Porsche’s first hybrid 911 is right here. Meet the 2025 Carrera GTS

• 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS costs begin at $164,900.
• The automobile is in dealerships now.
• The 911 Carrera GTS has a 194-mph high velocity.

Porsche is a model steeped in custom, nevertheless it by no means stops inventing. That’s a tricky dichotomy to bridge, however the brand new 2025 911 Carrera GTS achieves it brilliantly.

Advanced options like hybrid energy, electrically assisted turbocharging, rear steering and extra coexist within the sports activities automotive with model pillars like a rear-mounted engine and profile that has developed for 60-plus years to make the 911 GTS effortlessly thrilling.

Here’s a have a look at a number of the options that make it relentlessly fashionable, but undeniably true to the Porsche 911’s pedigree:

The second electrical motor does what?

The 2025 911 Carrera GTS is Porsche’s first hybrid. What took so lengthy?

Adding a expertise born to scale back gasoline consumption to the 911 enhances relatively than reduces efficiency.

The GTS powertrain consists of a 3.6L horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine that produces 478 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque. An electrical motor that produces 53 hp and 110 pound-feet is constructed into the case for the GTS’s easy, quick dual-clutch eight-speed transmission.

Total system energy is 532 hp and 449 pound-feet of torque. If you’re new at this, the numbers don’t add up due to rounding, and since the gasoline and electrical energy sources don’t hit their peaks on the identical second. The electrical motor — and the electrically assisted turbocharger — are helpful as a result of they enhance energy and efficiency at low engine revolutions, earlier than the gasoline engine hits its stride.

A small electrical motor assists the turbocharger, which is in any other case powered by exhaust gasoline from the engine.

The motor makes the turbo’s energy enhance accessible sooner. Deliverables embody 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds and immediate energy once you mash the gasoline pedal at any velocity. The electrically assisted turbo relies on a system from Porsche’s 919 LMP1 prototype race automotive.

Porsche calls it an e-turbo, and the entire magnificent setup a T-hybrid.

2025 Porsche 911 trim ranges and costs

• Porsche 911 Carrera: $120,100
• Porsche 911 Carrera T: $134,000
• Porsche 911 Carrera S: $146,400
• Porsche 911 Carrera GTS: $164,900
• Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS: $172,700
• Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS: $186,000
• Porsche 911 Turbo: $197,200
• Porsche 911 GT3: $222,500
• Porsche 911 Turbo S: $230,400
• Porsche 911 GT3 RS: $241,300
• Porsche 911 Turbo 50 Years: $261,100

Source: Edmunds. All costs exclude $1,995 vacation spot cost.

Chassis magic

Rear-wheel steering is normal on GTS fashions. One of the most effective options drivers might not know they’re benefiting from, RWS will increase high-speed stability and reduces the turning radius. In conjunction with the 911’s variable ratio energy steering, the result’s exact, predictable steering and intuitive maneuverability.

The GTS I drove for every week from metropolis streets to fast-moving highways and winding nation roads had grippy, staggered 20-inch entrance/21-inch rear Goodyear Eagle F1 tires. The inside was quiet at excessive speeds and over tough surfaces, and the 12-speaker, 570-watt Bose audio system carried out brilliantly.

Front axle elevate of 1.5 inches helps clear velocity bumps and driveway entries to guard the entrance splitter.

Adaptive underbody entrance diffusers direct air to reduce drag or enhance engine cooling, as wanted.

The GTS will get firmer springs, specifically tuned dampers and anti-roll bars to compensate for the hybrid system’s further weight.

Key options: 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS

• Electrically assisted turbocharger
• Rear wheel steering
• Bose audio
• Eight-speed dual-clutch transmission
• Front axle elevate
• Matrix design LED headlights
• Active aerodynamics
• Push button begin
• Multifunction instrument cluster
• Wireless charging
• Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto

Attractive, straightforward to make use of inside

My GTS had a parcel shelf for rear storage and 4.8-cubic-foot entrance trunk, creating an admirable quantity of area for groceries, weekend getaway luggage or — on a sunny Sunday afternoon, safe supply of a pair of huge Detroit-style pizzas.

The 12.6-inch instrument cluster is totally digital, presenting clear maps, velocity, efficiency pages with torque curve, g-force and extra. A ten.9-inch show dealt with infotainment, wi-fi Apple CarPlay, Android auto and extra.

Controls included a handful of bodily controls for quantity, fan temperature, exhaust mode, adjustable shocks and extra within the middle stack.

The steering wheel has intuitive stalks for adaptive cruise management.

The conventional ignition on the steering wheel’s left is changed by a begin/cease button — a neat updating of Porsche’s legacy.

Why purchase a 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS?

Few automobiles on this planet match the GTS’s efficiency, seems to be and expertise. Porsche continues so as to add refined expertise that makes the legendary automobile concurrently simpler to drive in every day life and extra succesful on the monitor. The inside look and look and supplies are additionally evolving to enhance as Porsche explores ever larger ranges of worth and efficiency.

2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS at a look

Rear-wheel drive two seat sports activities automotive or all-wheel drive compact electrical SUV

Seats two

Base worth: $164,900. All costs exclude $1,995 vacation spot cost.

On sale now

Price as examined: $180,900

Power: Turbocharged 3.6L horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine, electrical motor

Total output: 532 hp @ 6,500 rpm; 449 pound-feet of torque

Transmission: Eight-speed dual-clutch automated

0-60 mph: 2.9 seconds

Top velocity: 194 mph

Quarter-mile time: 11 seconds

EPA estimated gasoline economic system: 17 mpg metropolis/24 mpg freeway/20 mixed. Premium gasoline.

Wheelbase: 96.5 inches

Length: 179.3 inches

Width: 72.9 inches with out mirrors, 80.0 with

Height: 51.4 inches

Cargo quantity: entrance truck: 4.8 cubic ft; rear: 13.1 cubic ft with out seats, 9.2 with

Curb weight: 3,536 kilos

Assembled in Stuttgart, Germany

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