Handbuilt from 1995 to ’98 as a hardcore homologation special to enable Porsche to compete in the GT2 class of endurance racing: this is the ultimate iteration of the air-cooled line. The best road-going 993 GT2s were a rare sight at auction in the early 2010s; the main result of note came at the RM Sotheby’s London sale in October 2012, where a two-owner example with 16,000km fetched £324,800.
RM made headlines at the same event four years later, its 12,730km GT2 in sought-after Riviera Blue (right) the subject of fierce bidding, smashing its £750-850k estimate and finally being hammered away at £1,848,000. The result was seen as an outlier at the time and, unsurprisingly, it prompted a raft of consignments with higher estimates.