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Above: 997.2-generation Carrera coupe and Cabriolet. In the probably not too distant future, we鈥檒l be able to look at a 911 history broken into three epochs: air-cooled, water-cooled, and hybrid. The 997.2-generation 911 Carrera, which celebrates its tenth birthday later this year, may well go down as being one of the most loved/sought-after of the water-cooled 911s. We should probably be snapping them up in droves now. Above: 997.2 Carrera 4 models typically command a premrium over a Carerra. I find the 997鈥檚 predecessor, the 996, to be an attractive car. I鈥檝e owned two of them now, a base Carrera and a Turbo. Still, I get a twinge of jealously whenever I see a 997 鈥?it鈥檚 an exceptionally pretty car both inside and out. From the engine compartment lid louvers to the headlights, indicators, and hood cut line, a 997, particularly in a funky color like Macadamia or Malachite Green, is a very attractive car.
The interior re-design was also a success, giving the 911 a center stack that for the first time looked like something other than an afterthought. Overhyped or not, the bane of any M96/M97-engined Porsche is the intermediate shaft (IMS) bearing. In the 997.1, it鈥檚 a particularly nuanced situation 鈥?from mid-2005 through 2008 the bearing is not replaceable without an engine removal and tear-down. While those flat-sixes have among the lowest failure rates of IMS-equipped water-cooled engines, the feeling of the Sword of Damocles hanging over one鈥檚 head is still there to some extent. The 997.2 introduced in the fall of 2008 for model year 2009 at last did away with the IMS bearing and introduced direct-injection and Porsche鈥檚 brilliant PDK gearbox. The 997.2 engines were simpler designs with 40% fewer parts than its predecessor and has developed few reported hiccups and certainly no pattern of catastrophic failures. Above: 997.2 Carrera Cabriolet.
In terms of usable performance, the 3.6-liter 997.2 base Carrera is all anyone needs in a daily driver. It鈥檚 relatively light at around 3,200 pounds, and with 345 horsepower, zero-to-60 miles per hour comes up in around four-and-a-half seconds. The top speed is somewhere around 180 mph. Maybe not absolute top-shelf today, but neither will you be smoked by a Kia Stinger. The 997 looks and feels like a rear-engined car. Now for the best part: The base Carrera is hands-down one of the biggest bargains in the Porsche world. 35,000 for a lightly optioned car with 60,000 to 100,000 miles. That鈥檚 a bargain for a car with no IMS worries, excellent reliability and an available PDK gearbox for those who don鈥檛 want to shift for themselves. There might be a hair of depreciation left in the 997.2, but my gut tells me that this is the bottom of the curve, and we鈥檙e unlikely to see examples (other than the ones with lunar miles) in the twenties.
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