Porsche 911 GT2 (993)
Why 2.3: A 993 Turbo stripped of its all-wheel drive because the GT2 class banned it, then stripped of everything else: 1,290 kg, bolted-on plastic arch extensions over the wider track, a biplane wing with air intakes in the struts, and the twin-turbo 3.6 wound up to 430 hp. Porsche built it so the 911 GT2 racer could compete in the BPR and FIA GT2 class, badged the road car simply 911 GT, and sold 57 of them.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
Air-cooled 3.6 with twin KKK turbos, no rear seats, no deadening and a louder exhaust than the Turbo, so the clatter and turbine whistle arrive unfiltered. But two turbochargers still smother the top end that makes a GT3 sing, and 6,800 rpm is a short run. The loudest turbocharged air-cooled 911, capped under every NA GT car.
6-cylinder · turbocharged · 6,800 rpm redline · rated 7.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €166k (1996) → €1.7M (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
There aren't any — strict two-seater.
The only position there is — and the weak point of this era. Airbag cut-off switches only became routine in the mid-2000s; many of these cars have none from the factory, which rules out a rear-facing seat entirely unless a dealer-fitted deactivation was installed. Forward-facing on the belt, seat slid fully back, is what the period manuals allow.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
No 911 is driven less, and the reasons stack up. Fifty-seven road cars is a smaller run than the 959; the car was never certified for the United States, so the American collectors who set most Porsche prices had to import under Show or Display, which limits annual mileage by law; and values have gone from $200,000 to seven figures, with the best examples past $2 million. Rear-wheel drive, 430 hp on two turbos with no traction control, and an air-cooled engine that costs a house to rebuild complete the picture. A handful of European owners drive theirs on track days and at Porsche gatherings, and those cars are known by chassis number. The rest live in collections and appear at auction with delivery mileage, which is why the car scores like a trophy rather than a racing car for the road. The Garage Queen badge here is a statistic, not an insult.