How to celebrate a significant birthday? That’s always a difficult one and with the Porsche 911 it’s even more tricky. With over 1.2 million sold – the significant majority of which are owned by an army of informed, devoted enthusiasts – Total 911 knows it’s impossible to please everyone. Gather an example of every year for a 60-car photoshoot? However fantastic such a prospect might be, the logistics and expense would be so formidable that it’d break us… and this magazine.
One of every generation was considered, but that took us down a rabbit hole: which model within each would best represent it? Porsche itself has done so recently, too, and it’s all a bit predictable. So how did the collective editorial minds here at Total 911 arrive at the conclusion you’re looking at here? By following something of a guiding principle of Porsche itself – we decided to keep it simple. A manageable three cars were selected, with each one expansive enough to exemplify one of the three themes we’re exploring with the 60 years of the 911’s existence: genesis, revolution and the present.
You’ll be entirely right to disagree with our choices. Realistically, you could pick any year in the six decades the 911’s been around and come up with reasoning why an alternative model
