P For Performance Ever driven a Porsche? If you haven't, and even if you have, let BT's Kushan Mitra describe the experience for you.
Business Today, December, 2006 by Kushan Mitra
The Porsche name is one that every person who claims to like cars (and this writer counts himself as one) is familiar with. It is one that evokes history and, thanks to that most iconic of sportscars, the 911, is a synonym for speed. So, when the kind gentlemen of Porcshe Middle East & Africa called and asked if I would like to have a go at driving their vehicles about a bit on an airstrip, the word 'No' wasn't exactly the first word that came to mind. Actually, no words came to mind, because one was already drooling.
The first thing you realise when you are strapped into the driver's seat of a Porsche 911 is that it really isn't quite the same as driving one on Sony Computer Entertainment's fantastic Gran Turismo video game. No, believe me, it is nowhere close. No matter how...
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