Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabrio RENTAL

The salient thing about the Porsche 911 Carrera S cabriolet is that you can comfortably carry on a phone conversation at 70mph with the top down. Seriously, the automated wind deflector is that good.

So, too, is the rest of the car. In our testing, we found the 400-hp Carrera S cabriolet to be roughly equivalent to the 350-hp Carrera coupe, sprinting from 0 to 60 mph a 10th faster, in 4.3 seconds. The quarter-mile times of the base coupe and S cabrio were separated by an additional 10th, with the slightly quicker S droptop crossing the line in 12.7 seconds at 114 mph. The convertible stopped from 70 mph in 149 feet, and on the skidpad it pulled 1.03 g. These are not trifling numbers.

 

 

ABOUT porsche

Ferdinand Porsche founded the company called "Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH" in 1931, with main offices at Kronenstraße 24 in the centre of Stuttgart. Initially, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but did not build any cars under its own name. One of the first assignments the new company received was from the German government to design a car for the people, that is a "Volkswagen".  This resulted in the Volkswagen Beetle, one of the most successful car designs of all time.  The Porsche 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle. Porsche SE was created in June 2007 by renaming the old Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, and became a holding company for the families' stake in Porsche Zwischenholding GmbH (50.1%) (which in turn held 100% of the old Porsche AG) and Volkswagen AG (50.7%). At the same time, the new Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Porsche AG) was created for the car manufacturing business. In August 2009, Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG reached an agreement that the car manufacturing operations of the two companies would merge in 2011, to form an "Integrated Automotive Group". The management of Volkswagen AG agreed to 50.76% of Volkswagen AG being owned by Porsche SE in return for Volkswagen AG management taking Porsche SE management positions (in order for Volkswagen management to remain in control), and for Volkswagen AG acquiring ownership of Porsche AG. As of the end of 2015, the 52.2% control interest in VW AG is the predominant investment by Porsche SE, and Volkswagen AG in turn controls brands and companies such as Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Škoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche AG, Ducati, VW Commercial Vehicles, Scania, MAN, as well as Volkswagen Financial Services. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (which stands for Doktor Ingenieur honoris causa Ferdinand Porsche Aktiengesellschaft), as a 100% subsidiary of VW AG, is responsible for the actual production and manufacture of the Porsche automobile line. The company currently produces Porsche 911, Boxster and Cayman sports cars, the Cayenne and Macan sport utility vehicles and the four-door Panamera.