2.0 s to 60 in Car and Driver's test, 2.4 s on Porsche's spec sheet. 701 horsepower from a 911 with electric turbochargers.
Porsche claims the 2026 911 Turbo S coupe reaches 60 mph in 2.4 seconds claimed with the Sport Chrono Package and tops out at 200 mph claimed (Porsche USA). Testers beat the 0-60 claim: Car and Driver recorded 2.0 s recorded with a foot of rollout subtracted and ran the quarter mile in 9.7 s at 142 mph recorded (Car and Driver).
Those are the two numbers in our race, and both belong to this car: the 992.2 Turbo S with Porsche's T-Hybrid system, 701 hp claimed, revealed in September 2025. The previous 640-hp 992.1 claimed 2.6 s claimed and ran 10.1 s recorded for Car and Driver (Car and Driver). MotorTrend got 2.2 s and 9.9 s recorded (MotorTrend), and Edmunds 2.4 s and 10.1 s recorded (Edmunds). Its Nürburgring lap is 7:03.92 verified (Nürburgring).
The current one. Porsche revealed the 992.2 Turbo S at IAA Mobility in Munich on September 7, 2025, as "the most powerful production 911 to date." Frank Moser, who runs the 911 line, said "the 911 Turbo S is the most complete and versatile form of driving a Porsche 911" (Porsche).
It replaced the 992.1 Turbo S of 2020, a 640-hp, 3.7-liter car that was already one of the quickest things Car and Driver had tested. The new car's engine is smaller, at 3.6 liters, and heavier by 85 kg claimed with its hybrid parts, yet quicker everywhere except flat out.
Every figure carries its label. claimed means Porsche said it. recorded is timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system. verified means an official body. reported is press we couldn't trace to a primary source. converted is a maker's 0-100 km/h claim converted to 0-60 mph. derived is our math. Here's how we label numbers.
Each bar fills at the real speed of that car's 0-60 time. Rows with a car's name use our race's lineup, where the Turbo S runs Porsche's 2.4 s. The other two Porsche rows are Car and Driver's test and the old car's claim. Tesla's Plaid figure subtracts a foot of rollout; Porsche doesn't say.
Porsche's 2.4 s is a U.S. figure in miles per hour; in Europe it quotes 2.5 s to 100 km/h claimed, and 60 mph is 96.6 km/h, which accounts for the tenth (Porsche). Porsche doesn't say whether it subtracts rollout, the first foot a car travels before a drag strip's timing beam starts the clock.
Car and Driver does subtract it, as it has since 2019, and publishes the rollout time separately (Car and Driver). On this car rollout is worth only about a tenth: DragTimes timed 2.02 s with it and said about 2.1 s without on the same run recorded (DragTimes). So even from a true standstill, the good runs beat Porsche's number. Edmunds and MotorWeek matched it exactly. Read our methodology guide for how the race treats rollout.
Studio views are our own generated illustrations, not Porsche photography or design data. The second slide is a real photo.
Tap a marker. Figures are Porsche claims unless noted. Studio views are our own generated illustrations.
Vertical active flaps in each front intake, an active front diffuser and an adjustable spoiler lip work as one system: open for cooling, closed for low drag.
Carbon-ceramic discs are standard: 420 mm front and 410 mm rear, up from 390 mm. Porsche calls it the largest PCCB system it has fitted to a two-door car. Testers stopped from 60 mph in 85 to 95 feet (MotorWeek, MotorTrend).
The coupe ships as a two-seater; rear seats are a no-cost option. Adaptive 18-way sports seats with "turbo S" headrests are standard, and the GT3's folding bucket seat is optional.
Behind this intake sits a 3.6-liter flat-six with two eTurbos. A motor in each turbo spins it up before exhaust pressure builds and turns surplus exhaust energy into electricity, so there's no wastegate.
The extending, tilting rear wing carries over from the old car, now with Turbo S inserts in its slats. With everything retracted the coupe's drag is 10% lower than before.
325/30 ZR21 rear tires, 10 mm wider than before, with 255/35 ZR20 fronts. Car and Driver's 2.0 s car ran Pirelli P Zero R tires.
