i feel like this is an attainable realistic goal i could set for myself in 10 years

9:22 Man's driving a 911 and gets excited by a Saab - That's why I love this channel!

I love my 17 manual base Carrera with a slick top! It has 60k miles, bought in 2020 with 18k miles 😊 It has been the best ownership experience with no issues and makes for an engaging DD

Finally a video about the base 911. Everyone always reviews the higher trims

My dad bought a base 992 Carrera recently, his dream car, and in my opinion (and his) it’s all that you need, no need for a 4S or a Turbo

Now THIS is where it's at. The others are beautiful machines, but they belong on the track. This trim is for the streets. With how slow everyone in my area drives, I could get away with having sub 100bhp & easily flow with traffic. Having a higher trim 911 would be unusable 90% of the time. The base trim is pure, honest, & very usable.

My friend and I rented this on a whim for a day. We drove it around Santa Monica Mountains and PCH. I've never been a 'car guy' but now I'm obsessed with this car.

I’ve owned 3 911’s and currently own a 992 and I always buy the base model, it’s more than enough.

The angle/placement on this pov is so perfect

I always enjoy the car spotting you do during your drives! Excellent Saab spot 🙌

Beautiful!! All the car anyone would ever need, perfect colour.

My favourite 911

Can totally take a 911 to Costco. I do it in my 997 all the time. It won't fit TVs or carpets, but packs of paper towels and cases of cerveza no problem.

Thanks, bro. You really get it, even that nice later-model SAAB didn’t get past you. Thank you very much! Liked, subscribed and shared. My absolute favorite KZfaq channel by far.

Tedward - the quality of the video and audio in your POV drives are really terrific. And, I really enjoy your reviews. Give a really great, realistic view of what this car is like to experience. Thanks very much for your time and effort!

I just got my first ever 911 base carrera. I’m 45 and grew up poor, not destitute, but definitely this was not even in my dreams. I’ve wanted one since I saw it in Bad Boys I. I’m not a huge car guy but I do like to drive. I’ve owners 335is for the last 15 years. Enjoy all. It it makes me smile while I drive it it’s worth it to me.

my 991.2 base is such a great car. It's fully optioned, and still quicker than 90% of cars on the road lol.

Was waiting on this, very nicely done!

Tedward...your videos are THE BEST! Informative, fun and a cool dude. Keep it up

This is the DREAM daily. An awesome machine that future Porsche nutters will ignore because no S badge. Just how I like it.

Base 911 is better than no 911

I just rented a 992 Carrera this weekend and it was so nice. I would love to experience a turbo or GT3 but this already felt so powerful and responsive.

Great video. I've heard it referenced many times about the rear grill being a "9-11" visual reference but I'm not so sure because it's actually "9-2-9" if that's the case. I think it is actually a reference to the slats being the current variant designation of "9-9-2" (two sets of 9 identical slats flanking one set of 2 brake lights). Or maybe....both which is even more clever. 😉

Great video! If I was going to buy one, I’d buy this one. Living in the UK, with speed cameras everywhere, enjoying a car and revving it to redline isn’t the same in a torque monster like the 911 turbo. This takes more driver involvement to go through the rev range and plus it is still easily fast enough. Id also option the burmester and maybe the heritage seats

I bought my base 992 almost exactly one year ago, I use it as a daily driver. So far it's been awesome except there is one small downside I found out about at an inconvenient time - the key fob eats batteries nonstop, as in it never stops drawing power on the battery. And you aren't going anywhere without a powered key fob. Now I keep a couple spare batteries in the car just in case, and I keep the spare fob disassembled in a plastic bag in the house so it cannot use up it's battery. The 992 has met all my expectations. Younger me may have sprung for the Turbo, but today the base is fast enough. For a while I considered waiting for the T to come out, but I found my PDK on the Jacksonville Porsche lot with the color & options I wanted and decided it was time. All my other cars over the past 13 years are manuals and I have a beater 912 for those days I need to row on my own. In short I have no complaints about the PDK, if I did I would trade in for a T and that hasn't happened yet. Regarding the S, I think the tuning potential is higher with the S because it comes stock with larger turbos. However you can pick up an ECU which not only gives the base model effectively the same power as the S, but also a bunch of options you'll find aren't in the standard Porsche menu like fully-time Sport mode (which also disables engine start/stop). So unless you're really looking to add a lot of customized power beyond what's available with an ECU don't discount the base model just for a few tenths of a second because an ECU can make up for it for not a lot of money.

