2017 Porsche 911 Turbo / Turbo S Driven: Happily, Almost Exactly Like the Outgoing Turbo

-I’m sitting in the passenger seat of an updated 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo S in the pit lane of the reborn old Kyalami race circuit in South Africa. Sitting left seat is Jörg Bergmeister, a Porsche factory race car driver and a man I see with some frequency on Porsche media trips. He’s here in South Africa to lead packs of journalists around the supersmooth new circuit in 911 Turbos and Turbo S’s, and he seems perfectly happy to do so. In fact, he always seems happy, ever ready with a smile, unless you try to bump-pass him on the last lap of a race. Still, in all our meetings I have thus far prevented myself from ever calling him the Burgermeister Meisterburger, at least to his face. But right now he’s chatting with someone outside of the car. I haven’t the slightest clue what the two are talking about but, because they are speaking German, it sounds serious, dire even. READ MORE ››

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