2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet Review: My, how far we’ve come

As summer rolls in and heats up, Auto123 reviews the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet.

Whenever a new generation of the venerable Porsche 911 is released, the same questions and observations come up, and not without reason: “Looks the same. How’s it different?” and “The new 911; same as the old 911” and “Jeremy Clarkson was right; it’s still just a Beetle”. Thing is, though, I’ve just driven the latest 911 and it has so much more to offer than meets the eye.

This is important because if I’m being honest, the new 911 doesn’t look all that different than the old. To be sure, it is 45 mm wider up front and gets hood creases hitherto seen only on the first-gen 911. The panels have all been shaped differently to add a little more muscle overall, and surprisingly, the way the rear light bar now mimics what you see on the Panamera and Cayenne actually works well here. And how can you not like the big “Porsche” scripting across the rear fascia? That has to be one of my favourite details, even though it’s not exactly new.

My tester was the Carrera S designation, meaning rear-wheel drive as opposed to all-wheel drive. It used to that meant a narrower body overall but that’s not so anymore; you still get those great big hips even if you’re running a RWD model.

A feature my car didn’t have but is also new for 2020 is a set of rims styled to look like a modern take on the classic Fuchs wheels of the 1960s and 1970s. Blame the snow tires on my tester for that one.

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