Stories tagged
911
The 911 gets its own tag because it turns up almost everywhere on groundspeed: at the handover, on road trips to Tuscany and Norway, at London meets and at speedsector.
These are not spec-sheet reviews. They are about what it is like to live with the car.
2 BEST FRIENDS, A 911 AND 2,000 KILOMETRES OF MAGIC
Six European countries in three days, in a black 911 Carrera, from Munich to Monaco and back. A trip that took years to make happen and three days for two best friends to live.Read the story
AROUND NORWAY IN 9 DAYS
Nine days of driving, a 911 Targa 4 GTS, fjords that don't fit in any photograph, and a range readout that at one point said 1,026 kilometres, something I never thought I'd see. Norwegian discipline, a 20-degree summer, and a track day to finish, so we'd remember why we went all that way.Read the story
I WENT TO A PORSCHE MEET IN LONDON. NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THE £250,000 GT3 RS
London, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 7:50 in the morning. Thirty people woke up without having to, started their Porsche and came here. On who they are, what nobody asks them, and what money doesn't buy.Read the story
LONDON TO TUSCANY IN A PORSCHE 911: THE ROAD TRIP YOU HAVE TO DO ONCE IN YOUR LIFE
Fifteen days, 2,500 kilometres, a silver 911 Carrera GTS, and Alessandra in the passenger seat. From London, through the Eurotunnel, Paris and Burgundy, to the hairpins before Tuscany - with a stop at a French petrol station that nearly ended it all. Part one of two.Read the story
I WAS ONCE THE KID ON THE RAILINGS: TWO SEPTEMBERS WITH SPEEDSECTOR IN RHODES
A Gumball clip I wore out on views somewhere around 2006, a humble Cayman loaded onto a truck under an F430, and two years in Rhodes - which taught me that we don't buy cars for other people, but for the kid hiding inside us.Read the story
THE THIEF OF JOY STAYED OUTSIDE: COLLECTING MY FIRST 911
Twenty years after the first time I sat in a 911 pretending to drive, I took a train to a place just north of Nottingham to collect my own. A story about dreams that take their time - with an F12 in the background, ice-grey seatbelts, and a heart rate of 160.Read the story