That 0-60 time was mind blowing back then. Still impressive today!

0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds in 1989, very impressive!

"It's a collection of curves that makes Saturday afternoon washing and waxing into an R-rated experience."

247hp and did the quarter in 13.3! Damn that’s good. Favorite Porsche body style ever.

I love motorweek, one of the best TV shows for car people.

Many wish that cars were still produced like this. I for one wish that MotorWeek episodes were still produced like this. That intro was deep.

$69,500 in 89 = $142,252 today .... WOWZERS!!

Everybody take a drink when John makes a comment about an oil pressure gauge and another one for Volt meter 🤣

Still faster than 90% of cars on the road Respect

I can't get enough of these retro reviews

Over $70000 in 1989-90 is crazy. Today thats almost 150k. Thats starting to get into GT3 territory.

I was in the gray market back then a imported lots of 930, 911,928s and you know who made up my customer list, mostly US fighter pilots.

Retro Reviews RULE

Way faster than I would have imagined for having 247 horsepower. Cars are too bloated these days.

I remember watching this back when it came out & wanted a red 911 C4 in May of 1999 I found a1994 Wide Body 911 Carrera 4 red & it still turns heads & I still love it almost 21 years later.

Yes this a review of the 1990 model. It's the first year with airbags. A book about the 1989 model tells about the 959 technology incorporated in the Carrera 4. It's not as quick as the 1990 but I've never driven a car that felt so flat around turns. It's grip is amazing.

Porsche always appears to make magic on their cars

Thank you for uploading these old reviews, a great watch.

The 964 Carrera 4 is a gem. AWD in a 1960s performance car with an air cooled engine. Even in 1952 auto enthusiasts were bemoaning how the new cars lack true driver involvement!

Great car. No nonsense performance, braking, and awd handling with auto-sensing locking diff nice!

Still have it in the garage (guards red not gramma beige) and it won't do 0-60 in 4.5. Low to mid 5 sec. Range is more like it as I know its for sure slower than a c5 vette. Porsche was nearly broke at the time and almost discontinued the 911. Hard to believe today. Won't part with the car as the tactile connection with the driver cannot be replicated by more modern cars.

The air cooled cars were great. The 964 is a bit more complex than the previous 911's, but you still have a chance to maintain this car yourself 30 years later as this was baked into the design philosophy. Simply amazing cars then and now.

Amazing how this design hasn’t aged

Wow, even with inflation it really isn't that much more expensive today. Plus that 0-60 time is pretty darn impressive even back then. All that 959 DNA.

Amazing numbers for the time. Also amazing: that Porsche would put a Camry beige model in the press fleet.

Damn, that's still respectably quick today!

I love these retro reviews

Porsche is always 10+ yrs ahead of the game

I have a 1990

That thing was STUPID QUICK for 1989! It's still competitive today!

I kind of wonder if Motorweek got a "ringer". Aka a tweaked press car. I don't remember 911's of this era being that fast, at least non-turbo ones. Anyways, those are IMPRESSIVE numbers for 1989. Also this was the first 911 to offer AWD as an option.

I miss air cooled porches. They are old school hard core kind of cars. New ones are better and more refined but I think the old ones were more fun.

964 Carreras are the best looking 911s imo, followed closely by 993s.

As a huge fanboy of the Japanese “supercars” of this era (Supra Twin Turbo, 300ZX TT, FD RX-7, NSX, and even 3000GT VR4) this car always used to piss me off at what it was able to do with so little🤔 Very impressive.....a Corvette ZR1 of this era with significantly more power was barely any quicker

Last night I dreamt I was ripping one of these around my hometown. I feel like I’ve been on happy juice all day long, as a result. Maybe one of these are in my future. They cost about the same now as they did when they were new, but considering that $70,000 in 1989 is about $150,000 in 2020, I’ll take the “discount.“

4.5 0-60 Christ didn't know these were that quick, very impressive for the time and power

