The Porsche 911 GTS 2019 is so good that it makes me hate what I've become

We all fantasize about ourselves. We are more beautiful than we, smarter than we are, more morally pure than we really are. I thought I knew who I was. I would be at the forefront of the fun and cheap car. The Mazda Miatas from around the world, the jewels of Craigslist. Porsche 911? They could get stuffed, as far as I'm concerned. They were for the rich, the posers and the posers rich. Then I drove the Porsche 911 GTS 2019, and it was so good that everything else got worse.

(Full disclosure: Porsche wanted me to drive the Porsche 911 GTS to the point that I asked them for a Porsche 718 Boxster GTS, to which they replied "okay," but there was some confusion in the car. They ordered me and they very kindly put me in a Porsche 911 GTS instead, which had a full of gas when I picked it up at the airport. I am grateful and terrified that they did it.)

911 was – and may still be in a small part – an illustration of the worst "enthusiast" about cars. The kind of person who bought a "sports car" not because she wanted to have fun, but because she's a badge. The most terrible of all, of course, is the person who buys a new Porsche 911.

These people, yes THOSE people were vulgar. Coarse. New Rich.

They did well after going to a white shoe law firm in Yale, setting up shell companies for oil companies that removed all legal obligations after their tanker crashed. and killed all that was alive in a radius of 3000 km 2. And for their excellent work, they rewarded themselves with a Porsche 911. In general, a Carrera convertible or something else that I find divine, to my opinion.

Revolting.

Next on the list of people I hate the most would be the air conditioning 911 owners. Not only are they also new rich (you know they are, because Old Money will only drive the Range Rovers of the 90s), but they are also preachy. "I've never really felt better since I was driving an air-cooled 911", it was said with a smug smile.

"Nothing on Earth looks like an air-cooled 911," they would say. "Oh man, you should try a cooled Porsche", they bleat. "Have you tried making juice?", They added.

Ugh. Gross. Vegans from the automotive world.

Then, they would spend $ 91 billion in Bring A Trailer for an unnecessarily obscure variant of the 1974 Porsche 911. They will love their Porsche 911 RSJ4TR, driven by Jürgen Hanschustermann at the famous Targa Bore-io, a race that did not occurred only once because all the spectators ignited spontaneously.

Really, a decisive moment in the history of motor sport, and the association of this vehicle with this vehicle justifies its price.

The only Porsche 911 that I could barely stand in the neighborhood would be 996 generation Porsche 911 owners, because everyone makes fun of them and makes fun of them and makes fun of those who own them. I like the story of an outsider. . And also, because a Porsche 911 996 is really nice to drive.

At least until people realize that the 996, the mirror ball of all Porsche 911s, has a particular charm. Then, they all start to climb in the price for no reason.

My long and deep dislike of the Porsche 911 did not extend to everything Porsche made. The Porsche 914 looks like a brick plate and has a Volkswagen van engine, which makes it original and fun. The Porsche 944 is a day hero on a cheap track. The Porsche 928 is for people who are not ashamed of never leaving 1987. I love these people. The Porsche 968? Nobody even knows what it is. It's good.

That's what led me to ask for a Porsche 718 Boxster GTS for my trip to Los Angeles to visit Andrew Collins, who has mostly manhandled.

I did not end up with a Boxster. I ended up with a Porsche 911 GTS 2019.

And it was the joy of driving in shape.

I know, I know, a certain "Andrew Collins" of a dreadful website called "Jalopnik" said that a very similar car lacked "something" called "fun" some time ago. He also said that it "does not have a lot of personality".

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But the truth – the REAL TRUTH – is that Jalopnik Reviews editor Andrew Collins was on sick leave for the moment after a fall, and I can now say whatever I want on this blog. And what I mean is that I'm sorry Andrew, but the Porsche 911 GTS is excellent.

I know, I know, I hate myself even for writing this. But we will return in a minute to my disgust of self, because we must now speak of love. Love the Porsche 911 GTS.

It's not one of those cars where the old cliché says, "It's special from the moment you walk in." As soon as you enter, it's a rich man's car.

Leather, aluminum, Alcantara everywhere. A lot of nifty little buttons and a dreadful navigation system to make you feel that you've been overpaid and that you're back in 2004. Yes, there is a separate button for the navigation system AND the map, respectively.

Just like a lot of rich cars.

And once past the giant Porsche logo on the steering wheel, you'll notice how small the steering wheel is. At 14.1 inches, it seemed smaller than that of a 2019 Mazda Miata. You grab it with both hands and you feel about to fight a small antler. You put the keychain strangely in the shape of a Porsche, but not quite Porsche, in its small location to the left of the steering wheel, and everything happens in BARK! and everyone around you turns your head.

Yes, your worst fears are confirmed. Everyone around you knows that you are now the Porsche man.

So you decide to get out as quickly as possible from the car park in which you are. This is less painful.

You slip the Porsche double-clutch PDK transmission into the transmission and you come out with, it seems, a little too much haste.

The first thing you notice in road traffic is the rigidity of the suspension. And in a Nissan 370Z or whatever, this kind of rigidity seems inexpensive. It's not, not really, but in my mind, it's like "oh, the manufacturer could not afford to build this car so it went fast, so they made the suspension difficult."

Except in the Porsche 911 GTS, this gives the impression of being racy.

And then you turn the steering wheel a bit, and it looks great too. Nowadays, many cars are equipped with a wheel that quickly turns you into Popeye, because many car manufacturers think that the under-steered direction is synonymous with good direction, whereas it is really what you can feel on the road. The steering of the Porsche certainly requires a lot of effort to move, but it is the sensation that shocks you. You feel every little crack, every fold and every hollow in the surface of the road.

At first, my brain immediately thought that something was wrong – if I feel such strange things with the right front tire, the right front tire must be punctured, is not it? – but no, you just have to adapt to what it means. Feel like a little bit in your own life.

While all these thoughts swirled around my head, Kurt Bradley invited me to ride to Angeles Crest Highway, over the city of Los Angeles. He had a Porsche 911 GT3 Touring, you see, and he thought it would be fun to have a driving partner.

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On a winding path like this, I finally understood it. The 450 horsepower, 405 lb-ft twin-turbo twin-cylinder engine is raucous and noisy, barely damped by turbochargers. Porsche has gone so far as to remove any sound insulation in the GTS model, so that you can better hear it.

It grabs and grabs, the kind of car that lets you know that you will lack confidence before the car itself. The seven-speed PDK transmission blips and blocks the throttle, with each BLORT coming from the back of the car reminding that it's not a simple Infiniti.

He has a soul. It's savagery.

It's one of those cars we always ask for.

Agree, okay, so when you're done screaming like an idiot, everybody still thinks you're the "Porsche Man" who just makes enough money thanks to the virtues of plastic surgery or vampire capitalism or a vast legacy to get an obvious car, a Porsche 911.

But while before, I hated the Porsche 911 and all that accompanied it, I understand it now. I'm the guy who is looking at someone in a Porsche 911 and who knows they're having fun, despite the $ 130,000 that they would have spent for a light-weight GTS like this- this. I'm the guy who hears someone buying a Porsche 911 and says, "Wow, it's a great car."

I am the guy I hated.

But the Porsche 911 GTS is just as good.