Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £61,744 to £128,307
Huge amounts of grip; sharp, direct steering; quick-shifting automatic gearbox; excellent performance.
Expensive to run, manual gearchange a little unwieldy, heavy clutch.
The four-wheel-drive Porsche 911 is now even better.
Porsche 911s hold their value - the previous incarnation retained between 54% and 56% of its original value after three years or 36,000 miles and we don't expect that to change much with this latest version.
There's little to choose between the Carrera 4 and Carrera 4S, but if you want to maximise your resale value, the standard model will return fractionally more.
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wrote on 05 07 2006