997.2 Turbo · Journal
Deep, source-backed stories about the last manual 911 Turbo — history, technology, the market and the hunt.
It's beautiful, fast, reliable, commanding – and above all rare: the very last 911 Turbo you could order with three pedals. Why the 997.2 Turbo manual is a turning point in Turbo history.
From the 930 to the 992: where the 997.2 Turbo stands in the family tree – and why many consider it the most beautiful water-cooled Turbo of all.
Walter Röhrl calls the 997 Turbo 'marvellously analogue' – and it is exactly this feeling that makes the manual the connoisseurs' favourite today. What the legend and the specialist press say.
No car embodies the promise of 'inconspicuously unbeatable' as perfectly as the 911 Turbo. Why it has been outclassing pricier supercars in the real world for 50 years – and why the 997.2 manual is the purest form of this myth.