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HISTORY OF THE 9A1

The current 9A2 engine may well take the 911 into the hybrid era, but the 9A1 before it was a scintillating flat six as breathtaking as it was reliable under the decklid Written by Kieron Fennelly
The 9A1 engine was introduced for the second-generation 997 Carrera variants from 2008, at last heralding a change to direct fuel injection on a road-going 911
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