997 Porsche 911 Turbo gets mid-life facelift
Porsche’s mid-life facelift for the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe and Cabriolet will be exhibited to the public for the first time at the Frankfurt show this September. The 911’s rear-mounted boxer-6 engine is now 3.8 liters instead of the pre-facelift’s 3.6 liters in size. The engine also now adds direct injection and continues to use the variable geometry turbochargers found on the 3.6 liter unit. The engine now makes 500 horses, up from 480 on the previous edition of the 997.
Porsche seems to also have come to their senses with the way they implement their manual paddle shift system. Before this, the shifters were buttons on the steering wheel and both the left and right side set of buttons could do both upshifting and downshifting. I found it quite unnatural, but apparently that was the way Porsche did things when I asked why they had that weird setup.
Well, with this new “997.5″, a proper set paddle shifters can be fitted – a simple setup of a right paddle for upshifts and a left paddle for downshifts. This is for the 7-speed PDK twin clutch transmission.
There is also something called Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV) which works together with the rest of the drive systems to route traction to the wheel with the most grip without losing some power via selective braking.
The new 911 Turbo will go for upwards of £101,823 (RM587.5k) for the Coupé and £109,048 (RM629k) for the Cabriolet. Of course, in Malaysia they go for much higher – RM1,373,000 for the 911 Turbo and RM1,409,000 for the 911 Turbo Cabriolet. The GT2 tops the pricelist at RM1,720,000.
Look after the jump for a hi-res photo gallery and videos of the updated Porsches.
VIDEO: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo – Exterior
VIDEO: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet – Exterior
VIDEO: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo – Driving
VIDEO: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet – Driving
August 11, 2009 @ 10:38 am
Its a Porsche.. facelifts mean absolutely nothing. They all looks identical save for some really minor details. But The drop-top versions looks kinda interesting, I like it, the coupe… looks the same. But now that tiny boxer produces 500hp.. those turbos must be ridiculous! Half a million for a Porsche is cool, but the insane government tax spoils everything… everything…
August 11, 2009 @ 11:12 am
government is insane.half million for new Porsche?keep on dreaming!!!
August 11, 2009 @ 11:32 am
Why cant we get the price of 500k-600k T.T
August 11, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
Let see if it can beat the GTR on the Nurburgring.
August 11, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
can it beat the GT-R now?
August 11, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
sweet car, sohai price…
August 11, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
very mild indeed….lol
August 11, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
whther this beats the gtr or not…doesnt matter…this is beautiful..its a supercar…gtr is too ‘techy’…no soul
August 11, 2009 @ 6:50 pm
Bolehland sure Boleh price.
August 11, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
Indeed… the match between this car and GT-R would not be an issue unless you just simply pursuit for the speed limit…. GT-R just a car that below million ringgit and this porsche 911 turbo almost can make 2 GT-R with the cost of it….Well…what i can do now is just sitting down and watch these photo….perhaps hit lottery still can’t afford to buy 1….hahaha
August 11, 2009 @ 11:34 pm
i ALWAYS have a hard time spotting the difference whenever Porsche does a facelift.
August 12, 2009 @ 10:45 am
I really don’t get Porsche. Are they really threaded a very thin line so to speak not to mess up the principle lines of the car? Their boutique’s merchandise has more creativity on differentiating from one model of a product to another.
I’d jump into Jeremy’s bandwagon. Simply put, they are plain lazy. Aiyooo….
August 12, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Sexy 911. Integrated tailpipes looks so nice!
The big spoiler brings back many good memories. So far, this is the only facelift that’s worth noticing.