Porsche first used T-Hybrid in the 911 Carrera GTS in 2024 with one electric turbo. The Turbo S gets two, plus the GTS's motor in the eight-speed PDK and its 1.9 kWh battery. MotorTrend's spec table splits the output as below reported; Porsche quotes only the combined figure claimed. The payoff is response: Porsche USA's chief, Timo Resch, says "power delivery is instant, urgent, and feels almost endless" (Porsche USA).
Porsche doesn't publish a quarter-mile time, so our race uses Car and Driver's 9.7 s at 142 mph, the quickest of five tests. MotorTrend called its 9.9 s the first sub-10-second pass by a gas-powered Porsche it has tested. Car and Driver's 918 Spyder also ran 9.7 s, 3 mph faster through the traps. The old 992.1 managed 10.1 s.
Porsche brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister set the lap in a lightly camouflaged car during final development in autumn 2024, on production Pirelli P Zero R tires, and the time was "officially confirmed under notarial supervision" (Nürburgring; tires per Motor1). Porsche says it's about 14 seconds quicker than the previous Turbo S, though it didn't publish that car's time.
"You don't feel the weight gain. On the contrary – the car is much more agile, has more grip and is significantly faster than its predecessor in all relevant sections of the track," Bergmeister said in Porsche's release. We label the time verified because the Nürburgring published it as official, but it came from Porsche's own test session, not an open timed event.
The old car for scale, then today's coupe and Cabriolet. Prices include Porsche's U.S. delivery charge.
The last Turbo S without electric help, and already a 2.2-second car in testing.
Hot Cars reports the coupe started at $238,700 in its last year reported (Hot Cars). Its 2024 cars are in a center-lock wheel recall.
The car in our race, and the body style behind every quarter-mile test above except the Cabriolet run.
Top track speed 200 mph claimed. EPA 15/22/18 mpg city, highway, combined, per MotorWeek.
The same 701 hp under a fabric roof, with rear seats as standard.
Car and Driver's test car weighed 4,005 lb and cost $304,330 (Car and Driver).
Six years from the last pure-gas Turbo S to a new Porsche above it. Scroll sideways.
640 hp from a 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six, 2.6 s to 60 claimed.
Car and Driver times the old car at 2.2 s and 10.1 s recorded.
The 911 Carrera GTS gets the system with a single electric turbo.
Bergmeister laps the Nordschleife in a camouflaged prototype.
701 hp, two eTurbos, shown at IAA Mobility with a digital premiere hosted by Patrick Dempsey.
2.2 s and 9.9 s, ahead of its own 918 Spyder numbers.
Car and Driver records 2.0 s and 9.7 s at 142 mph.
2.02 s with rollout, 9.8 s at 139.5 mph.
A one-off Sonderwunsch Turbo S marks 75 years of Porsche in Australia.
17.4 s in Car and Driver's 0-150-0 test, two seconds better than the old car.
2.4 s and 10.1 s, and "the absolute best kind of excess."
The T-Hybrid flat-six wins a 2026 Wards 10 Best Engines award.
Porsche reveals the Mission S, a mid-engined supercar concept for a line above the 911 reported.
Porsche adds 548 cars, 2024 Turbo S models among them, to a do-not-drive center-lock wheel recall.
Reviews agree on the speed and argue about what it means. These are opinions, quoted with links.
"a 911 that dares the world's best hypercars to justify their status in its hybrid-boosted wake."Alex Leanse, MotorTrend
MotorTrend asked outright whether a 911 that matches the 918 Spyder's numbers is now a hybrid hypercar.
"considering the 911 Turbo S's absurd performance, its $272,650 starting price feels like a bargain."Caleb Miller, Car and Driver
He set it against a 918 Spyder that cost about $900,000 more new, and named the cheaper Corvette ZR1X as the only counterargument.
"It's the absolute best kind of excess."Edmunds, 2026
Edmunds also wrote that "the noise inside the Turbo S is more disorienting than the speed," measuring nearly 96 dB at full throttle.
"At the top end, the Turbo S can't live with it."Top Gear, on the Lamborghini Temerario
Car and Driver found the same against the ZR1X, which reached 150 mph 2.6 seconds sooner. In its 0-200-0 test the Turbo S hit a governor at 199.3 mph recorded and was scored a DNF (Car and Driver). Its top speed is also lower than the old car's.
