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2015 Porsche 911 Targa 4S: New addition to the best sports car lineup holds its own Full disclosure here – I actually had an old 1981 Porsche 911 Targa in the UK many moons ago for short period. It was a lovely car and intoxicating to drive until the engine died and it ended up on blocks in my driveway. Motto - Never buy a car from an ex-race car driver!

Having this in mind it was a pleasure to recently test-drive the new 2015 Porsche 911 Targa. For the unenlightened, the Targa is semi-convertible featuring a fixed rear roll hoop with a removable center roof panel. The one in my old 81’ Targa was a pain to undo manually and store, but the rush of open-air motoring was well worth it.

No such drama in the new 2015 version which features a fully electric system that uses a complex – but fascinating to watch process that raises the entire rear hatch, balances it near-vertically over the 911’s hindquarters, and then folds the cloth top into a storage cubby just ahead of the rear-mounted engine.

The new 911 Targa homage looks wonderful and the rear upper Targa roof and pillar pays a thoroughly modern tribute to the original with its aluminum finish, three gills

By Veeno Dewan and a Targa badge and script. It looks great in profile and equally good with roof section up or down The 911 Targa arrives in Canada as a torque-vectoring equipped All-Wheel Drive model with a 350 horsepower, 3.4-litre boxer engine. A more powerful Targa 400-hp, 3.8L 4S is also available. Transmission is either a Seven-Speed Dual Clutch manual or a 7 speed PDK automatic unit with paddle shifters. The Targa 4S has a 0 to 60 time of 4.4 seconds, a full three tenths slower than the Carrera 4S Cabriolet and five tenths behind the Carrera 4S coupe.

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Due to the electric powered roofs motors and mechanics, the Targa has a 100 pounds weight penalty so making the car a tad slower than the fixed roof coupe.

The roof itself is activated by pressing a button. The entire lowering and raising process takes roughly 19 seconds and requires the vehicle to be at a standstill.

You can’t execute this on the move.

The all-red interior in the 911 is indeed a work of art with its perfect ergonomics; sports orientated dash and perfect finish. It is all high quality leather and superb high quality plastics and metal trim. Equipment levels are high with full power features, electrically adjustable power seats, parking sensors, cruise control, satellite radio, Bluetooth and navigation. I recently saw a documentary on the production process at Porsche and it is incredible to believe that the fastidious build and execution of the interior is entirely hand-done.

On the road, the wonderful soundtrack 911’s flat six is wonderful. At highway speeds with the top down, the Targa occupants will experience some buffeting; however cowl shake, the bane of soft tops is imperceptible — even over bumpy roads, The 911 chassis as ever remains firm and wonderfully communicative. The ride is also well damped as the Targa arrives with a slightly more forgiving softer suspension set up than the 911 Coupe to help the minimize Targa’s body shell to absorb more impact.

Note that the extra weight of the Targa 4does make itself know with slightly slower cornering than the Coupe and in straight line acceleration (5.2 seconds).

Still, there is nothing to be sniffed at here performance wise, and if you need more thrills, the Targa 4S with its 400 horsepower, 3.8-litre engine is the one to get for slightly faster motoring with a 0- 100 km/h in less than 5.2 seconds for the manual-transmission version.

The new 911 Targa is a brilliant new twist on the iconic and venerable grand master of all sport cars and well worth money it commands. The Targa’s classic design and has proven to be a real winner for Porsche in further distinguishing the 911’s familiar shape from other variants of the vehicle. The best looking edition of the 911 by far. It is not cheap, so raid the RRSP and be a devil!

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