Tes Jalan Porsche 911 GTS: Berkendara di Munich Kedengarannya Menyenangkan. Ini mengerikan. - Autoblog

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MUNICH — Menghabiskan waktu seminggu bersama a Porsche 2023 tahun 911 Carrera 4 GTS di Munich ternyata menghasilkan 473 tenaga kuda dari yin yang diharapkan dan tumpukan Yang yang mengepul. Yang tidak ada hubungannya dengan itu Porsche.

But let’s start with the sweetness embodied in this Ice Grey Metallic coupe. By now, we all know enthusiast scribes get the zoomies worse than a husky in winter’s first snow over four things: lightness, manual transmissions, brown wagons, and Porsche 911. Saya punya dua di antaranya di mobil ini.

The thing about the 911 is that almost everything said about it is true — at least, true enough to be a useful generalization. Sarcasm over the Darwinian pace of mutations? The cynic’s take on sticker packages and relentless special editions? Invective about the owners? Horror at the fantastically atomized and traumatically expensive options menu? All true enough.

Karena 911 mewujudkan yin dan yang miliknya sendiri, pihak lain layak untuk didengarkan; ada sakramen-sakramen dinamis yang menghapuskan dosa-dosa yang diduga. Kemudi preternatural cukup tajam untuk menyampaikan kandungan air di aspal? Akselerasi yang memprioritaskan penanganan dan cengkeraman yang dapat digunakan pada statistik spreadsheet? Badai knalpot putaran tinggi sehingga Big Pharma yang membuat ketagihan akan membayar dokter untuk meresepkan dosis tinggi jika memungkinkan? Semua ini juga cukup benar. Keseimbangannya telah berubah sejak zaman analog — penanganan yang lebih baik, nada knalpot yang lebih buruk, misalnya — tetapi 911 selalu berada pada kelas yang komprehensif, dan saat ini, seperti dulu, para insinyur Stuttgart menjadi yang terdepan di kelasnya.

Some demerits I could charge against the GTS could just as easily be taken as a compliments. Specifically, around town, it’s all relaxation and composure with zero sense of occasion. The easiest way to remember you’re in a 911 is to look at the people outside looking at your 911.

On the smooth, snaking roads between German towns, the GTS maintains the same demeanor – it’s just quicker and louder about it. Staggered 20- and 21-inch “Turbo S” wheels clinging to staggered, sticky rubber weren’t going to come undone short of velocities that would have had kamera kecepatan berkedip seperti paparazzi di Festival Film Berlin.

The only genuine dent in the armor was the exhaust note, done additional disservice by Europe’s mandated gas particulate filter. Over a surprising range of steady-state speeds, it was endlessly monotonous.

Dan Porsche harus menjual setiap 911 dengan termos, karena satu-satunya tempat cangkir yang dapat diakses pengemudi lebih meremehkan daripada cairan.

Cukup dengan itu. Hal ini luar biasa. Saat rekannya Byron Hurd mengulas GTS 2022, he called it “Just shy of perfect,” his archetype of perfection being a GT3. I call that an honest and reasonable assessment, and I agree with it. If you want the ultimate modern and subtle 911 daily without the playboy flamboyance of the Turbo or the arrogant flamboyance of the GT cars, the GTS marks the X that marks the spot. Especially if you live somewhere you can regularly run 160 mph on a four-hour perjalanan.

In keeping with Mr. Hurd’s financial wariness about the cost of perfection, I nominate a different paragon of the ideal, though: A previous-generation 911 that’s lighter, rawer, more alive. I admit to this being a fallacious and unreasonable assessment. Life, like a 911, isn’t meant to be enjoyed in reverse, so my thousand-yard-stare into the rearview mirror is a waste of time. Instead, I would likely be better served looking to the left, at the lighter, rawer, and admittedly less powerful 911 Carrera T.

Sad thing is, I wouldn’t look at either car if I had to have them in Munich again, which brings me to the hot, heavy paper bag full of yin I experienced over those seven days. The worst part of having a GTS for a week in Munich was not wanting to drive the GTS in Munich.