I had a 964 (Carrera 4 not the 964-2 Carrera 2), and I am totally sure it should have been R Rated: enjoyment, pleasure, you could also do it alone, do it as a couple, invite one or 2 friends, have another one behind the wheel, do it faster on straight lines, enjoy the curves, feel the roads like I never had, high revs, hard breakings that don't stop the fun but prepare for another burst of sensations! In 1999 I had the choice of an used Boxster (recent one) with it's incredible balance, or and 90's 964 "old lady" really harder to driver for the same price, and I chose the MILF. It was tremendous! Either in Frenche Savoie goind and returning from ski station, sometimes driving on snow, quietly doing Paris - Albertville (600km) commuting, and also running on the Deutsche Autobahn with other Porscher, between 160 to 240 Km/h (100mph to 150mph).

Such a nice review, they used to do it right back in the day. It has everything, 1/4, 0-60, braking. Comparison to previous models, pros and cons. Now I have to listen to some pimple faced teenager burning through his dad's savings to tell me how he feels about how the car looks, without going through the performance figures.

What a beautiful car

Could you guys post the 80's Pontiac Bonneville SSE review?

I had the exact same 89 911 C4 I use to take to RRR.

And today Porsche can get those impressive times...from their station wagon!

One of the main car mags had the Carrera 4 0-60 at 4.8. Yes it was that quick.

Its almost 2019 and i still afford this car that was built in 1989...

Love the shape.

I'd personally take the keys to the 993, but this is a matter of taste.

Porsche managed to wring a couple more years out of an ancient body. Mark my words, the car will be history by 1993.

4.5 0-60 in 1990 w 247hp? Wow. Talk about Porsche understating their power figures I know it’s light but for comparison the Focus RS w AWD and 350hp does about 5.6sec or so from what I gather. I do love these old Porsches though. Shame prices are going nuts. Even the 924s are getting up there

Had. A friend with a 90 Porcshe 911 but it was a Carrera2, nice car but some stuff seemed old inside. Even the 2wd was fast as the engine hang over the rear wheels. Good car.

I didn’t know a convertible was that much more expensive than the coupe! Look at the prices now haha.

Toyota had the Turbo All Wheel Drive Celica, in 1988.

The new 964 Carrera 4.

At 3:20, Motor Week tries to describe *Lift-Throttle-Oversteer* but doesn't do a good job of it. Let me give it a try: When your *911 C2* is in a tight-turn at speed, and you make the rookie-mistake of lifting-off the throttle, which creates engine-braking, which affects only the rear wheels, which makes the rear-end lift-up a bit, which allows the rear wheels to lose contact with the road, which can cause the rear-end to spin-out of the tight-turn, then is when you're in a Lift-Throttle-Oversteer situation. However - When your *911 C4* is in a tight-turn at speed, and you make the rookie-mistake of lifting-off the throttle, which creates engine-braking, which affects ALL FOUR wheels, which PREVENTS the rear-end from lifting-up significantly, which PREVENTS the rear wheels from losing contact with the road, which PREVENTS the rear-end from spinning-out of the tight-turn, then is when you're using technology to look like a better driver than you really are. (Yeah, I've always been one of the tech-loving rookies.)

The 964 is a nice model. The 993 is so gorgeous though.

Looks better than the 993.

13.30 back in 1989 would have destroyed a C4 Corvette and the Grand National.

And it still is the king of the road. The 964 generation and older ones i mean 😁

I want to see a video of a rear driven 911 , vs the NSX.

A day or so ago I watched the 1992 Porsche 911 turbo Motorweek review and that car had a 0-60mph time of 4.8 seconds. This 1989 Carrera 4 has a 0-60mph time of 4.5 seconds, and to the best of my knowledge, the Carrera is supposed to be the base model and normally aspirated. The turbo model is supposed to be the top of the range. Based upon this observation, it appears the basic model is quicker than the top model, and in 3 years, the car became slightly slower.

