---
title: "This 911 Turbo Cabriolet Is A Top Down Way To Get Down"
description: "HG Motorsports & BBi Autosport team for a 997 Turbo Cab that is an absolute laugh."
date: "2017-04-26"
modified: "2017-04-26"
authors:
  - name: "Bradley Brownell"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/bradley-brownell"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/9701/this-911-turbo-cabriolet-is-a-top-down-way-to-get-down"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Porsche News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "911"
  - "BBi Street Cup"
  - "Convertible"
  - "HG Motorsports"
  - "luxury"
  - "Matt Farah"
  - "One Take"
  - "porsche"
  - "sports car"
---

# This 911 Turbo Cabriolet Is A Top Down Way To Get Down

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This is a car that might seem incongruous at first. It's a convertible with a bunch of suspension goodies and 675 horsepower. The people who care about handling enough to put a full BBi Autosport Street Cup suspension and Carbon Revolution wheels on their car generally buy coupes, and the people who usually want a cabriolet are more about comfortable cruising than maximum lateral acceleration numbers. The people who don't understand why this car exists have likely never driven a Porsche cabriolet. This Turbo Cabriolet was a lot more rigid from the factory than most might believe, and with a bolt-in roll-bar and some additional chassis braces under the skin, what little chassis rigidity was lost by cutting the top off was regained.

BBi essentially gave this Turbo a full GT3 Cup suspension kit, which necessitates wider front fenders with integrated flares to accommodate a wider track. At the back, the car has a GT2 RS-style rear bumper and downforce-inducing decklid wing. Those modifications alone would have made for an intensely impressive automobile, but when you add in HG's engine work, this car is elevated to another level. Using a stock bottom end, HG can tune the 997.2's direct-injected turbocharged flat-six up to 675 horsepower. More than that, though, just listen to that wild exhaust note, it's constantly making spaceship noises, and we love it.

https://youtube.com/embed/In5FSAXH-e0

It's instantly obvious that Matt Farah appreciates this wildly over-built Turbo Cabriolet. He can't help but burst out in laughter with every hard press of the throttle. That seems like just the right amount of power for your bright-green on matte black turbocharged four-wheel drive rocketship. If you can get over the blisteringly loud seat belt straps, you'd probably love driving a car like this one. This Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet is joy on four wheels.

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