New Hybrid Porsche 911 Turbo Revealed

Porsche’s facelifted 992.2 Turbo S has landed and, in the least shocking plot twist you’ve ever heard, it’s even faster. Only this time there’s a new twist to the tale: T‑Hybrid. Yes, the most complete everyday supercar now carries a very small battery, two electrically assisted turbos and a very large point to prove.

You’ll notice I said Turbo S, not Turbo, and that’s because there is no ‘regular’ Turbo, just the S. Whether that will remain the case, we don’t know, but the vast majority of buyers went whole hog and skipped the regular Turbo. Just look on Auto Trader and around 85% of 992 Turbos for sale are the S model, so perhaps there wasn’t much point in offering the base model anymore.

As ever, the Turbo S is a numbers game, so here they are. The new Turbo S makes 711hp and 800Nm. That’s a 61hp bump over the outgoing 992.1 Turbo S, and whilst peak torque is surprisingly unchained, it makes that peak all the way from 2,250 to 6,000rpm, so the chances of catching yourself in the wrong gear are slim to none. Porsche claims 0-62mph in 2.5 seconds, 0-124mph in 8.4 seconds, and a 200mph top speed.

Whilst we’re on numbers, we can’t talk about a new 911 without lapping the Nürburgring, and the new Turbo S set a time of 7:03.92. That’s around 14 seconds quicker than the previous Turbo S, and almost more impressively, comes within six seconds of the 918 Spyder, with 170hp less, more weight, and in a car that wouldn’t be out of sorts on the school run.

So they’re the numbers, now the inevitable tech. T‑Hybrid is Porsche’s take on a performance hybrid: think response and repeatable performance first, CO₂ brownie points second. The heart remains a new 3.6‑litre twin‑turbo flat‑six, but each turbocharger now houses an electric motor, an eTurbo duo that can pre‑spin the compressors for instant boost and also recuperate energy from the exhaust stream. Between the turbos and an electric motor integrated into the 8‑speed PDK, a compact 1.9‑kWh battery supplies torque fill, harvests energy and keeps the party going where a traditional turbocharged engine might be caught napping.

The upshot? Virtually no lag, a fatter powerband and the sort of relentless shove that used to be the preserve of cars in a different stratosphere of price. The downside? The 992.2 Turbo S is 85kg heavier than its predecessor, although if anyone can hide weight, it’s Porsche’s engineers, and it is at least preferable to a full plug-in hybrid system like that of the 918 Spyder, which Porsche says would have added more like 200-300kg.

So what chassis wizardry is at work to control 711hp and 1,700kg? The 992.2 Turbo S leans on an uprated toolkit, which of course includes many acronyms for you to remember: ehPDCC (electro‑hydraulic Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control) now taps the high‑voltage system for quicker, more precise anti‑roll responses. Rear‑axle steering, PTV+ (Porsche Torque Vectoring) and the PTM (Porsche Traction Management) all‑wheel drive cocktail remain ruthless allies. Rubber grows too: the rear tyres swell to 325/30 ZR21, and the PCCB setup adopts 420mm front and 400mm rear discs with motorsport‑derived pads—the largest ever fitted to a 911.

Aero gets smarter as well. Active, vertically arranged front cooling flaps team up with an active front diffuser, adaptive front spoiler and that signature deployable rear wing. Porsche quotes up to a 10% drag reduction in its slipperiest setting; in “wet” mode, the flaps even close to shelter the front discs from spray.

The 992.2 Turbo S doesn’t reinvent the 911 so much as it perfects the Turbo brief for the modern era: be outrageously rapid on any road, in any weather, with use‑every‑day manners. The 711hp headline is great pub ammo, but it’s the T‑Hybrid hardware, those twin eTurbos, the torque‑filling motor that could send the hypercar-humbling daily driver to new heights. And since character has never been the 911 Turbo’s party piece, there’s little fear that all this tech will spoil the show.

Whilst most of the trickery like a new titanium sports exhaust, rear-steer, PTV, PDCC and PCCB come standard, this is Porsche and there will of course be options aplenty, including front lift, the Sport Design Package, carbon roof and even carbon wiper blades to save 600g of the 85kg gain!

Unsurprisingly, the do-it-all supercar doesn’t come cheap. The Coupe starts at £199,100, and you can add an extra £10k for the Cabriolet. That said, if you don’t want to wait for a new one and can put up with 0-62mph taking a lengthy 2.7 seconds, this 992.1 Turbo S might tickle your fancy!

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