"No! You did it again. Never let the car roll." That's what Mike den Tandt, my 20-something German instrukteur, said as we caught the tail of the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo with much more than a dab of opposite lock. He was right, because we were doing it wrong. In our misguided effort to drive the new Turbo into the corners as smoothly as possible here, we were being too gentle and too timid. It appeared the only way to drive the new 500-horsepower all-wheel-drive 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo would be to grab it by the scruff of its neck and throw it past the apex on the gas, and always on the gas. Slow-in, fast-out. It is, and always has been, "The Porsche Way."

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He continued, "Nixt co-nah, brick ha-dah, off szoon-ah, then kvickly on zeh gaz. Don't let it roll — and you just missed the second apex! Tell me agin vhat you do for a living?" That's pretty much how our first-ever lap of the 2.7-mile Autódromo do Estoril circuit in Portugal went in the seventh-generation $133,775 911 Turbo. Our instructor seemed happy that the Porsche Stability Management (PSM), also known as "Physician Survival Mode" system was keeping a watchful eye on the attitude of the car, even with the racetrack-tuned "Sport Plus" button selected.



Mitigating Circumstances
Den Tandt admitted later with a chuckle that there was a very good reason the exceptionally capable car felt like a two-legged stool. He had immolated the car's 305/30ZR19 Bridgestone RE050A rear tires all morning long; first for the 10-plus passes for sideways, smoke-billowing video footage and again for our amusement as a passenger.

His tire-shredding session had essentially re-vulcanized the tires and, as the standard tire-pressure monitoring display revealed, had also pumped the rear tire pressures to over 50 psi. "Ya, this definitely changed the attitude of zeh kah for you," confessed den Tandt, laughing.

For our second day of lapping at Estoril, we found a brand-new set of rear tires (about $350 each) on the very same car. We also discovered the car's dynamics completely transformed for the better.

The Perfect Storm
In many ways, the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo represents a perfect storm. A whole set of disparate components and technologies have been floating around in the Porsche-sphere, either in racecars or production cars, and now combining them for the first time has produced a tempest that's ready to wreak havoc on unsuspecting adversaries of the 911 Turbo.

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2010 Porsche 911 Turbo First Drive and Video

 

i love the turbo my friends dad has one it one badass ride

 

Prettyyyyyy sure he doesn't have this one...

 

It looked like he was driving that around the track in automatic