2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid Is So Good It Makes The Haters Look Real Dumb

The evening our band of merry automotive journalists arrived in Málaga, Spain, model line director Frank Moser started off the presentation for the 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS by showing us a bunch of hate comments Porsche received on social media when the facelifted 992-generation model was unveiled a few months ago. You see, the new Carrera GTS is the first roadgoing hybrid 911, and Porsche Guys are big mad about it.

“When it will be electrified, the 911 is done, I’m afraid,” “The beginning of the end. Good night Porsche,” and “Who needs a hybrid 911?” were all quotes floating around a rendering of the T-Hybrid’s badge. The comments and posts I’ve personally seen online are even dumber, mis-informed or just outright ridiculous. People really think that electrifying the 911 will lead to the death of not only car enthusiasm, but society as well.

After spending the following day driving the Porsche 911 T-Hybrid up some beautiful Spanish mountains and around the famed Circuito Ascari (you know it from all those “Top Gear” episodes), I’m here to tell you that electrifying the 911 has only made it better. The GTS’ powertrain is a marvelous bit of engineering, as good and fun as it is interesting from a technical standpoint.

Full disclosure: Porsche flew me to Spain to drive the 992.2 lineup on the road and on track. We stayed at a lovely resort on a golf course, ate some wonderful food and got to have Ascari all to ourselves.

I start off the morning in a base model 911 Carrera cabriolet, the only other trim level to receive the 992.2 facelift so far, and it feels pretty much the same as the pre-facelift model. That is to say, it’s excellent. For 2025, Porsche fitted the base car with the turbos from the old Carrera GTS and the intercooler from the 911 Turbo for a boost of 9 horsepower, which resulted in the slightest of acceleration and top speed improvements.

Despite Porsche Guys saying how big and unwieldy the 992 is, the car feels at home in the narrow, hairpin-filled, frequently cobblestoney streets that snake through the mountain towns looking over the Alboran Sea, even though it lacks the optional rear-wheel steering. Visibility is excellent as usual, and the 911’s hips don’t feel too wide when trying to navigate around Peugeots parked on sidewalks. It’s great on the freeway too, and even at higher speeds I’m able to hold a normal conversation with my drive partner thanks to the great wind…