Ron here. I’ve driven most of what’s in this fleet at this point, and if you ask me which single car I’d want if I could only have one, it’s not the loudest, the newest, or the one with the biggest number on the spec sheet. It’s the 911 Turbo S.
The case for boring numbers on paper
650 hp doesn’t win any comparison in this fleet — plenty of cars here clear that easily. 2.7 seconds to 100 km/h is genuinely quick, but it’s not the fastest number on our roster either. On a spec sheet next to an SF90 or a Revuelto, the Turbo S looks almost restrained. What the spec sheet doesn’t capture is what happens when the road turns bad.
What the AWD actually buys you
Most of the fleet’s true exotics are rear-drive, which is the right call for a dry mountain road and the wrong call the moment weather turns. The Turbo S runs all-wheel drive, and it’s not a defensive afterthought bolted onto a rear-drive platform — Porsche has been refining this specific drivetrain layout across 911 generations for decades, and it shows in how confidently the car puts power down on a wet, cold, or simply unfamiliar road. On the Grossglockner or the Grande Corniche in anything less than perfect conditions, this is the car in the fleet that lets you keep driving at pace rather than backing off and waiting for the weather to improve.
Four seats, real luggage
This is the detail that actually changes what trip you can take. Most exotics in this fleet are strict two-seaters with luggage space best measured in “an overnight bag, maybe.” The Turbo S has genuine rear seats — tight for adults on a long drive, entirely usable for kids or a short hop — and a front trunk plus rear parcel shelf that between them handle real luggage for two people on a proper road trip. It’s the difference between a car you rent for an afternoon and a car you could actually drive across five countries with everything you need for the week.
The everyday part isn’t marketing
Ferrari and McLaren have both, at various points, marketed a car as “the everyday exotic” — usually meaning it’s slightly less punishing than its stablemates, not that it’s actually pleasant to live with for a week straight. The Turbo S is the rare car in this category where that claim holds up under real use: a ride quality that doesn’t beat you up on ordinary roads, a cabin with genuinely good visibility rather than a letterbox windshield, and controls that don’t require recalibrating your inputs every time you get back in after driving something else. None of that comes at the expense of what happens when you actually put your foot down — it just means the car doesn’t punish you for the 95% of any drive that isn’t a hairpin at the limit.
Where it sits in the fleet
The 911 Turbo S is part of the current 911 lineup available on the Porsche Europe Road Trip, and it’s also bookable as a standalone rental out of Munich, Nice, Monaco, and Paris. Compared to the rest of the exotic fleet, it’s the car most likely to get requested specifically by guests who’ve already driven the Ferraris and Lamborghinis and want the one that does everything well rather than one thing spectacularly.
Curious how it stacks up against the rest of the current 911 range, or against a genuine exotic on the same road? That’s a future road test — for now, get in touch if you’d like to put one on your own itinerary.