1991 Porsche 911
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Porsches run like responsive tools, alive to the touch, bursting with character and fun. Serious fun. Yet no other Porsche riles the same mental, physical, and emotional responses as the new 911 Carrera 4. Rounding out the decade's return to road projectiles, it may prequalify as the all-weather bahn bomber of the millennium. The Carrera 4 was the most technically sophisticated 911 ever to enter series production. A rousing marriage of four-wheel drive, a 3. 6-liter rear-mounted flat six producing 247 hp, and a stout platform with a redesigned suspension creates a whole as seamless as a ball bearing. Remarkably stable, wickedly fast, and astoundingly easy to drive, this 911 comes as a pointed fist in the face of doubters. Rear-drive devotees decry four-wheel drive-'despite Audi Quattros knocking off the hottest pony cars Detroit could cough up for the Trans-Am series. Here at last is a finely conceived, exquisitely built, ruggedly rocketlike German sports car that redefines the delivery of all-out road performance via four-wheel drive. Only fifteen percent of the 911 remains in the Carrera 4 (called the 964 within Porsche). The body borrows styling cues from Porsche's voluptuous smoothy, the 959. In limited numbers, that supercar brought four-wheel drive...