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993 Carrera Coupé — generation hero photograph

9931994–1998

Last Air-Cooled

The last air-cooled 911, and a modern classic

The 993 was built from January 1994 to March 1998 as the fourth 911 and the last air-cooled Porsche. Tony Hatter’s redesign kept the silhouette but added flatter polyellipsoid headlights, integrated bumpers and a new LSA (Light, Stable, Agile) aluminium chassis with a multi-link rear axle that cured lift-off oversteer; only about a fifth of the parts carried over from the 964. The engine line ran from a 272 PS 3.6-litre flat-six to the 285 PS VarioRam car and the first biturbo 911, a 408 PS twin-turbo. The range widened into Carrera 4S and Carrera S, the 300 PS Carrera RS, the rear-drive GT2, the 450 PS Turbo S, plus rare Speedster and Turbo Cabriolet specials. Road production ended on 31 March 1998, and today the 993 is widely treated as the most desirable post-classic 911.

All 15 variants

Generation summary figures

Production

68,8811993–1998)

Engine

3.6air-cooled flat-six, 272–285 PS

Milestone

Last air-cooled 911 (final road car 31 Mar 1998)

First twin-turbo 911

408300 kW) in 1995

Chassis

LSA aluminium multi-link Weissach rear axle

Transmission

First 911 with a six-speed manual

The range

15 variants

993 · every entry linked

Watch

4 films on the 993

Curated from the 15 variants of the 993. Nothing is downloaded from YouTube — each player is an embed that only loads when you press play.

  • Generation · 9WERKS TV

    Porsche 993 Carrera buyer's guide: full story on the last air-cooled 911

    best single summary of the last air-cooled generation

  • Generation · MotorWeek

    Retro Review: 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo (993)

    the 400 PS twin-turbo that made the 993 turbo standard

  • Generation · Petrolicious

    1995 Porsche 993 Speedster: Unicorn Conversion

    factory Speedster conversion, one of a handful

  • Generation · Tedward

    Driving the 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera RS - 300hp 3.8L Air Cooled Lightweight (POV Review)

    binaural POV of the 3.8 RS, the driver's 911 of the era

What the sources do not settle (5)

  • Total 993 production differs by source: 68,881 (Porsche Newsroom, 1993–1998), 68,029 (Wikipedia production table), 67,535 (Porsche one-millionth-911 press kit, 2017).
  • Media fields (heroImage, timelineImage, model3d, videos) are intentionally empty pending ASSET-IMAGES / ASSET-3D / ASSET-VIDEO.
  • Variant roster had no 'carrera-s' id; 'carrera-s' and 'turbo-cabriolet' were appended as distinct variants per contract rule 5.
  • 911 GT1 Evo (1997) and 911 GT1-98 (1998) are deliberately out of scope as separate variants — both are GT1-homologation racing cars (the '98 took overall victory at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans), and the chapter models the road-legal GT1 (gt1) plus the 993 GT2 Evo that began the programme (gt2-evo)
  • The 911 GT1 is filed in this chapter although Porsche never badged it a 993: only its headlamps and front chassis come from the 993, the rest is 962C — see the gt1 variant's missing[] notes