Porsche carreira é muito maravilhoso imagina como é a velocidade sensacional 👍👍😁

0-60 in 4.5 secs? WTF...that's quick for 2018

Wow! Almost 30 years later, and 5.0L Mustangs with 450 horsepower are now within this range of these performance figures. Hell, my 280 horsepower Honda Accord Coupe, with a 6-speed manual, can't even come close to this performance figures. One note, this car has a transverse engine, in the rear, allows for less parasitic horsepower loss, due to the drivetrain, to the wheels. Overall, I don't understand why more companies don't do a transverse layout, in the rear. Porsche horsepower is in a different performance league.

By today's standards those are great numbers!

Wow what a price tag.. new booster today

To 60 in 4.5 seconds, that has to be wrong. 996 with 300 hp is 5.1 seconds and that was the fastest 911 ever.

7:25 That panel gap tho. Still want one.

the older 911s had a terrible driving position , love the rev gauge in the centre , speedo to the side

I'm shocked at how fast this car was.

Que belleza de auto. 🌐🌎🌍🌏

This car is still fast today! The guys today brag about the new Honda Civic type R and this blows its doors off to 60 and 1/4 mile.

Lmao funny how they say lift off oversteer made the rwd version a handful

I find it hard to believe how this thing flies. It's not even a Turbo yet the almost twice as powerful 959 is hardly any better in straight line acceleration.

Hmm, why my Porsche Carrera 4s 2006 is slower for 0-60 mph than the old one?

This was the beginning of the overcomplicated Porsche with its airbags.

Here, the "true" 911 started to die. A 911 is a car that you are glad you survived. Especially in the wet. This car was just, well... too good.

This is actually from '90, not '89.

4.5 seconds to 60? Why is it so fast? That's what a 964 Turbo would run

There is no way they got that car to 60 in 4.5

13.3 @ 104 is HORSEHIT! In Ashburn, Virginia in 1993 I came to a stoplight with a 964. I was in my '92 Corrado SLC, and it was stock. I was 150 pounds, my passenger was 225, and the guy in the 964 was about 200+. We raced and it was neck and neck! My corrado pulled a 14.86 @ 94.25 at Orlando Speedway in Bithlo a few years later with only me and a Neuspeed cat back exhaust installed. The 964 wasn't a drag car, it was useful in curves if you knew what you were doing. But it was NO faster than a VR6 powered Volkswagen....

I was watching this one video on KZfaq that showed a 1987 911 with manual transmission and convertible top could not break 8.5 seconds to 60 mph. The quarter mile was done between 18 and 19 seconds at just over 80 mph. Pathetic. It lost a lot of power over the years. I still like the car though.

Yep agree with all that sensual stuff

Looks very similar to a vw beetle.

Late 80s Porsche

my honda s2000 is 2800lbs 3000 with me in it and the same 247hp, this carrera is 3250lbs with prob an adult 200lb male which is now 3450lbs my car does 0-60 in 5.4-5.6 secs how the hell does this 911 carrera clock 4.5 seconds dang it 5.0 mustang with 440hp clock 4.5 seconds with the same weight as the porsche what the hellll

And that’s the colour the PR folk at Porsche chose to promote the Carrera 4 to their largest market?

So this thing has the same 0-60 of a manual 370z nismo and mustang bullitt 🙈

Street legal gokart.

4.5 0-60 isn’t correct!

$69,500 = $144,708.07 in 2018

Better than a wrx with 30 hp less

Starts at 1:26 The 0-60 time stated as 4.5 is BS. Car & Driver measured it at 5.1, and the quarter in 13.6. I trust them more than I trust these milquetoasts.

Great car, but the 993 was much better.

Front boot = Froot

No weight

You barely buy a truck for that price now smh

Nice but not fast .1993 Suzuki gsxr 1100 0 to60 2.9 second quarter miles..10.20 141 mph That's faster and way cheaper......

Ah... simpler times. Before every KZfaq jockey with a car fetish christened themselves auto journalists.

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Who would buy a gold/tan 911? Looks absolutely horrible.

Odd body design looks like Something out of Cartoon .