We revisit the Widowmaker to see if its fearsome reputation is justified two decades on from launch ❤️
I have a great fondness for the Porsche 996. Not because it's currently the cheapest route into 911 ownership, but because it was the first modern-feeling 911. People can crow all they want about its fried-egg headlights and liquid cooling, yet I'd have a 996 in my stable in a heartbeat. The driving position is fundamentally sound, the cabin ergonomics are fathomable, and 996s drive with way more civility than any of their air-cooled predecessors.
These days, BMW and Mercedes won't sell you an M5 or a E63 without four-wheel drive because they're considered too powerful to have just two driven wheels - in the hands of mere mortals, at any rate. Porsche made the same noises about the 996 Turbo. It needed four-wheel drive to be useable on the road, it said.
The front end doesn't bob as much as I remember old 911s doing. And I was anticipating a much softer car - more like a Turbo than a GT3. It feels much more like the latter, though, which is partly because the GT2 sits 20-millimetres lower than the Turbo. The ride can be quite punishing over really broken surfaces, but most of the time it's liveable enough, and, in return, the body feels properly tied down - more than some modern 992s.
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