Porsche 964 Carrera 2

1991 Porsche 964 Carrera 2 with the 3.6L Air Cooled Flat-Six producing 247 bhp

The Porsche 964 is the company’s internal name for the Porsche 911 manufactured and sold

between 1989 and 1994. Designed by Benjamin Dimson through January 1986, it featured significant styling revisions over previous 911 models, most prominently the more integrated bumpers. It was the first car to be offered with Porsche’s Tiptronic automatic transmission and all wheel drive as options.

The 964 was considered to be 85% new as compared to its predecessor, the Carrera 3.2. The first 964s available in 1989 were all wheel drive equipped « Carrera 4 » models; Porsche added the rear wheel drive Carrera 2 variant to the range in 1990. Both variants were available as a coupé, Targa or Cabriolet. The 964 Carrera was the last generation sold with the traditional removable Targa roof until the 2011 991(993, 996, and 997 versions used instead a complex glass-roof « greenhouse » system). A new naturally aspirated engine called the M64 was used for 964 models, with a flat-6 displacement of 3.6 liters.