Less kind observers call them ‘fried egg lights’, those melted-looking clusters on the nose of the 996-generation Porsche 911 of 1997 to 2006, before in the next breath bemoaning the model’s move from

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Resolutely unconventional, Porsche stuck to the rear-mounted engine for its fastest sports cars – despite experts claiming it was fundamentally unsound for good handling – and consistently outsold the

Being fired through time and space by a turbocharged Porsche engine is one of life’s great pleasures. We salute the best of the breed

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Porsche has hybridised the flagship 911 – and brought it back to life in the process, creating a thrillingly usable new performance car