What do we have here?A saloon. Which might not mean much if you’re a young pup. See, before crossovers took over the world, saloons were a heartland car. They even gave way to the phrase ‘Mondeo Man’; a generation of dual carriageway chuggers that sat content in the middle-lane in their top-spec fleet cars. Then the whole crossover thing happened, and they died down.Why should I care about this one?
Hang about, didn’t this used to be called the R8 RWS?
Jeepers, that’s not got any prettier has it?Nope, and you know what? I think even BMW secretly knows the 2 Series Gran Coupe is a gargoyle. Because the one it sent to TopGear.com for its first UK test was painted jet black, rode on black wheels, and had every single piece of trim – and every one of its yawning grilles – blacked out. Maximum stealth.
The 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, in the UK. But hasn’t it just started raining?Well it is June. Fortunately, we got into the new car at the tail end of the hot weather, grateful for the fact that this first lockdown-easing drive involves a convertible roof. Porsche’s rules meant picking the car up from the company’s HQ just outside Reading, where it had just received the sort of deep clean that banishes all bug-like life-forms, including sub-atomic ones.
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