Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £65,820 to £131,070
Fabulous driver's car, practical and easy to use supercar, best looking modern 911 yet.
Gently evolutionary styling makes it look a bit too much like the older model. That's about it.
Just when you think they can't make the 911 better, they do. The advance isn't huge, but the previous car wasn't exactly lacking.
The sixth-generation 911 takes another conservative, evolutionary step in what seems like a story with no end. The latest car carries over just 20 percent of the previous model's componentry, and most of that is in the engine bay. And even though you could mistake the new 911 for the previous model at a glance, every body panel is new apart from the roof. The biggest clue to the new car is in the separate round headlights, which hark back to 911s of old and further distinguish the 911 from its Boxster sibling - the previous 911 had shared the less expensive Boxster's nose. Elsewhere, you'll find a wider track and a more slender waistline, which gives the 911 a more muscular, powerful stance on the road. No question, the new car is much better looking than the car it replaces. The other significant news is that two new engines are on offer, a 3.6-litre flat-six with 325bhp for the regular Carrera, or a hotter 3.8-litre 355bhp engine for the Carrera S.
The first-launched two-wheel drive Carrera coupes have now been joined by cabriolets (see separate road test), four-wheel drive Carrera 4 and 4S models, and even higher-performance GT3 and Turbo variants (all also reviewed separately).
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wrote on 05 07 2006