i actually prefer the non sport exhausts on the 992. also good to see a proper review of the base 911, makes you appreciate the car and the rest of the higher variants' capabilites more

I test drove a 2022 911 base carrera back in 2021 and it was the first sports car I ever drove. at the time I owned a model 3 and after a 15 minute drive-- I immediately became a Porsche fanatic and spent every day for the next 2 years figuring out how to get myself into a Porsche. I got a 981 cayman back in September 2022 and WOW! Flat 6s are so so so good. I hope to get a 911 too someday but im a huge fan of mid engine over rear engine

It may take me 25 years, but I will own one.

Great review! Well done!

This is just perfect. It's looks so classic 911. Perfect colour. This is really all you need from a sports car you can drive every day.

Looking to just get bare bones base 911 as my first 911. Thanks for this.

You never saw the first bad boys movie, the opening scene with the Porsche and the cup-holders :D? Anyhow, nice review like always. Love your style!

Great review by Tedward as usual.

The 987 Boxster/Cayman was like this. You could ring out the engine, bury the throttle and actually allow the car to drive at 100% for maybe 10 seconds before you had to back off. The 996 turbo has that "scary speed" Ted talks about but you only get like 4 seconds before you're going straight-to-jail speed. It just doesn't stop accelerating. Two different beasts altogether, but to each their own.

This is great! Any plans to drive a base 718 for the channel? Curious to see if that car gives you a similar feeling despite the 4 cylinder

What porsche does really well is keeping the familiarity of the car as much as possible. They had to go turbo but they made the sound and rev profile match. They had to go keyless but they kept the twisting thing. I have a base 2005 since a decade and watching your video bring to me the emotion of those drive and the smell of the interior. Is that damn winter over yet?

the rear engine cover slats are also 9 on the left 9 on the right and 2 break lights. 992. pretty cool

i love the simplicity of it, not in my top/dream 3 992 but its probably the most attainable 992

Can't tell you how many times on Rennlist people say "these cars are meant to be driven" and then the very next sentence is "I drive my 911 about 4,000 miles a year".

Runs like a champ

Good video, TW. I enjoyed it immensely.

This video is amusing because I own an old Miata that is basically used for canyon carving on weekends, it’s not pristine but set up for handling and that’s the way we should all see these fun cars as. A driver and not a garage queen. Well done.

To me, this a perfect road for a 911! Nice video 🙂

You are great gonna buy this in 6 months, cant wait

The auto generated EN captions once in a while listening to the car sound: "thank you" 15:13

Such a classic looking interior!

Here’s the best verdict you’ll get on the base vs S vs GTS. I own a GTS in California however I have family in Toronto who I visit every summer and can’t live without my 911 all summer so I use porsche drive subscription and I’ve subscribed and driven both the S and base. In my personal opinion, no difference in daily driving whatsoever. GTS feels like more car if you want that rough riding track feel car. But between the S and base there’s honestly no noticeable difference in daily driving whatsoever. I genuinely couldn’t notice a thing.

I own an "S" and I don't think anyone would ever notice the horsepower difference in real world everyday driving.

I love that he’s going 60 on a 30 like it’s nothing absolutely amazing car 😎

I like your videos, especially as I live a town or two over from you, so fun to see you ripping through my pissin' grounds 😂. It would be cool if you could put up a graphic maybe in the intro that shows the basic stats of the car (base price, as tested, HP, torque, 0-60, 1/4 mi).

Ah, Blue Hills! So nice to see the familiar roads!

awesome video! I'm going to work very hard for this car

Great video Tedward 🙌 Base Carrera’s are as rare as chicken teeth in the UK (I guess most ppl go for the S?) I waited for 2 years to get mine from the Porsche dealer 😅

The 992 Carrera is an amazing vehicle. Completely agree PDK (esp. with Sport Chrono) is superior to Porsche's 7 speed manual. Like yourself, am a 'Save the Manuals' advocate, so preferring the PDK is high praise.

