Which is the best Porsche 911?

Well, it’s a U.S.-centric board. :wink:

It’s 25 years old now, so you’re free to import it to your heart’s content.*

*Assuming ample cash.

Yes, the rules changed over a decade ago. But they were out of production by then.

EDIT: Also, they only made like 300 of them. They needed to make a minimum number for homologation as a rally car. So it’s not really a ‘production model’ in the sense that the others are.

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Further clarification.

eta: Quite making excuses, you owe it to the dope now to buy a 959 and start a thread about it.

Have you got the number for Bill Gates, Paul Allen or Jerry Seinfeld? I seem to have misplaced them.

Not in the market. If I had the money to buy one, I wouldn’t. Maybe someday. Or just be satisfied I had a 911 once. But there are higher priorities.

They only made 1000 or so of the ducktail Carrera RS, which is widely acknowledged to be the best 911 of all time. The 959 was the most advanced road car ever built in its day, not to mention the fastest.

OK, so what do they say about “old Porsches and murder?”

The RS was excluded in the OP, and they only made one-third the number of 959s. The 959 was only a ‘production model’ so that they could get around the rally rules.

An article on Yahoo today.

How about a Singer 911? They are pricey, but the concepts are true to the original 911. They start with a type 911 (not 964, 993, etc) and flare the fenders a little for the “right” look.

The later models have just grown the car to be big, with a longer wheelbase to increase the polar moment and avoid the older problem of swapping ends when lifting throttle in a curve.

The Singer cars are pretty, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. And pricey maybe doesn’t come close to describing the cost. Prohibitive might be more accurate.

Singer has a gallery page but here are some quick, other images of Singer 911s.

It’s a hell of a thing, that Singer. Wow. Thanks for sharing that, echo7tango.

From an appearance persepective, the Singers take an early 911 and flare the fenders a bit. In reality, they pretty much use the chassis to make a 911-shaped exotic - they replace the body panels with carbon fiber, the interior with modern materials and electrics, and the engine and suspension of modern bits, some Porsche, some custom. It’s a vintage axe with the head and handle replaced.

As an exercise, they’re impressive. As vintage 911s, they’re a joke. Long before I shelled out for a Singer, I’d get a 911 2.7RS and/or 1967 911S SWB.

FYI–the latest issue of Car and Driver did a complete history of the 911 models including problems with each generation.

If you are an air cooled zealot–the 997 is the way to go; if not, go later.

You mean the 993?