Porsche 993 turbo price guide

Porsche 993 turbo price guide
AVGPRICEIN2017:£150,000AVGPRICEIN2019:£120,000

Porsche would make its customers wait for a new  Turbo, but with the 993 Porsche’s engineers promised something more radical, and that’s exactly what was delivered. It arrived in 1996, three years after the standard Carrera was introduced. The 993 Turbo was quite a departure from the 964 and 930 Turbos before it, coming with twin turbochargers on its 3.6-liter engine and driving all four wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox.

Power was 408hp at 5,750rpm and torque 540Nm, eclipsing the outputs of its predecessors, its four-wheel-drive giving it the traction to exploit it for a 0-62mph time of 4.3 seconds. Prices back in 2018 reached as high as£180,000, Adam Daniell from JZM Porsche describing the 993 Turbo as “really hot for a while”, also adding that “the right cars are still selling”. Averages today are around the £120,000 mark, but as Daniell says, the best cars will still command a sizeable premium.

The last of the air-cooled Turbos was a formidable car in its day. Bettering contemporary Ferraris for pace, the 3.6-liter unit was significantly revised over its 964 predecessors, with stronger internals to cope with the bigger forces working inside this– GT2 and later Turbo S aside– ultimate road-going iteration of the air-cooled flat-six. Most significant were the small, fast-reacting KKK K16 twin turbochargers, these working not sequentially, but on each individual bank of cylinders– as did the intercoolers and exhausts– helping not to eradicate, but at least reduce the throttle lag that was something of a 911 Turbo signature.

Four-wheel drive would tame the 911 Turbo’s sometimes wayward dynamics too, the 993 Turbo a car that could exploit its prodigious power more often, even in the rain. Taking the 993 hallmarks of finer wheel and body control, allied to the four-wheel-drive system’s huge traction and grip, the 993 Turbo is one of the best all-round performance cars you can buy. If that’s not enough to tempt you, we’re not sure what will. Softening values might help, as does the fact the 993 Turbo is a car that’s still genuinely usable. It’s less demanding but no less thrilling than its forebears to drive. If you’re after the ultimate air-cooled 911 Turbo then this is it, the 993 Turbo arguably dictating not just the direction the turbo cars would take with the introduction of the 996, but also that of the standard Carreras.

993 Turbo buying guide: five key points
1- Check the brake calipers. They can corrode, and if they’ve been left to do so they’ll need replacing–at around £900 each for the front ones.

2 - Like all 993s the turbo can be blighted by the windscreen creaking. It can be sorted, but it’ll require the removal of the screen.

3- Taking the screen out is worth doing to check for any signs of corrosion around it, which is something of a problem in 993s.

4 - Oil can seep into the turbos, exhausts, and intercoolers on little-used cars. It's possible to fit a check valve to stop this.

5- The Turbo suffers the same issues as its Carrera relations, so check the doorstop straps, the rear lights, and the ventilation system. You should also take a look at the rear chassis leg mounts, which can corrode.