FUTURE Classics BUYING GUIDE
If you’ve dreamed of owning a 911, this is the time to buy because you can snap up a 996 for the price of a packet of crisps. OK, not quite – but seriously, prices are rock bottom right now with £10,000 being a not too unrealistic starting price for an early one. Alas, like any gift horse there may be no reason to look in its mouth, but it’s still something that you need to enter into having done your research, particularly as there are a number of issues – albeit mostly with the early 3.4-litre examples – that could quickly render a temptingly ‘cheap’ 996 less appealing.
Breaking a tradition that singled out the 911 from inception, the 996 became the first model to ditch its air-cooled engine in favour of a four-valve per cylinder water-cooled unit when it replaced the now highly sought after
