We offer this 1991 Porsche 911 Cabriolet Carrera 4 for sale in our
Atlanta Showroom. Porsches run like responsive tools, alive to the
touch, bursting with character and fun. Serious fun. Yet no other
Porsche riles the same mental, physical, and emotional responses as
the new 911 Carrera 4. Rounding out the de�cade's return to road
projectiles, it may prequalify as the all-weather bahn bomber of
the millennium. The Carrera 4 was the most technically
sophisticated 911 ever to enter series production. A rousing
marriage of four-wheel drive, a 3.6-liter rear-mounted flat six
producing 247 hp, and a stout plat�form with a redesigned
suspension creates a whole as seamless as a ball bearing.
Remarkably stable, wickedly fast, and astoundingly easy to drive,
this 911 comes as a pointed fist in the face of doubters.
Rear-drive devotees decry four-wheel drive�despite Audi Quattros
knocking off the hottest pony cars Detroit could cough up for the
Trans-Am series. Here at last is a finely conceived, exquisitely
built, ruggedly rocketlike German sports car that redefines the
de�livery of all-out road performance via four-wheel drive. Only
fifteen percent of the 911 re�mains in the Carrera 4 (called the
964 within Porsche). The body borrows styling cues from Porsche's
voluptuous smoothy, the 959. In limited numbers, that supercar
brought four-wheel drive to the big-buck stratosphere with a
200-grand price and 200-mph performance. Porsche melds the 959's
basic 911 shape into the Carrera 4, mixing the form and function of
yesterday's standard and to�morrow's mark. With slicker bumpers,
taillights, and rocker panels and a wing that pops up at 50 mph to
minimize lift (and then re�tracts at about 6 mph), the Carrera 4
makes a better impression on the eye and a lesser dent in the wind.
Thanks to the slicked-up floorpan and the smoother leading,
lateral, and trailing edges, the Carrera 4 trims the regular
Carrera's Cd from 0.39 to 0.32�enough of a change to add both mph
and mpg at high speeds. The beauty of four-wheel drive is that its
dynamics tend to pay off at all speeds, whatever the conditions.
The Carrera 4 opens eyes without hinting anything is afoot�except
for tugging insanely at your body, rupturing your peripheral
vi�sion, and cannonballing you past can-yons and peaks, hills and
dales, meadows and forests, their roads rendered benign by the
Carrera 4. Porsche's big ventilated four-wheel discs and their
Bosch ABS circuitry proved lifesavers when we you around a bend and
over a bridge to find five deer mere feet from the pavement in the
swale beyond. Good thing, because Porsche's mighty flat six is an
"always" engine. It never stops hammering for more and rarely runs
out of the capacity to nail stunned thrill seekers to their seats.
In fact, if you intend to wrestle with the Carrera 4, warn your
passenger lest the stupefying performance unravel composure. The
911's flat base seats, even optioned with power adjustments, do
little to position the driver, passenger, or car. This car's got
plenty. It may be just a piece of German handiwork when you get
down to it, but the Germans are very handy. The Carrera 4 is proof
that, with effort and care, cost-no-object engineering can be made
reasonably practical and affordable. Options include: AC, Power
brakes, Power Seats, Cruise control, Performance Tires, Power
steering, AM/FM radio, Power Seats, Power Locks, Leather Interior,
Aluminum Wheels, Power Windows. To view the vehicle in greater
detail, including 100+ HD photos and HD video, please visit
www.gatewayclassiccars.com. For more information please call the
Atlanta showroom at 678-894-4833 or e-mail us at
[email protected].
