Review and photos by
Peter Bleakney, CanadianDriver.com

I have been fortunate enough to pilot the 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S at Mosport International Raceway and thrash it over the temporary course set up for AJAC’s TestFest at the Niagara Regional Airport. I know how astonishingly fast this car is, and how its all-wheel-drive and clever electronic aids, in conjunction with an intangible user friendliness can provide mere mortals a portal to heroic levels of speed and car control.

2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S

I also suspect I barely tapped into the Turbo S’s potential. So when given the opportunity to drive the very same 530-hp rocket in the dead of Ontario winter (shod with expensive 235/35ZR-19 front and 305/30ZR-19 rear Pirelli snow tires, thank you), I jumped at it. Not without some trepidation, mind. Like inviting Halle Berry over to rewire your home, this exercise could have gone in all kinds of directions. Appropriately, the 911 was finished in Ice Blue Metallic.

Turns out this king-of-the-hill Turbo is reassuringly secure, not to mention quite a hoot in the white stuff. (more…)