Fifty years ago, Porsche bolted ‘ein Turbolader’ to the 911 and created a legend. Richard Lane drives three of the best
Bruntingthorpe, rather a long time ago. It’s the day of Autocar’s 0-100-0 showdown, and a nasal-sounding 911 with crescent-shaped cutouts in its flanks has just split the difference between two cars that, by comparison, are so ‘super’ they may as well have turned up wearing capes. One of them is a flyweight Pagani costing three times as much as the Porsche. It has, by the lacquer of its carbon clamshell, escaped with dignity intact, wailing to 100mph and back with 1.
The 930 got the ball rolling in 1974, the 996 set the tone for the modern-era Turbo as we now know it, and the 993 bridges those two worlds. We should probably get on and drive the things, starting with the 996. The 911 Turbo of the millennium may not have been blessed with the finest cabin or the most charismatic looks, but it packs a legendary motor. Not that you would know it at first.
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