The 997 Porsche Turbo is the Best car under $75,000

 997 Porsche Turbo:

This is the ultimate everyday supercar, the 997 Porsche turbo. Now a snowball rally recently has completely worked my opinion on what is possible to drive year-round but let's check out something with a little more practicality.

 So this is the 997 generation 911 I remember when we reviewed the 2014 turbo as a lot of people were confused when we kept saying 991. That wasn't a mistake, it's actually both 991 and 911. So what do I mean by that. Well the number that a lot of people aren't familiar with, 997 or 991 in that case, is the internal code used by Porsche that designates a certain range of model year. So let's take a run back through history shall we?

 From 1963 to 1989 it was just called 911. From 1989 to 1994 we had the Porsche 964. Then we have the 993 generation from 1995 to 1998. Now that was the last of the air cooled Porsches. When they switched to water cooled for the 996 generation that upset a lot of purists hence why you're seeing a lot of these older 993s skyrocketing in value. 

So then we had the 996 which nobody really cares about because it's ugly from 1999-2004 and 2005 to 2011 we have the 997 that's what this is, this is actually a 2007, and then 2011 plus the 991 from the 996 generations to this car there was a radical overhaul thankfully the looks are much sharper we've got a new engine, new all-wheel-drive system .Under the hood in the rear of the vehicle, characteristic of 911s, is a 3.6 liter flat 6 twin turbocharged making 480 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque now that stock this vehicle is not stock and we'll talk about that in a bit. 

3,400 pounds, 5-speed automatic tiptronic transmission that's interesting you can either get a five-speed automatic in this year in 2009 we have the introduction of the PDK which revolutionized what it meant to have a fast shifting gearbox and honestly this tiptronic is not very good with its 3400 pound curb weight that 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds that's as fast as the much more expensive higher horsepower carrera GT so I mentioned this wasn't well thanks to a tune from APR on 93 octane it bumps from 480 to 560 horsepower and 660 pound-feet of torque on a hundred octane it goes all the way up to 610 horsepower and 700 pound feet of torque That's nuts.

 The best part is the tune only costs twenty-five hundred dollars the fact that you can get this car the base price of the 2007 turbo back then 130 grand, of course with Porsche just to have a seat belt that clips into a buckle is an option that cost a lot of money there now worth half that you can pick these up all day long for under 70 grand.

 Buy the tune and you've got an absolute monster of a car that's beautiful practical can drive it year-round pretty awesome let's put it in sport mode here so we've got porsche active suspension management or PASM for short that is a computer-controlled suspension constantly monitoring the road to allow to soak up bigger bumps in the road but also have a corner really flat when you're driving aggressively Porsche suspension is absolutely wonderful but my favorite part of all Porsches is the steering there's something about the size of the steering wheel the weight of the steering now they have gone from hydraulic power steering to electronically assisted power steering but they've done it in such a way that it still feels natural and you still feel that communication with the road there's just something about driving a Porsche.

 That special looking out over the hood it slopes down but you've got the two bulges where the front headlights are it feels like the sights of a gun pointed exactly where you want to go and just the smallest input in the steering wheel and the car darts from side to side it is so pleasing to drive now let's check out the Tiptronic transmission way way slower than the PDK down shift's wait and then a downshifted that's unbelievable i'm so used to from Porsche being almost the shift instantly.

 Oh my god even the upshift are slow huh wow I think you're going to get a pre-2009 porsche turbo you got to get it with the manual now it is very cold out we're on summer tire so the amount of grip is probably going to be low but it's nice having a rear-engine vehicle that's a lot of extra weight over the rear wheel for an extra take off its awesome seeing 911 take off from a standstill they squat down and just shoot forward with such speed it's really a sight to see now 0-60 on this car i imagine low three-second range is limited by the transmission now with the pdk gearbox i'm sure you'd be well into the mid to high to second range with 610 horsepower for sure the interior hasn't changed much over the generations we've got a very simple layout for chrono package gives us a lap timer in the center there we've got five round dial to give you information about the vehicle of course in the center is the tachometer because it's a Porsche race car that's the most important on the Left we've got something called the speedometer we don't really worry about that because this car is so quick it's best not to pay attention to that well.

I really wouldn't make sense testing such a powerful car without at least experiencing the acceleration more than a handful of times so let's punch it Oh in those turbos spool up wow that is an exciting feeling i love the blow-off valve too i imagine with the tune the turbo spool and blow off is more aggressive than before. 

Well I apologize in advance because now after feeling that the rest of this video is going to be comprised of me making weird faces as the car accelerates brutally wow when those turbos kicks in that is fantastic one thing is if you do lose control in a 911 and you start to slide that rear and spins around quick i was doing some drifts in the parking lot and making sure to counter steer quicker than normal because otherwise a little bit too much gas and you spin a 180 instantly.

 Now i will admit one component of a supercar is the sound and to be honest 911 turbos pretty much sound like powerful vacuum cleaners those turbos sucks the life out of the exhaust and you don't get that beautiful flat six sounds like you do in the gt3 and gt3 RS it is a bummer because even the carrera s with the sports exhaust sounds better than a 911 turbo and you're paying much more for the turbo I'm hoping that after ferrari what they did with the 488 now I haven't actually been in one but I hear that they've done a decent job of making it sound naturally aspirated it's not as throaty and aggressive as the 458 but it's definitely less of a vacuum cleaner than the 911 turbo is so hopefully the next generation after that i'm hoping they'll bring an epic exhaust. 

The seats in the 911 are very very comfortable we don't have the largest side bolsters but something about the design that kind of reminds me of a penguin here hold you in place very nicely you also are set up in the perfect position for spirited driving instead of the seat exactly how you want to feel like you're on top of the road and visibility is absolutely incredible especially compared to its competitors something like an audi r8 the rear visibility.

 We've got a massive rear window side visibility and the frontal viewing area is great of course something special with the 911 is the ignition located on the left side of the steering wheel the reason behind that was in old racing they would actually start outside of their car they would jump in and put the car in first year and with the Porsche it was easier they figured out to put it on the left side so that you can slide the key into the keyhole while putting it in gear at the same time to start the race quicker pretty cool trivia well.

 I very much enjoyed my time with the 911 i do really think that this is one of the best if not the best sports cars under 75 thousand dollars you can pick some of them up for low sixties you throw tune on it and it is absolutely ridiculously fast even in stock form of course it is very fast as well such a fun car to drive it's comfortable its practical nothing you can really hate about the 911.

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