2022 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Road Test: Just shy of perfect
, it’s one of those cars with a reputation so well-established that people feel confident forming an opinion about it even if they’ve never experienced one for themselves. In other words, perfect magazine racing fodder. Yet, nI’ve driven more 911s than most and fewer than many, and even I've been guilty of making up my mind before actually turning the key for the first time. My pre-existing notions were accurate as often as they weren’t.
Like “911” itself, “GTS” sets a certain level of expectations. Those letters say “this is the one you’ll want to keep driving," even if that may seem a bit redundant for a 911. They tells us that we should expect a package that includes a chef's menu of performance upgrades that make 911s more fun to drive, mated to a correspondingly sufficient quantity of creature comforts, and nothing more. Also, since it’s a Porsche, you pay more to get"less.
Our evaluation car was a rear-wheel-drive model with the seven-speed stick and a blessedly succinct window sticker: just 15 items — six of which merely enumerated the options in the GTS Premium package. If it had been blank apart from standard equipment, our tester would have stickered for $138,050. In this market, a meaningless figure, but it’s what the piece of paper said.
Ours rang the till at $152,700. Among the $14,650 in options were Porsche’s rear-wheel steering and front axle lift systems, ventilated leather seats and the aforementioned upgrade package . Not barebones, strictly speaking, but remarkably restrained for a 911 build list.
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