C2s vs C4s handling when driving hard difference?
04-26-2021, 06:08 PM
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992 C4, Sport+, PSM off = oversteer on demand. Personal experience, did it regularly in winter on snow and ice, now and then in the dry just for giggles. Maybe not the case with previous-gen 911s, but undeniably the reality for the 992. While comparing steering feel and propensity for understeer in AWD versus RWD 911s from 964 through 991 gives steering feel and feedback edge to RWD, the 992 is a different beast.
On the street in the dry, unless driven like an idiot, all other options and setup equal, I doubt anyone but a Porsche chassis engineer could tell the difference; on the track, unless 7/10s and above driven by a skilled amateur racer or a pro, a driver would just be guessing AWD or RWD. (I love the story, apocryphal or not, about journalists who praised RWS in press cars that didn’t have it.)
As with many things about the 992, what was true with previous 911s just ain’t so any more. Time and tech march on inexorably, but our memories and biases hold us ransom to outdated ideas. Not so many years ago I was vehemently anti-turbo, then anti-PDK, dead set against wheels any larger than 19”, and as adamant as any that RWD trumped AWD for handling and hooning. Now I have a twin-turbo, AWD PDK car wearing 20/21 summer boots and it’s the best damn sports car - on all levels - that I’ve ever owned. And it’s a base, to boot (breaking the personal rule to ALWAYS get the S).
On the street in the dry, unless driven like an idiot, all other options and setup equal, I doubt anyone but a Porsche chassis engineer could tell the difference; on the track, unless 7/10s and above driven by a skilled amateur racer or a pro, a driver would just be guessing AWD or RWD. (I love the story, apocryphal or not, about journalists who praised RWS in press cars that didn’t have it.)
As with many things about the 992, what was true with previous 911s just ain’t so any more. Time and tech march on inexorably, but our memories and biases hold us ransom to outdated ideas. Not so many years ago I was vehemently anti-turbo, then anti-PDK, dead set against wheels any larger than 19”, and as adamant as any that RWD trumped AWD for handling and hooning. Now I have a twin-turbo, AWD PDK car wearing 20/21 summer boots and it’s the best damn sports car - on all levels - that I’ve ever owned. And it’s a base, to boot (breaking the personal rule to ALWAYS get the S).
Last edited by gcurnew; 04-26-2021 at 06:41 PM.
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