TOTAL 911 VERDICT

‘Where else can you buy a 195mph supercar you can use every day?’ was the rhetorical question in Autocar’s glowing 997.1 Turbo road test of June 2006. 15 years on, Paul Stacey observes that “pound for pound, for performance nothing else compares,” to explain why the market will still pay £55,000 for a Porsche that is vintage by today’s standards, to the uninitiated looks like any 911, and which is costly to maintain. But for the buyer who understands and accepts these factors, Autocar’s verdict, “still the all-weather supercar benchmark, astounding pace and ability mated to daily usability”, says it all.