Chris Harris Says the 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo Is Better than the 911 R

The British journo has recently been spending quite a lot of time inside 911s - after playing with the 991.2 Turbo S last month and releasing a short feature on his old Youtube channel (Chris Harris on Cars), he took to his similarly named Facebook page on Sunday to post the hilarious 911 R image you see here.

Chris returned to Facebook yesterday to give the world the 991.2 Turbo pic to your right, accompanied by the following message: "Best car Porsche currently makes. (Including the 911R)."

Shock and awe? Not really. After all, when we're talking about a Neunelfer edition you can't buy and one that would require monumental efforts to serve the purpose of a daily driver, it's not exactly surprising that this comes behind the do-it-all Turbo in the journalist's opinion.

No, really, I'm not surprised at all and that's because, for instance, I've always found the 911 GT3 to be a better car than the GT3 RS. Sure, the track assets of the latter and the cult machine status deriving from them are sweet, but I prefer the balanced melange of the "standard" car - isn't the 911 all about the balance by definition?

Returning to Chris Harris, his well-known love for Zuffenhausen machines seems to take strange forms recently. For one thing, if you check out the Youtube video below, it will all seem like he's praising the facelifted Turbo S.

However, the full version of the clip, which is only available on the website of journalist's new "employer", Top Gear, you'll notice a different attitude. To be more precise, the journo seems to lose his usual uber-enthusiasm when talking to us from inside the Turbo S, but we can't show you that clip because TG won't allow for its videos to be embedded.

In a move that's easier to understand, Chris recently intrigues many of his fans by talking about the track and value-for-money superiority of the Dodge Viper ACR over the GT3 RS while flogging the first around the Dunsfold test track. Once again, we only brought you the short, Youtube version of the footage, because TG...

With Porsche engineers now working overtime to complete the development of the GT2 and the 991.2 GT3, we shouldn't have to wait that long before seeing how these shape the Brit's taste for Porschas.

P.S.: Perhaps non-linear opinions delivered by influential aficionados like Chris Harris will determine Porsche to change its current development direction, which seems to make the 911 more and more difficult to reach for the non-millionaire gearheads out there.