In 1968 Vic Elford won the Monte Carlo Rally in a Porsche 911 T, and a week later helped Porsche to its first ever 24-hour race win at Daytona. And this former fact is the reason that Porsche has been able to market this new 911 Carrera T (and its 2017 predecessor) as the most sporting version at the ‘affordable’ end of the 911 range.
It always struck me as strange, because the original T was not a sporting 911 at all, but a poverty spec model for those who couldn’t afford a proper 911. It lost its fifth gear, anti-roll bars, crankshaft
