Porsche 911 Turbo S gets new lightweight and aero kits
Performance-boosting options include shaving 30kg off the kerb weight and the introduction of a bigger aero packagePorsche has developed new Lightweight and Sport option packs for the new Porsche 911 Turbo S, both of which boost the flagship 911's performance even further.
Tick the box for the Lightweight pack and you'll strip up to 30kg of unnecessary weight from your coupe – although some sacrifices are required if you opt for it, and we're not talking about the many thousands of dollars it's expected to cost.
To cull those kilos, the 911 Turbo S adopts slimmer acoustic glass, a pair of lightweight bucket seats, a twin oval sports exhaust outlets in place of the standard car's quad-pipes and PASM Sport Suspension adaptive dampers, which presumably add some weight but compensates with better ride and handling.
The drawback of the diet is the Lightweight pack sees the rear seats ditched and most of the sound deadening deleted, making the 911 Turbo S a noisier, less practical car if you're lucky enough to have one as a daily driver.
The new Sport option, meanwhile, is claimed to further improve the Porsche supercar's aerodynamics by adding a large front splitter and wider rear wing, while coupe models also get a carbon-fibre roof panel.
Plenty of style upgrades are also possible with the Sport pack, including more gloss accents, different tail-lights and a set of gloss back 10-spoke alloy rims.
Even the rear diffuser is available as a painted part.
Porsche has not announced pricing or how much extra downforce the new aero parts add. Nor has it revealed whether the 30kg weight-saving of the Lightweight pack boosts the standard car's phenomenal level of acceleration performance.
Revealed earlier this month, the 2020 Porsche 911 Turbo S comes powered by a twin-turbocharged 3.8-litre flat-six cylinder that pumps out an almighty 478kW and 800Nm.
That's enough to launch the all-wheel drive 911 range-topper to 100km/h in just 2.7 seconds and on to a top speed of 330km/h.
Arriving in Australia in the second half of 2020, the new Porsche 911 Turbo S will cost $473,900 in coupe form and $494,900 for the cabriolet (not including on-road costs).
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