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 rarely features in reliability or customer satisfaction surveys so it's difficult to tell how well the 911 Carrera fares against the opposition. In the US, however, the brand is celebrating a number one spot in the JD Power reliability survey, which concluded that Porsches suffered the lowest number of problems per 100 cars, ahead of Japanese luxury brands Infiniti and Lexus.
The previous model suffered from costly engine main seal failures, but Porsche insists the all-new engine blocks' superior stiffness mean this will not be a problem.
There are a few changes in the interior and those changes are for the better. Some of the plastics around the stereo system and the centre console have been upgraded but it's still not quite as inspiring as the cabin quality in its main rival, the Audi R8.
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wrote on 05 07 2006