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1. 2008 911 porsche sport chrono plus package driver#
2. 2008 911 porsche sport chrono plus package upgrade#

Thin blades of silver-painted plastic do the accenting around the vent grilles, and two minimalist cup holders, no doubt Nürburgring-tested with a Big Gulp, swing out from behind a narrow door pinched between the dash and glove box. Its surfaces are firm and unyielding, the airbags artfully concealed as if time had stopped before the invention of the crash dummy. The lines are now as hard and straight as the stripes on the German flag, the dash is available with a long, low shelf of French-stitched leather (part of a $4825 leather package that was not on our test car). In the cockpit Porsche has abandoned its fascination with rising dough forms. The standard 19-inch wheels and tires-the last Carrera offered standard 18s-are among the culprits. At 3290 pounds, this 2005 Carrera S is heavier than its predecessor by about 100 pounds. The reskin is subtle enough that only other 911 wing nuts will likely notice it at first glance. Highs: Shaped with some old curves, blatting exhaust, sharper controls, more fun. Porsche had modernized its derriere-engined darling right into a box, and the only way out, at least in some respects, was backward, with the return of a few Porsche 911 peculiarities that were lost in the last go-round. Coincidence?Ĭonsider that of five comparison tests to which we subjected the 996, the Porsche lost all save one, where it was pitted against unworthy opponents: a Jaguar XKR and a Panoz Esperante. A team of retired Toyota execs was consulting for Porsche at the time of the 996's incubation. It had less Porsche passion and more Toyota calculation.

Many here considered the 996 colder, duller, more remote, and cheaper inside. Both lap times and warranty items dropped with the 996 we drove over a 40,000-mile test, but the car just wasn't as fun as its frisky air-cooled predecessor. Launched in 1998, that first water-cooled 911 was all those things and a delight to drive. The outgoing Porsche 911, codenamed the 996 (see stories 65 through 95), was supposed to be the best faster, quieter, cleaner, more flexible, better built-the Swabian summit of ass-engine engineering. If backward is better, has the 911 hit an evolutionary dead end? The company achieved that partly through new technology but mainly by reversing the car back to better days of styling and attitude.

2008 911 porsche sport chrono plus package upgrade#

97, a road test of the new "997" model, we gotta ask, "What's next?" This 2005 Porsche 911 Carrera S-the S denoting a 29-horsepower, $9800 upgrade over the base $70,065 rear-drive Carrera, or a breathtaking $85,910, as optioned here-is the best Carrera Porsche has ever built.

2008 911 porsche sport chrono plus package driver#

The driver now quickly releases the brake – and prepares for maximum acceleration. The message ‘Launch Control active’ appears on the instrument cluster display. Engine torque increases and the clutch closes slightly. With the accelerator in the kickdown position, the system detects the driver's request for Launch Mode and revs the engine to an optimum speed of approximately 6,500 rpm.

Whilst the driver depresses the brake pedal with the left foot, the right foot depresses the accelerator pedal to the floor. ‘Launch Control’ is operated via the Sport Plus button with the ‘D’ or ‘M’ drive position selected. In combination with Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), the Sport Chrono Package offers two additional functions that are activated by the Sport Plus button.įirst, ‘Launch Control’, which ensures you achieve the fastest possible rate of acceleration from a standing start – on the racetrack, for example.