Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £61,744 to £128,307
Powerkit's added pace; incredible traction; powerful brakes.
Powerkit's extra cost pitches the Carrera S head-to-head with sublime Audi R8 and comes off worse.
Appealing, if costly; stop-gap until the new direct injection engine range arrives.
Long gone are the days of peculiar offset seating positions and half-crazed ergonomics. Nowadays the 911's cabin is a comfortable place in which to sit.
There's even enough room to take three averaged-sized people... at a push. Pack conservatively with soft bags rather than hard cases and you'll even have enough luggage space in the nose for a week away for two.
Our car had the optional sport seats with electric adjustment (£1,680). If you get too tick-happy with the options list things start to get very expensive, very quickly - if you decide you want the rear wiper, you'll pay an extra £229. Our test car had more than £10,000 of goodies fitted, which is pretty alarming when you consider the already considerable £77,000 base price.
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wrote on 05 07 2006