that forces the air in the engine intake. It is a simple technique that developed well 100 years ago, but since the early days of forced induction, there has always been an issue when it comes to motor vehicle applications: gaps. The dependence of exhaust gases to spin the turbocharzer creates an internal delay between the driver that requests acceleration and the car actually distributes it. To give more power to internal combustion, sucking in more air requires pressure to spin the wheel.
Porsche short-circulated that this novel with electric motor that spreads turbocharjar in less than a second time up to 120,000 rpm. The lag has not been completely eliminated, but it is so fundamentally reduced that you hardly know it. In addition to the torque provided by the electric motor in the transmission, the pair with a quick kick, and you have something magical: a car operated by the gasoline that is sharp with all the immediate speed of an EV.
Design sensitivity
Porsche calls the entire system, as well as a 1.9-kwh battery that gives it strength, T-Hybrid. 2025 911 GTS has net results 532 hp and 449 lb-fit torque. This is an enough, 59-HP boost on old GTS.
Nevertheless, the only clear indication is that anything is different about this car. Subtle T-Hybrid badges are less mounted on the doors. And this is a good thing, because I have the opinion that the present-day 911 is called 992.2, one of the most beautiful cars on the road. Even in this certainly understood chalk color, it is absolutely striking. Color pairs with a 20 -inch front and 21 -inch rear black wheels and other ebony highlights around the car.
The interior is equally minimal, monotone for an extreme. But materials such as carbon fiber and alkantara have sufficient subtle attractions, which make it feel infinite and purposeful, not basic. And, if you want, you can go with many more wild interior combinations. Porsche you are happy to customize your heart content, but be careful that it is going to spend you.
The interface of the car is also simple compared to 911s. Most controls are consumed by the car’s petit 10.9-inch touchscreen, which serves both wireless Android auto and Apple carplay, while a curved, 12.6-inch virtual gauge cluster is behind the steering wheel. Providing strong tact ability to your frequent tasks, what physical controls are, are well deployed. Perhaps the most important drive mode dial is mounted on the steering wheel at four o’clock. This is how you dial to the intensity of 911 GTS. Or, push the shiny small red button to go completely frantic.
Driving
GTS is not the most powerful 911 of Porsche. This honor lies in 640-Horspower 911 Turbo S, but no other 911 gives such power, the internal combustion offers the taste of the immediate shaking of mixed with fury and high speed acceleration that you will expect from 911.
This is enough to say, quite intoxicating. And to get its best taste, push the above Crimson button. This gives you 20 seconds of the game reaction mode, helps in maintaining maximum power with the electronic turbocharger of the car. The exit opens completely, the transmission drops a gear or two and suddenly the machine that you were inactive through traffic, completely survives.
Keep your legs down in this mode and move 911 GTS forward, without a moment of hesitation. You can hear the turbocharger behind the whistle of your head because it works to create pressure, the air from the environment and the correct cart in the combustion room for the next It is addictive, but if you are used for the silent growth power of an EV, it is probably a little too much. In sports mode, standard game exhaust on GTS is enough to hurt anyone loudly, which you increase in the past on two-lane road.
Thankfully it is easy to silence GTS. A tap of the exhaust button installed under the touchscreen and GTS calms down. This is not calm to EV, but a lot. Despite having electric motors and batteries, it is not a plug-in hybrid. You will also struggle to get out of your driveway without firing that engine. But this is fine. Remember: This is not a efficiency drama.
In normal mode, the suspension softens and ultra-fast transmission infection occurs in some that smoothly slips from one gear to another, keeping the fuel consumption as much as possible to maximize the consumption. It gives 911 GTS to a 19 MPG joint rating according to EPA. Despite some bits driving, I improved a large extent to manage 25.1 MPg.
But even at its most tame, GTS is not an Eston Martin DB12 or Mercedes-AMG GT’s choice of luxury grand tourler. In its most soft, the suspension is still firm, the noise of the road with those unique tires is having a hassle and even the air noise at high speed is a disturbing – so much that the middleing bose sound system struggles to remove it.
Therefore, despite the GTS Monicer, it is more than the sports car than a grand tourler. Instant Power is the party trick of this car, which is combined with amazing feel, spontaneous handling and the kind of unique grip that will make your favorite driving streets feel.
There are all more reasons that are to find your new favorite roads. Despite punishing you on the highway and on a broken asphalt, 911 GTS never provokes and always leaves you more willing. This is a car that you would not like to get out, which probably tells why I am writing this very punishment from the driver’s seat.
Entry cost
To begin with more than $ 170,000, or configured $ 196,185, it is not an affordable machine. What I was buying, my GTS would be a bit cheaper. I stick with a rear-drive GTS model, instead of all-wheel drive Carrera 4 instead of you, you see here, just for fun-work. I also release sunroof, which adds $ 2,980 to both and a car weighs that already receives more than 100 pounds compared to former GTS.
Those two deleters alone will still be cut by about $ 10,000 from that time. Expensive, yes, but the technology here seems worth it. It is a novel approach to electrification, which rarely creates a sports car sports with any agreement. It is actually a desirable machine, the kind of hybrid that Porsch fans will not know that they do not need, but one needs to try to try them.
