Article: The Last True 911
04-29-2016, 02:40 PM
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Article: The Last True 911
Saw this in the latest GQ. At the end of the main story about Porsche being "green" with their new turbochargers, there's a sidebar on The Last True 911, aka the 993. The article is pasted below if you don't want to use the link.
http://www.gq.com/story/new-porsche-911-save-earth
The Last True 911
Like Orwellian barnyard animals, all 911s are equal, but some are more equal than others. The fourth generation—known to Porsche fiends as the 993 and sold in the U.S. from 1994 to 1998—is the most equal. It's considered the last, best of the real 911s, having ironed out the kinks of its forebears while retaining all their charms—most notably, it's the final 9'r to boast an air-cooled engine and its singular, spine-tingling guttural rasp. Post-993, everything changed. (The model that came after, with its newfangled water-cooled engine, flimsy build quality, and lazy-eye headlights, is the Godfather Part III of 911s.) This is why prices for used 993s have skyrocketed in the past five years. History doesn't come cheap.
http://www.gq.com/story/new-porsche-911-save-earth
The Last True 911
Like Orwellian barnyard animals, all 911s are equal, but some are more equal than others. The fourth generation—known to Porsche fiends as the 993 and sold in the U.S. from 1994 to 1998—is the most equal. It's considered the last, best of the real 911s, having ironed out the kinks of its forebears while retaining all their charms—most notably, it's the final 9'r to boast an air-cooled engine and its singular, spine-tingling guttural rasp. Post-993, everything changed. (The model that came after, with its newfangled water-cooled engine, flimsy build quality, and lazy-eye headlights, is the Godfather Part III of 911s.) This is why prices for used 993s have skyrocketed in the past five years. History doesn't come cheap.
04-29-2016, 02:52 PM
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Seared
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And, most important, it now offers the smugness of being a Porsche owner plus the righteousness of doing right by the earth.
Andreas
04-30-2016, 12:57 AM
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While the pedestrian 996s certainly had he newfangled water cooled engine, maybe they ought to have researched what the Turbos and GT variants are all about. Oh, and those pesky water cooled race cars starting in 1978.
04-30-2016, 01:02 AM
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Other thing I get a kick out of the revisionist historians on is the sound thing. When we first heard the 3.6 in '88, I think the consensus was "uh.....................huh." Nothing like a 3.5 slide valve with the exhaust of the day. So it wasn't a big bore thing. Best sound, I think, of all the generations is a solid lifter 3.0 RSR, wound out. Honorable mention for a little ol' 2.2 S. Kinda sucked that most guys ran obnoxious megaphones on them.
