Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £65,820 to £131,070
Staggering all-weather performance, practicality.
Fussy styling, more common than the equivalent Ferrari.
The best supercar on sale, but not the most exciting.
It should come as no surprise to learn that Porsche's durability testing is legendary and that, in comparison to other performance brands, it has a fine reliability record.
But the cars are not faultless and, given that the engine of the 997 shares many of its basic components with the old car, it's fair to assume it will inherit some of the same small niggles. Rear main oil seals can fail after time and there are a horde of complicated sensors that occasionally succumb to the heat of the engine bay. But that's about it and, for the performance on offer, these engines are remarkably robust.
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wrote on 05 07 2006