PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 2

Carrera 2: classic rear engine, rear drive layout

The 911 Carrera 2 is the time-honored Porsche, a true 2+2, powered by an air-cooled, rearmounted boxer engine, driving the rear wheels. This is the classic Porsche concept, proven on open roads and race tracks the world over beginning with the first Porsche 356of1948. Compared to many conventional front engine sports cars, the rear engine/rear drive format of the Carrera 2 provides enhanced acceleration performance thanks to the addition of the powertrain weight on the drive wheels. The mechanical layout of the Carrera 2 offers enthusiasts the renowned Porsche handling, refined over more than four decades of building rear-engined, rear-drive high performance cars.

Porsche's core sports car concept

The present Carrera 2 was introduced in October 1989 as a 1990 model. Porsche's unique, optional Tiptronic automatic transmission was first applied to the 1990 Carrera 2. The quintessential rear engine, rear-drive, normally aspirated Porsche Carrera 2 is arguably the best-loved Porsche of all time. In 1992, it was voted best sports car by the readers of the prestigious German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport for the fifteenth consecutive year. The 911 Carrera 2 represents the core of Porsche's sports car concept, upon which the other models of the 911 family are based.

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