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RARE TURBOS
There’s something uniquely special about the Porsche Turbo. A car that took the 911 into a new stratosphere when launched in 1975, it gave genuine supercar credentials to Zuffenhausen’s sports car icon with its bulging bodywork and explosive performance. The appeal of the Turbo since has been everlasting. Launched amid a global oil crisis it nevertheless flourished, becoming a symbol of excess by the mid-nineteen eighties and surviving prolonged exclusion from the United States and Japanese markets in the process. Now in its fourth decade of continuous production, the Turbo has also proved it’s still relevant today, beating away another existential threat, this time from within Porsche. 2015 saw the entire 911 Carrera range follow the Turbo’s suit by adopting forced induction: no longer a unique chapter of the 911 dynasty, many predicted used Turbo values would fall as a result. As it happened they held firm, at a time when prices of nearly every naturally aspirated 911 took a tumble instead.