The GREAT Debate: Is The Porsche 991 MK1 The NEW 993?

991.1 GTS with a manual and Burmeister is what I'll be looking for

the Benz E , S Class and Porsche are the only German Vehicles in my Garage!

Never any GM death traps.

No Japanese cars, my brother James?

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"130 ‘radioactive’ Japanese cars banned from entering Russia

The Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by an earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011, which resulted in the world’s biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Leakage of radiation-contaminated water has been the major threat to population and environment of Japan and neighboring states from the very beginning of the crisis at the facility, situated just 250 kilometers from Japan’s capital city, Tokyo.

However, the plant’s operator, TEPCO, did not acknowledge that contaminated water was escaping from the Fukushima plant into the ocean, and that it was unable to stop the leaks, until July 2013"

http://www.rt.com/news/japan-russia-fukushima-cars-201/

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"Food produced around the Fukushima nuclear disaster site could be making its way on to British shelves because of loopholes in safety rules, The Independent can reveal.

Products contaminated by radiation, including tea, noodles and chocolate bars, have already been exported from Japan under the cover of false labelling by fraudsters."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-from-fukushima-could-be-hitting-britains-shelves-through-legal-safety-loophole-10174298.html

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A total of 70 used cars imported from Japan and found to have increased levels of radiation are being stored in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and cannot be sent back, according to Silk Road Reporters citing local news outlets. Car retailers in Kyrgyzstan, who have been importing significant numbers of used cars from Japan for resale in the country, have been finding cars that exhibit levels of radiation above normal. Several batches of cars have been seized by the government during the last three years and have at times been sent back to Japan through an agreement with the Japanese government. However, irradiated cars keep turning up in Bishkek, the capital, and not all of them are being detected in a timely manner.

"These cars cannot be dispatched back. Neither China nor Japan will accept them. For this reason, we have to keep them here and deal with their further disposal," Tolo Isakov, director of the Disease Prevention Department in Bishkek, told the AKIpress news outlet, according to Silk Road Reporters.

http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/radioactive-cars-japan-keep-turning-central-asia

I'd have to agree with this. I think the "last" normally aspirated 911 will be a benchmark car. Make mine white with all wheel drive. There are very few cars I would say are "special", but after having driven a 911 for 3 weeks, a few months back, agree, this is a special car.

Yup, the 991 Mk1 is a great car - almost as good a sportscar as my Cayman GTS.

Thank the photographer for shooting pictures in the dark. It really helps not being able to view the Porsche.
Where do they find these clueless, unskilled dolt photographers?

Predicting supply and demand, which his really all that matters in the world of collectibles, is a difficult exercise at best.

Certainly, some aspects of the car will be fundamentally altered by going turbo but the performance, in every way, is likely to be better on the MK2. Add to this the thousands of 911s produced and I have a hard time making that call.

I am certainly not an authority in the matter but if it were my money, I would wait to see the reaction 911 owners reserve to the Mk2. One thing that helped the 993 significantly was the 996...

"His" = is (stupid homonyms)