The consensus: nobody disputes that the 992.2 is the quickest 911 Turbo yet off the line, or that it beats Porsche's own 2.4 s claim. The debate is about everything past 100 mph, where 1,000-hp rivals pull away, about 85 kg of hybrid hardware, and about a price that rose by tens of thousands of dollars in one update.
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Car and Driver's 2015 918 Spyder needed 2.1 s; this 911 did it in 2.0 s. The 918 cost about $900,000 more new.
Displacement fell from 3,745 cc to 3,591 cc, and output still rose by 61 PS claimed.
Top speed is 322 km/h (200 mph), down from 330 km/h for the old car reported.
Instead of dumping spare exhaust pressure, the turbos' motors turn it into electricity for the battery. A Wards judge, writing about the same system in the GTS, called it "quite clever."
The hybrid parts add 85 kg, yet the Nordschleife lap dropped by about 14 seconds.
Its 9.9 s run was the first sub-10-second quarter by a gas-powered Porsche the magazine has tested.
Turbonite, the Turbo-only grey-gold, made Pantone's color trend forecast for New York and London fashion weeks.
The standard titanium sports exhaust saves 6.8 kg, and the engine uses asymmetric timing to sound throatier.
In Car and Driver's 0-150-0 test it took 17.4 s, nearly two seconds better than the 2023 car but only midpack.
In our quarter-mile model the 911 Turbo S finishes 16th of 21, using Car and Driver's 9.7 s run. The car just quicker and the car just slower:
Porsche claims 2.4 seconds for the 2026 911 Turbo S coupe with the Sport Chrono Package. Car and Driver recorded 2.0 seconds with its standard one-foot rollout subtracted, tying the Ferrari SF90 Stradale as the quickest gas-powered car it has tested. MotorTrend recorded 2.2 seconds, and Edmunds and MotorWeek each recorded 2.4 seconds.
Porsche doesn't publish one. Car and Driver ran 9.7 seconds at 142 mph, DragTimes 9.8 seconds at 139.5 mph, MotorTrend 9.9 seconds at 138.9 mph, Edmunds 10.1 seconds at 135.8 mph and MotorWeek 10.2 seconds at 139 mph. The previous 640-hp Turbo S ran 10.1 seconds at 137 mph for Car and Driver.
Yes, but not a plug-in. The 992.2 Turbo S uses Porsche's T-Hybrid system: a 3.6-liter flat-six with two electric turbochargers, an electric motor inside the eight-speed PDK and a 1.9 kWh, 400-volt battery that charges while you drive. Combined output is 701 hp and 590 lb-ft.
7:03.92 on the Nordschleife, driven by Porsche brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister in a lightly camouflaged car during final development in autumn 2024 and confirmed under notarial supervision. Porsche says that is about 14 seconds quicker than the previous Turbo S.
Porsche lists the coupe from $270,300 before its $2,350 delivery charge, or $272,650 delivered. The Cabriolet is $286,650 delivered. Test cars from Car and Driver, MotorTrend and Edmunds stickered between $286,180 and $295,370.
The 992.1, sold as a 2021 to 2025 model, used a 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six with 640 hp. The 992.2, revealed in September 2025, has a 3.6-liter T-Hybrid engine with 701 hp and weighs 85 kg more. Porsche says it is 0.2 seconds quicker to 100 km/h and about 14 seconds quicker around the Nordschleife, but its top speed falls to 200 mph. Our race uses the 992.2's figures.
Labels. Claimed: Porsche or another maker said it. Recorded: timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system. Converted: a maker's 0-100 km/h (62.1 mph) claim converted to 0-60 mph. Verified: an official body, here the Nürburgring. Reported: press reporting we couldn't trace to a primary source. Derived: our math. Estimate: modeled for our race because no published figure exists. Both are explained in the methodology guide. Race figures come from the lineup in our quarter-mile simulator, which uses Porsche's 2.4 s claim and Car and Driver's 9.7 s at 142 mph, both for the 992.2 car; see every car in the car guide. Sources disagree in three places: base price ($272,650 delivered in most tests, $274,250 in Car and Driver's August 0-150-0 story), test weight (3,804 to 3,858 lb), and 0-60 (2.0 to 2.4 s, with different rollout conventions and surfaces).
Images. Rear photo: Alexander-93, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; our edit is shared under the same license. The hero and the studio views are our own generated illustrations, checked against licensed photos of the 992.2; none are Porsche photos.
