964 Reviews

I have been buying bits of 964 sales literature and reviews from folks on eBay.  I will be checking with the magazines that still exist to gain permission to publish on this site but in the meantime I hope nobody will mind me replicating them here for your enjoyment.

Firstly, Some Recent Reviews.

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Happy Birthday 911

911 & Porsche World and GT Purely Porsche have kindly allowed my to host the 964 articles from their 911 40th Anniversary features.  Thanks to Phil Raby and Ian Hunt.  Both are .pdfs of around 1.2Mb.


900Kb!
Phil Raby's 'Pick of the Bunch' review of six 964 variants - including my C4 Coupe
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Car Magazine reviewed my 964 in their May 2001 Issue in a feature titled "Never Buy a Boring Car Again". European Car's article 'A Look Back: 1989 Porsche Carrera 4' is available online 911 & Porsche World's March 2002 issue included a 964 Buyer's Guide. Seven great articles from GT Purely Porsche magazine featuring the 964.

Carrera 4: First Reviews from 1989.

These four reviews were reprinted and packaged by Porsche Cars North America in a sales brochure reflecting how the Carrera 4 was received by motoring journalists.  The reviews were the result of a Porsche Carrera 4 test drive jolly in Nice, France in November 1988.  Overwhelmingly positive!

Click the thumbnails below for the reviews and click the page index iconand select 'return to reviews' to get back here.  Review are optimised for fast download and easy text reading rather than photo quality.

Automobile - Feb 1989 Road & Track - Feb 1989 Car and Driver - Feb 1989 Porsche Panorama - Jan 1989

 

Excellence Reviews

An early 1990 Review of the Carrera 4 from Excellence magazine and their  three part series on tweaking your 964 entitled 'Wringing out the Carrera 4'.  Thanks to Chris Deel for these scans.

Excellence Review of the Carrera 4 - Feb 1990 Excellence articles 'Wringing out the Carrera 4' - 1992

 

More Reviews

I am extremely grateful to Ruairidh Ross who scanned and emailed me the following reviews.  Thank Ruairidh for all your effort.  I have reformatted the reviews in Adobe Acrobat.  You will need Adobe's reader to view them. They are around 1Mb each so I suggest you right click on the images and download them to your hard drive first.

Oh, and check our Ruairidh's stunning 964 Cabriolet on the Wallpaper page.

Road & Track 11/88 Autocar 1/89 Fast Lane 11/89 Autocar 12/89
Autocar 5/90 Motor Trend 11/90 Road & Track C4 Cab. Road & Track C2 Tip

 

Carrera 2 and Carrera 2/4 Comparisons

Carrera 2 Road Test - Read an original 1989 review from Autocar and Motor 

Carrera 4: How Good? - And a 1989 C4/C2 comparison also from Autocar and Motor

Links to Yet More Reviews

Jan-Willem Hubbers' 964 site  has some of the reviews above and also Evo's Oct 2001 Greatest 911 Review.
 

Simon Galbally's personal review  - 964 Cynics, Get Real!

Frontal  viewSonny Vo's Turbo site has half a dozen reviews on the 964 3.6 Turbo.
 

For Porsche Sales and Dealer Literature you can't beat Mclellans.  1,500 pieces for sale with photos to show what you are getting.