PORSCHE 997 CARRERA

‘04 TO ’13

IF THE PORSCHE 996 was panned in its day as the radically divergent first-born of the 911’s watercooled era, the 997 represented the model’s coming of age.

In many ways, the 997 can be thought of as a definitive vintage of 911. Visually, it returned to the signature circular headlights up front and the more ergonomic, and more timeless, dashboard visually sets the template for the succeeding 991 series, produced up until 2019. Virtually every design cue for today’s 911 can be traced in root back to the timeless