The Porsche 911 Carrera GTS appears typically forgotten on this planet of 911s, the place Turbos and GT3s continually make headlines. But it should not be. With glorious dynamics, beauty, and 473 horsepower from a twin-turbo flat-six, it is probably the greatest efficiency automobiles on sale at present. Judging from this video out of Germany, it seems to be straightforward to achieve almost 200 mph behind the wheel of a GTS.

The people at AutoTopNL managed to get their palms on a brand new 911 Carrera GTS for some testing, going straight to the Autobahn — Germany’s continuously speed-limitless freeway system — to see simply how briskly the mid-range coupe may go.

The driver may be very shortly capable of crest 300 kph (186 mph) earlier than reaching the GTS’s manufacturer-claimed prime pace of 312 kph (193 mph). They do not let off as a result of the automobile has nothing left to provide, however moderately as a result of there’s fast-approaching site visitors forward. We have little question this 911 would’ve been capable of exceed its listed prime pace if it got sufficient room.

This explicit GTS is supplied with Porsche’s non-obligatory Lightweight bundle, which will get light-weight bucket seats, thinner, lighter glass, lowered sound-deadening, rear-steer, and a special aero setup, for a complete weight financial savings of 55 kilos. That’s not a lot, but it surely may’ve been sufficient to coax out the additional thrust seen on display screen.

It’s additionally price noting that within the two occasions we see this 911 GTS crest the 300-kph mark, it is sitting in sixth gear, moderately than eighth. It’s demonstration of how seventh and eighth gears in Porsche’s PDK dual-clutch transmission work as overdrive gears, meant extra for gas financial system than efficiency. This video is simply proof you will by no means want greater than sixth gear on a race observe.