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Porsche 911 Turbo Tiptronic S – Road Test – Auto Reviews – Car and Driver
It had to happen eventually. An automatic transmission has finally found its way into that most macho of cars, the
. And we’re not talking one of the fancy computer-controlled manual gearboxes used on the Grand Prix circuit. The Turbo on these pages pumps its 415 horsepower through a torque-converter-fed, planetary-gear-modulated slushbox, fundamentally like the one found in any Ford or Chevy.
Just put it in "D" and off you go — as fast as you dare. We clocked the Turbo automatic to 60 mph in 4.2 seconds and through the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 112 mph. That’s only 0.3 second slower than the manual 911 Turbo we tested last September, although the gap does increase at higher speeds. Read the rest of this entry »