Buying a Porsche 911 is a stable gear like choosing a pizza. There are the fundamentals – pizza dishonorable tomato paste and mozzarella or in the case of the 911 a flat-six engine of some capacity or other cradled at the rear of a sports coupe or cabriolet – onto which you pile your choice of toppings.
Lately the permutations have been growth in seemingly never-ending numbers. Porsche has launched seven new variants of the 911 in the past 12 months a sure signboard that something's afoot. That something is an all-new 911 that will come along next autumn.
Meanwhile the latest and last version of the current 911 is the Carrera GTS available as either a coupe or cab and a perfect example of how Porsche can apply pizza-making principles to the business of producing some of the finest sports cars in the world.
The Carrera GTS is a sorting of mid-point between the meat-feast Carrera S and the Diavolo that is the GT3: spicy but easily digestible.
It pairs the 44mm wider torso of the 911 Carrera 4 and Turbo with the 408bhp 3.8-litre engine that's in the sportsman Classic and now the Speedster. Its lower front body section is from the Porsche Sport plan package while the enlarged side sills are like those in the extreme GT2.
Its gloss black force with single central fixing have been used elsewhere too but this is the first time they've appeared on a Carrera while the Alcantara cabin trim has been pinched from the GT3. There's nothing new here except the path the ingredients have been combined.
So it's no surprise when you start it up that it all feels reassuringly familiar.
Lately the permutations have been growth in seemingly never-ending numbers. Porsche has launched seven new variants of the 911 in the past 12 months a sure signboard that something's afoot. That something is an all-new 911 that will come along next autumn.
Meanwhile the latest and last version of the current 911 is the Carrera GTS available as either a coupe or cab and a perfect example of how Porsche can apply pizza-making principles to the business of producing some of the finest sports cars in the world.
The Carrera GTS is a sorting of mid-point between the meat-feast Carrera S and the Diavolo that is the GT3: spicy but easily digestible.
It pairs the 44mm wider torso of the 911 Carrera 4 and Turbo with the 408bhp 3.8-litre engine that's in the sportsman Classic and now the Speedster. Its lower front body section is from the Porsche Sport plan package while the enlarged side sills are like those in the extreme GT2.
Its gloss black force with single central fixing have been used elsewhere too but this is the first time they've appeared on a Carrera while the Alcantara cabin trim has been pinched from the GT3. There's nothing new here except the path the ingredients have been combined.
So it's no surprise when you start it up that it all feels reassuringly familiar.
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