I’ve been writing for years about how European cities have taken up battle against perubahan iklim, dengan senjata termasuk ketat emisi undang-undang, zona emisi eksklusif, biaya kemacetan, disel bans, and the impending ostracism of the internal combustion engine. I think this Munich trip was my first intense experience of it, and it wasn’t fun. Until I was headed out of Munich, the car spent most of its time here:

Let me make the first of three interjections. Munich, with Germany’s densest population, has been a haven for molasses traffic for a while, and roped off zona emisi khusus di pusat kota pada tahun 2008. Pada tahun 2010, lalu lintas global perusahaan survei INRIX terdaftar di Munich keenam dalam daftar kota di Jerman dengan kemacetan terparah.

Despite that, this was the first time I decided to drive as little as possible, and I’ve been hanging out with cars in Munich for 20 years. There was more traffic throughout more of the day, moving even more slowly than I remembered. There were strangely placed and frustratingly low speed limits. The closer I got to downtown, the worse it got. There were road works in the strangest places, some of them looking arbitrary or abandoned and requiring ungainly detours. Dawdling there felt like getting around the west side of Los Angeles, where you accept that an eight-mile trip is going to take an hour assuming everything goes well.

Munich’s always been a bike town and everybody gets along with it. But there were new bike lanes flowing with cyclists and scooter riders who made every right turn a chance to get charged with vehicular manslaughter. I rode a bicycle for years; I’m fine with giving the right-of-way. But the hordes were effectively another lane of traffic between me and a right turn that usually lacked measures to make sure vehicles could turn safely. And the 911 doesn’t offer the most generous three-quarter view.

On my third day in Munich, I took a trip out of town with a local friend to Sternbergersee. As we hit the highway — then had to slow down to 80 km/h on a four-lane-wide stretch of Autobahn for no discernible reason — I asked her, “Has traffic in Munich got worse?”

She turned sideways in her seat to face me, took a deep breath, and said, not exactly at conversational volume, “Yes. It’s the Greens. It’s terrible.”

Dia berbicara tentang koalisi politik yang berkuasa, menyampaikan poin yang panjang lebar dan menarik bahwa Partai Hijau telah menjadikan mengemudi sebagai upaya yang tidak tertahankan dalam upaya mereka menghadapi perubahan iklim.

2R membagi dua BMW markas besarnya dan mengelilingi Munich

Time for my second interjection: I’m all for kendaraan listrik dan menyambungkan rumah saya dengan a pengisi last year. I’m an even bigger fan of clean air, clean waterways, clean power. I love the word “sustainable.” I don’t have enough thumbs to show how much I upvote a clean Earth.

However, certain implementations in certain places have made me wonder about the means being enacted to create and/or ensure one. Munich isn’t the first time.

I asked two other friends, Munich locals, the same question. Both told similar tales of political action and confounding traffic measures. I saw how seriously one of them took it when I had to return the key to the apartment I’d been staying in.

I usually stay on the west side of town by Nymphenburg Castle and BMW Welt (pictured above) where the 2R thoroughfare is a well-used connector. My friend who needed the key had a brisk response to that plan: “I don’t want you to have to cross town.” He told me to instead leave the key with a friend of his on the west side and he’d pick it up whenever he was over that way.

If “do not drive” is the next phase of what I’ve been writing about, or, heaven forbid, the endgame … well … wow.

Hal ini membawa saya pada kata seru terakhir saya: Saya harus mengatakan lagi bahwa saya berpikir this trip was my first experience with climate action’s confounding effect on traffic. That conclusion is based solely on anecdotal evidence from my friends. So far, I can’t find any English-language reporting relating the two. Munich’s traffic has got worse, though, regardless of the cause. In 2016, survei INRIX menempatkan Munich di urutan kedelapan dalam daftar kota-kota Eropa dengan kemacetan lalu lintas terburuk, ketiga terburuk di Jerman setelah Karlsruhe dan Stuttgart. Studi INRIX lainnya pada tahun yang sama menobatkan 2R, dekat tempat yang sering saya kunjungi, sebagai hotspot lalu lintas terburuk kedua di Jerman. Pada tahun 2022, Munich memenangkan piala. INRIX’s 2022 Traffic Scorecard menyebut Munich sebagai kota terburuk di Jerman dalam hal jumlah jam rata-rata pengemudi kehilangan lalu lintas setiap tahunnya dan kecepatan rata-rata mil terakhir paling lambat di kota tersebut.

I’m going back to Europe for an extended stay over the summer, and there will be a few weeks in Munich and around Germany. I’m going to try to connect some whats with some whys while there. And this time, if I end up with another car as cool as the GTS, I’m going to park outside town and ride a bicycle in.