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The arrival of water-cooled flat-six powerplants for the launch of the Boxster and 996-generation 911 marked the biggest change in direction for Porsche since its inception as a sports car maker almost fifty years earlier. Beyond arguments concerning ‘fried egg’ headlights and ‘proper’ Porsches, however, were changes to the company’s GT-badged offerings, with the naturally aspirated 996 GT3 arriving in 1999 as a homologation model for cars entered into the FIA’s exciting (and enduring) GT3 motorsport category, which Porsche continues to dominate to the present day.
Successive generations of GT3-derived 911s have become hot property, but back in the mid-1990s, Porsche was preparing to participate in the then new GT2 racing class. To achieve its goal, the 993 GT2 was launched and, as the FIA’s rulebook dictated, a small number of related road cars were built to satisfy homologation requirements. Consequently, fifty-seven units (thirteen of them right-hand drive) were readied for street use, resulting in one of the most valuable
