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THE 911 IS Porsche’s most famous model and after more than a half-century it still outshines most of its rivals. Only now, this model is more powerful and more efficient making it the perfect, everyday dream car.
Outside:
Look at it! Just look at it. Take a moment to appreciate its iconic and enduring shape.
Those familiar headlights now feature Porsche’s signature four-point LED daytime driving lights. Those front air intakes are home to active vanes that open and close to improve efficiency.
The ever-so-attractive two-door coupé shape slopes elegantly to the rear, which has low down air vents behind the wheels allowing hot air to escape from the intercoolers and the engine deck lid has a vertical grille that directs air into the engine and intercoolers and there is a twin sports exhaust system with mid-mounted tailpipes. It’s just gorgeous to look at from all angles.
Inside:
The cabin is smart, tidy and user-friendly as well as being roomy and sturdy and luxurious, too. There are a lot of buttons on the centre console, which responds to finger gestures and taps, the steering wheel feels great and the heated, electronic, 14-way adjustable sports seats are comfy yet supportive.
The rear seats drop-down to provide some luggage space and there is a surprisingly good sized cargo well under the bonnet, although you probably won’t fit your weekly shopping in there.
Under the hood:
The engine sounds splendid and has a wonderful crescendo that builds right up to the top of the rev range and with that sports exhaust it pops and crackles on the overrun, adding a lovely texture to the sound and giddiness to the lucky driver.
Compared to the 1960s original, today’s 911 retains a “flat” six-cylinder engine, positioned behind the rear axle, only this 911 is now turbocharged, the results of which is a quiet and refined car which is great for everyday use, so no need to hide this baby away in a garage.
And the reason for adopting turbocharging in the first place? To improve efficiency and meet various European regulations and requirements and now the 911 has a claimed 12 per cent improvement in efficiency, with a combined economy figure of 7.7 litres/100km (36.7mpg) with emissions of just 174g/km.
The 3.0-litre flat-six turbocharged petrol engine is mated to a seven-speed PDK transmission and produces 420hp at 6,500rpm and the 500Nm of max torque peaks at just 1700rpm making the car drivable from the get-go, with lots of acceleration to hand.
Speaking of which, this car can sprint from 0 to 100km/h in 4.1 seconds or 3.9 seconds in Sports Plus mode and has a top speed of 306km/h (190mph). You’ll never be late for the school run again.
This dream car also holds the title of World Performance Car of the year. And you too can own this award winning dream car; just take a trip down to the Porsche Centre Dublin, take the car for a test drive and hand over €181,149 of your dream money.
View the full advert here: DoneDeal Porsche 911 Carrera S
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Best of luck to him , I will always have great respect for Hugo Chavez for trying to be a president for the common man and for sending the yank vultures and their puppets packing .
Absolutely 100% agree with you. Any one in any doubt should google John Pilgers documentary, the war on democracy. Chavez is a man of the people that big business want to see the back of.
Great documentary by Oliver Stone about Chavez “South Of The Border” worth a watch, tells how the US tried and failed to bring him down. Great interviews with him and other South American leaders about their refusal to be governed by US policy, it’s an eye opener.
Best wishes to him. He’s an inspiration.
don’t know much about Chavez,
but the fact that extreme right-wing yanks seem to hate him, makes me think he’s ok.
anyway – hope he defeats his cancer.
There is a very real possibility that his cancer was deliberately induced by the US military industrial complex in my opinion.
seriously? bit too much conspiracy perhaps?
Not really Simon. The CIA tired similar stuff with Fidel down the years.
They tried to give him cancer?
How do you give somebody cancer?
Exactly..
I can selectively quote parts of a random article from the internet too, first line under the heading… “Can you give someone cancer? If they’re healthy probably not”.
You want me to copy and paste entire articles here?
The point – and it’s embarrassingly obvious – is that while nobody knows whether his cancer was deliberately induced, it’s a possibility and a reasonable suspicion given the various ways the US tried to murder Fidel Castro down the years.
ha you quoted one part of an article to suit your own agenda! The US are capable of most things, so if they wanted rid of him I’m sure they could find a more effective way then giving him cancer, which your article goes onto say is a highly unreliable way of assassinting someone.
It’s highly unreliable yea but very discrete , I know it’s what I’d do it can’t be traced
A dose of radiation sufficient to appreciably increase cancer risk would undoubtably cause acute radiation sickness (about 3 to 5 sieverts).
Then, if the exposed person survives radiation sickness, there would be a ~10 year latency period before there’s an increased risk of Leukaemia, then if they don’t get Leukaemia, another 10 to 20 years would pass before there’s an increasing chance of solid cancers.
The maximum increase chance of cancer from radiation is ~40%, the risks are not higher as the exposed person would more likely die from radiation sickness at higher doses, they wouldn’t survive to get cancer years later.
Do you have a source for that, David?
Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 14, 1950–2003: An Overview of Cancer and Noncancer Diseases
The Japanese Life Span study is the gold standard, 130,000 atomic bombing survivors monitored since the mid-1950s, since Japanese doctors started to notice increased cases of leukaemia.
The Excess Relative Risk per Gray (roughly the same as a Sievert) is 0.42, since the baseline cancer rate is ~30%, this gives a cancer rate of 42.6% for 1 Gray dose.
For an additional increase of 40% (30+40%)= 70% cancer rate, the radiation dose would need to be massive, undoubtably accompanied with severe radiation sickness.
Where is that’s documentary pls love to see it
Here’s a great one filmed by two Irish reporters, they were in the Chavezs’ office when the coup happened. They stayed behind, when Chavez and his ministers fled; they said they wanted to film the revolution happening. They got both sides from the inside, it’s a real eye opener, an excellent documentry:
Venezuela has one of the most democratic systems in the world.
Here’s what former US President Jimmy Carter of the Nobel Prize-winning election monitoring Carter Center had to say about it:
“Of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.”
All Venezuelan expatriates get a vote. Those people are likely to vote for the opponents of Chavez, yet he still gives them the vote.
The people of Venezuela keep voting for Chavez, because he is of them.
It’s amazing that just because Chavez has stood up to the United States people make him out to some kind of hero. He presides over a massively corrupt country, which usually happens when one man resides in power way beyond what is healthy for any supposedly democratic country.
He keeps getting elected. Pesky democracy!
Because he has made it easier and easier for him to get elected. Himself and Putin have a lot in common.
At least he’s not owned and operated by Goldman Sachs, like BOTH of the selected candidates in the USA’s farcical overture to democracy.
That article doesn’t even back you up. Anybody that knows anything about cancer knows you can’t give somebody cancer.
Are you pretending to be dim or does it come naturally. Read. The. Comments. Again… S l o w l y !
I agree its unlikely but to rule if out is daft , best way to kill someone is to make it look like an accident.
Petr no need to get upset because you were wrong
Exactly, Kevin. Quite a simple point to grasp really.
A large dose of dioxins will induce cancer in most people. There are many carcinogenic compounds that can be administered covertly in food. It’s not science fiction
No, the amount of Dioxin required to greatly increase cancer risk would cause obvious symptoms – Chloracne. Just look at what happened to Viktor ‘s Yushchenko’s face after he was poisoned by Dioxin.
Caracas is one of the most dangerous places on earth. I suspect Damascus would be safer. Roaring inflation and shortages makes his rule not much of a success. It would be possible to have clinics in slums areas without wrecking the economy. He or his heir won’t be able to buy support for much longer.
I wish Mr Chavez all the best and I admire what he has done for working people in his country and the region. For too long the United States have treated South America as their own private plantation.
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