DRIVING IMPRESSION:
My day off in a pair of classic perfect Nines
Mark Smyth experienced the Porsche 911R and its ancestor the 964 Turbo in Germany
I sat down to lunch on a beautiful summer’s day in Germany. Sat high up in the restaurant of an ancient German schloss, I perused the menu. Then I looked out of the window ahead of me. A tractor was ploughing the field but alongside it a road twisted and turned up the hill and off into the distant trees. A hillclimb. Who needs lunch when you have access to the keys of a Porsche 911R. I wound my way back down the old stone staircase and back to the car, a car that commanded a massive premium just moments after its launch in 2016. On the dash was a plaque denoting that it was car 000 of 991, a pre-production model, one destined never to be sold. It had red stripes, unique 911R bodywork and a six-speed manual gearbox, one of the reasons why it was lusted after by collectors around the world.
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