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Lunching at a favorite spot on a recent midwinter day, I glance outside at the overcast sky, a shimmering pale gray not unlike the GT Silver Metallic coat of the Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS<\/a> parked nearby. The food is smashing, but I\u2019ve ordered light, finish up and pay the tab. The Porsche, and the road, are calling.<\/p>\n

My heartbeat quickens at the sight of it, this little spaceship from Stuttgart, Germany, with its iconic, frog-like face and tapered teardrop tail, its rakish rear spoiler extended in eager anticipation. The cockpit is snug and so is the 18-way Adaptive Sport seat, all clad in satin-smooth and deliciously aromatic Truffle Brown club leather. Strapping in, I take a moment to collect myself before depressing the clutch and reaching for the ignition starter switch, positioned not to the right of the steering wheel, but to the left, a design that allowed race drivers to start their engines while they were still climbing into their cars from the pit lane at Le Mans.<\/p>\n

The rear-mounted flat-six engine jumps to life, the cabin hums with its energy, and with the flip of a switch in the console, the roof pivots swiftly upward and back, stowing itself neatly beneath the rear glass. For maximum performance, I twist the knurled driving mode selector into SPORT + and, with a flick of the short-throw shifter, put the transmission into first. And whatever the evangelists might say about the life-enhancing qualities of \u201cconnected cars\u201d in constant communion with a vast, insensate cloud, none of it will ever come remotely close to the thrill of gripping a Truffle Brown leather-wrapped knob connected to a 7-speed manual gearbox connected to a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged power plant capable of twisting out 420 pound-feet of torque from a mere 2,300 rpm.<\/p>\n

After loafing around town just long enough to bring all systems up to proper operating temperature, I cut a route to the freeway. Traffic is light, my right foot is heavy, and as I wind the Porsche to its 7,500 rpm redline, the harmonic howl of the engine is utterly, ferociously erotic. Yet, in spite of its mind-bendingly massive thrust, the 911 Targa 4 GTS remains preternaturally composed as its super-sophisticated all-wheel drive metes out power to a quartet of massive Michelin winter sport tires as tenacious on the byways of Marin as they are in the snowy wilds of the Sierra Nevada.<\/p>\n

Would I like to experience the 190 mph maximum speed? Nat\u00fcrlich<\/em>. Perhaps on the autobahn on my next jaunt to Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. But even stateside, I can make use of the preposterously tall seventh gear, maintaining an athletic pace while the engine lounges along at a shade over 1,000 rpm, barely sipping high-octane fuel as it goes. Green as my aspirations might be, though, the low-rev reverie doesn\u2019t last long. That stout little gearshift is a standing invitation, and once again I\u2019m snick-snicking through the lower reaches of the H, where the bellow from the pipes sings a song with the wind, and the needle on the tach points the way to a place somewhere between ecstasy and nirvana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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