Porsche’s wasted little time between shrugging off the lockdown laziness and getting back into action. What you see here is the brand-new Targa. The half-a-century old tag joins the 911 range in two forms – Targa 4 and Targa 4S. You guessed it; they borrow mechanicals from the Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S, respectively. The party-piece is, of course, the peculiar design with a retractable roof, which can open or close in 19 seconds.

Both Targa derivatives house a 3.0-litre, six-cylinder boxer engine which is boosted by two turbochargers. The Targa 4 makes do with 380bhp/450Nm, whereas the Targa 4S gets an additional 64bhp/80Nm to take the total to 444bhp/530Nm. For the record, the lesser of the two still has 15bhp more power than its predecessor. As for the Targa 4S, it produces nearly 30bhp more than before. The ‘4’ represents all-wheel-drive in both Targa variants. As part of the standard kit are the 8-speed PDK transmission, Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and Porsche Traction Management (PTM).

Performance? Well, the Targa 4 can hit 100kmphs from a standstill in 4.2 seconds and top out at 289kmph. Those figures, in the same order, for the Targa 4S, are 3.6 seconds and 304kmph. As you’d expect, both derivatives are quicker to accelerate than their predecessors. The Targa 4 hits 100kmph one-tenth of second faster, whereas the new Targa 4S shaves four-tenths of a second.

All those figures are impressive! But the Targa’s real charm lies in its design. This time around Porsche has added more pronounced wheel housings at the front, and the tweaked bonnet design echos back to the first 911 generations. At the back, there’s a broader, variably extending spoiler and a light bar. Porsche says that except for the front and rear sections, the entire outer skin is aluminium. Other styling cues include 19-inch wheels at the front, 20-inch alloys at the back in the Targa 4. The 4S, on the other hand, gets 1-inch larger wheels.

In terms of features, both 911 derivatives in question boast the same sort of stuff as the Carrera models, including Porsche Wet Mode, LED headlights and two frameless displays, one each for the instrument cluster and infotainment purposes. The Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus comes as standard on the Targa 4S, and as an optional extra with the Targa 4.

Porsche has commenced accepting orders for the new 911 iterations, while deliveries should begin by September 2020.