The turbo engine can trace its ancestry back to the old air-cooled units and is directly related not only to the 996 GT3 but also the ... sometimes known as the mk2, also saw body revisions ...

Amongst 911s you could make a case for many an RS model, or even the 1987 Carrera CS (for Club Sport), being a forerunner of the current GT3, but in the end the 996 GT3 was just too neat to ignore ...