Only months ago we asked you WHICH Porsche 911 would be more desirable: The 991 with or without the turbocharger?
While we're waiting to see if the used Porsche 911 market rewards the naturally aspirated car, our friends across the pond have done something rather interesting. Autocar got its hands on a 991 equipped with the newly turbocharged six-cylinder mill AND one of the origial 991s using the naturally aspirated powerplant.
So, how did it shape out? See the writer's closing thoughts below:
...So I’ll leave it this way. The new turbocharged 991 is the better car and, should you require such a thing, the easy winner of this test. For 90% of not just drivers but 911 drivers, it is superior at least 90% of the time.
As for the engine, Porsche should be congratulated for doing so well a job that, I suspect, it didn’t much want to do in the first place. Just remember this: when you extract your 911 from its day-to-day drudgery and take it somewhere and let it go, it is old normally aspirated car that has the freer spirit, the more infectious enthusiasm. It is, in short, more like a 911. Or how a 911 used to be. However good this new car is, and it is very good indeed, it can do nothing to take that essential fact away...
Being that we're all enthusiasts here, I am just curious: Though the turbo'd version is better 90 percent of the time over the naturally aspirated car, would you still buy it over the turbo-less car?
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