The very idea of the 996 ... rear wing wasn’t a tuned version of the standard 3.4-litre flat-six, but an all-new 3.6-litre unit based on the turbo from the firm’s GT1 supercar. Porsche re ...

Porsche's 911 continues to be the golden ... One of the biggest giveaways of the 996 GT3 is the large rear wing (seen above). Less than 5,000 examples were made of this generation of GT3.

I’m in the original 996 GT3 – in Speed Yellow ... ‘I love the delicacy of the steering and I love the organically folded rear wing. I think it might be perfect.’ I leave him stroking ...

In the interim, Porsche had facelifted the 996, swapping its ‘fried egg ... This model formed the basis of the 996.2 GT3 RS. Its fixed rear wing grew to race car proportions, extra vents ...

At the tail end of the 1990s, Porsche's transition to water-cooled power for the 911 saw the 996-chassis car fall ... a manual-only 911 that deleted the huge rear wing to fly under the radar ...

THE MOST desirable one of a kind 1998 Porsche 911 could be yours for £305K ... fixed “whale-tail” rear wing, the car was fitted with the more subtle Carrera S split-grille active rear ...

something usually reserved for Porsche’s RS models. It gets those same modifications as the Touring’s Lightweight pack but takes the use of CFRP even further by applying it to the rear wing ...

But only one car can claim to be the trendsetter that made “turbo” a household name: the Porsche 911 Turbo. More from Robb ...

Even Porsche has succumbed: every new 911 apart from the GT3 uses ... Rust may be found under or around the bonnet latch, plus around both door striker catches on the rear wings. Look for the ...

The first Porsche 911 GT3 debuted at the 1999 Geneva ... There's also no missing the rear wing which introduced swan neck struts for the first time, a design that maximizes the surface area ...

Until the late Nineties, all Porsche ... front wings, plus flatter headlamps, the 993 brought the biggest alteration in the 911’s shape since the original was introduced in 1964. The rear ...