Well done LOVE the drivers head POV.

I love how you get excited about a Saab just as much as you do with a Porsche! lol. A new fan. Sub.

I am remembering 80's 911s from when I was in High School. This 992 is a callback in so many good ways. The damn trunk is useable! *faint* Sure, this 992 is the base car. But it could shred most other cars in corners or on a track.

My 1988 911 was an everyday driver. I put 144,000 on it, and it was still solid right up until I sold it in 2012. I miss that car EVERY day. And yes, it did take a bit of "education" and the willingness to explore the boundaries to fully enjoy it. Sadly, $110K has moved the goalposts for readmission to the club out of my realm. (FYI, it you want to see some really "crummy" roads come to Sonoma County in N.CA)

Nice review. My only wish was that you could find a road where you could stay in the throttle when you hit third gear. Winding out the first three gears is a blast in that car.

lol @ "so choice" "It is his love, it is his passion--" "It is his fault he didn't lock the garage."

I had a 2022 base 911 for a year, my first, loved it, and would have kept it for good but was lucky to get one of the last 2023 Spyders as they stopped production. The base 911 is all you need if you want a 911. Get the 911 T which comes with a manual and all the best options including the missing sport torque differential from the base, and the best options standard.

This just shows to what extent 911s - all of them - are truly great sports cars and all rounders. No other car maker can boast this in the same way and with the same flavor.

You make excellent points

9:25 👍 on the Saab shout out!

My dream car for everyday driving....beauty.

11:17 I like Ted's makeshift speedway 🙌

Fantastic video as always, but still not enough to convince me over the 991.2

992s are beautiful, love the videos you've been putting out sir !

Sounds great from the inside!

I prefer the look of the stock exhaust and its quad pipes over the sports exhaust with the two oval pipes

I have a 992 911 with sport exhaust. Wow the sound difference is insane

Porsche 100% make the best sounding cars... man i cannot wait till the day i get one.

9:22 YOU NEED TO REVIEW A 900 SPG!!!!!!!!

Man, those shifts are lightning fast, but I’d still go with the 7 speed stick!

We love a car that is meant to be driven

Looks like a nice daily for the enthusiast

The fact that this doesn’t have a limited slip differential is a deal breaker tho. It‘s an expensive performance car, it should have one.

He mentions rear wheel steering, which is not available on the base. No idea why not, when you can get PCCBs and things like a carbon roof. I have the RWS on my 991.2 C4S and love it.

dream car!

Back in MAS. Your California videos were awesome.

I had a base 997.2 w/ PDK and loved it. This is probably wayyyyyyy faster still.

I drive these Blue Hills back roads all the time in my Panamera and I swear I'm behind that Malibu every time.

Hi Ted! Can you do a drive review with a Porsche GT3 Touring? A great stick shift 911.

I had this car for a year and half… and after only 9k miles it had a bunch of reliability issues. 3 electrical failures in 3 weeks… It was a nice car, but a bit boring 👀 the fuel range with the extended range fuel tank was awesome though, 29 mpg easily, and 650 miles on a tank

i love your videos😊

Hi I’ve got a 911 992 and everyone complains about the dials Cant be seen because of the steering wheel covering the out side dials .The settings can be change so you can see them through the steering wheel quite easily.

The 911 is always most impressive in base form. Just the C2 or C2S. With the higher end trims, you kinda expect them to be amazing.

these are gonna be fun to mod in 20 years

This and the lexus lc 500 are the only cars that I have set my eyes on too.

Dream car!

I would be very happy with this "base" 911 😆

I have the prior cup holders and by no means is the one I have preferred. It is far flimsier and when your drink spills over - and it will. It spills into your a/c unit shorting it out. $900.00

911 looks way better with the quad exhausts, change my mind.

The 992 base engine sounds great! Have a 991.1 S and this rivals it on pure sound.

great car great vid

Old cup holder design was prone to failure and believe me when you stick iced drinks in them (like coffee or sodas) they drip condensation EVERYWHERE, including passenger legs and center dash.

Probably the best buy, just get a base model with 0 options, you’ll pretty much be able to drive it for a few years with very little depreciation

This is a car I would like to take on a drive 👏

What year is this car. I'm looking to get one soon❤😊

Nothing better on the road