Porsche 911 Turbo S "Clash of the Generations" Drag Race Offers Perspective

The 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S can't claim it is the ultimate drag racing machine either, but that doesn't mean its performance isn't mind-bending. The car seems to pluck grip out of thin air and always finds ways to deploy its might in the most efficient way possible. More often than not it leaves its rivals in the dust; depending on how clean the road surface is, sometimes even literally.

But should we really be that surprised about how good (I misspelled "good" by skipping one "o," thought about leaving it like that, decided not to in the end) the 992 Turbo S really is? Wasn't the 991.2 Turbo S just as rabid when it came to picking up pace?

Well, we could give you an answer, or we could leave the guys over at Full Torque to illustrate it by pitting the two latest generations of the German model against one another. Obviously, it's not the winner that's in doubt here, but the winning margin. Will the new model show the old one how obsolete it is, or is it going to be a closely fought battle?

Well, the paper says it's a no-brainer. With 70 more horsepower and a quicker 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) sprint time by 0.2 seconds, the 992 should have no problem making "car length" the measuring unit for that winning margin we were talking about earlier.

The guys have two races, and it's a very good thing they do because one of the lanes had a terrible surface that severely affected off-the-line grip. The 991.2 is the first to use it, and it nearly causes a crash as the tail begins to wiggle under acceleration.

In the second run, it's the 992 that takes the troublesome lane, and the new car seems a lot more stable. Despite the fact its driver once again displays octogenarian reflexes - and that might actually lead to angry e-mails from insulted octogenarians - and it's in the start section with poor traction, it still manages to catch and overtake the 991.2 very quickly, demonstrating its supremacy once again. That's what we call "progress".