HISTORY & TECH
The renown of the Porsche Turbo extended well beyond the realm of 911 fans, long before the end of the air-cooled cars. This synonym for wild performance, so redolent of the 1970s, was an image that Porsche had been trying to change since 1984. The stillborn 965 Turbo was an attempt to make a high-spec 4x4, a kind of lesser 959. With the 993 Turbo in 1995, Porsche went much further down the route of creating a sophisticated, range-topping 911 GT with twinturbocharging and all-wheel-drive. The advent of water-cooling and the first new 911 chassis since 1963 enabled Porsche to design the 996 Turbo from the ground up. No longer would engineers have to shoehorn turbochargers, intercoolers and air-conditioning into a shell that was never conceived for them in the first place.