The best cheap used Porsche sports car may be the Porsche 944 from 1982-91. Though one might also consider the Porsche 986 Boxster from 1997 to 2004.

This turbocharged convertible German supercar packed over 400hp, but today it's worth a fraction of its MSRP in the used ...

This brought in another Porsche legend: engine designer Hans Mezger ... What makes it stand out is that the 996 Turbo packs a legendary motor. Not that you would know it at first.

Of course, this was the story I told non-car enthusiasts — the real motivation behind the move was the enticingly low prices of 996-generation ... of a 420-horsepower twin-turbo flat-six never ...

Since its origins in 1948, Porsche has become ... from its predecessor, the 996 Turbo, which only clocked in at 420hp. One of the last cars to use the Mezger engines, the 997 Turbo eventually ...

Some will tell you that it's the ugly duckling of the family, and others will warn you that their engines are prone to blow up unexpectedly. The 996 is the most affordable Porsche 911 Turbo model ...

He designed numerous Porsche engines during his tenure there ... to develop the higher-powered versions of the 996 (namely the GT2, GT3, and Turbo versions), understandably had little confidence ...

Not so long ago, admitting to liking the 996-generation Porsche 911 was the sort of thing you only did ... with prices creeping up as a result. This 2001 996 Turbo is one of the fastest forms of the ...

(Our face-lifted 996.2 version, arriving in 2002, spatula’d that away with a cleaner design like that of the Turbo models.) Worse, Porsche’s switch to a water-cooled engine for the 996 marked ...

The Porsche 996 is being rediscovered ... Then a few more. The M96 engine became a pariah. A narrative about cost-cutting took over and the 996’s mechanicals, materials and interiors were ...

The Porsche 911 Turbo has long been a member of the sports ... and it wasn’t plagued with the issues of regular 996 engines. The Turbo’s sophisticated all-wheel-drive system is adept at putting the ...