Acquaint yourself with the little details of the latest version of the Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is the poster-child of incremental evolution, and apart from its great leap forward with the 996-generation car in 1998, changes to the model have happened at a glacial pace, better measured in geologic time than in model generations.
As such, changes between this new model—codenamed the 992—over the preceding 991 model are a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it affair.
But never fear, here’s a handy guide to telling the new, eighth-generation Porsche 911 apart from its predecessors, so you too, can impress your way through a conversation about what is arguably the world’s most iconic sports car.
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While the new car’s silhouette is largely unchanged from before, its bodywork has been subtly revised. Now, all 911s will have a widebody, a trait once the purview of variants higher up the (extremely) tall model tree.
And that brings along a host of benefits, including wider tyres and wider tracks (the width between the tyres), allowing for more confident handling.
The skin of the car has also been reworked, though you wouldn’t be able to tell unless you have a mass spectrometer handy. The steel body panels have been replaced with aluminium ones, which bring about some weight savings.