Amazing how that tiptronic eventually turned into that magnificent PDK Porsche offers

Nearing the pinnacle of the air-cooled 911s. But I had no idea the tiptronic was available in 1990.

Wow everything all awesome in this video

These cost almost as much now as they did new, pretty amazing.

Option that Americans want the most? You mean like after they started importing Tiptronics how the vast majority of 911s sold continued to be equipped with manual transmissions? I think you're confusing "Americans" with "Buick buyers".

5:50 nice wooden tennis racquets! Still such a clean 911 design, timeless.

The beginning of the end for the manual transmission...

Love the brake squeel at the end. Makes me glad I didn't spring for the anti squeel caliper cups.

So here is where it all started for exotics, sports and super-cars to adopt automatics. Then the rest of the segments followed. Pity...

There Is No Substitute

Love the radio presets... DC101 and WHFS!

Looks to be equipped with some sort of USA pot-hole suspension as well.

Shut it off at 1:08 when I heard it was an auto. Thanks John.

Comes with extra large cup holders for acomidating macdonalds king size coke

Sick jacket

I love it!

Great car indeed , same price as the NSX in 1990 ! I love German cars , but , for the same price ,I would go with the Acura.

I so wish the gear selector for my tiptronic was down by the shift lever. It is on the steering wheel and not a paddle so I find it somewhat unusable.

Motorweek is one big Porsche commercial

Best looking of the 911's. If this had been water cooled, they would have been that much farther ahead of the game.

love this car

Clownshow. Some of this was dubbed straight from the previous Carrera 4 review. Complaining about the seats, then showing that the car actually has sport seats.

9 to the 1 to the 1..

Can you please boost the volume of these flashback videos?

After breaking: what is the driver telling the guy running up hysterically with a notepad? Couldn't it wait?

when i started watching californication i laughed as david duchovny's beat-up 911 cab was a automatic

30 years later you could buy a Porsche 718 base model for about the same price, $60k. While it doesn't have the iconic badge of the 911, the 718 2.0 liter turbo outperforms it's ancestor by a wide margin.

Automatic in a 911 RALF!!

I can't believe a company like Porsche put the tiptronic on backwards

Beautiful car this Carrera 2. However, the automatic transmission seems like more of luxury car option than sports car option. The 911 used to be sports car. But then it has leather interior option and optional floor mats, so maybe it's a luxury car, too. I don't know.

1990: “A real 911 doesn’t have an auto. transmission.” 2023: “A real 911 doesn’t have electric gauges.”

They lost me at tiptronic. GET THIS SHIT OFF MY SCREEN.

leave the tip, take the cannoli

I need Motorola Car Telephone!

Wood tennis rackets in 1990? Really?

964 Carrera 2.

Tiptronic Pizza

Porsche.😮

Wow, a woman!

Even with double-clutch gearboxes, an automatic in a 911 is just wrong. I never drove a 964 but I did get to drive the tiptronic in both a 996 and a 997.1 and it pretty much ruins the character of the car, IMO. The 997.2's PDK was a lot better, but I would still pick a manual every day of the week and twice on sundays. The 911's tiptronic felt like a (slightly faster) traditional box - because it is one. In my humble view, unless you're disabled, you should never get a 911 with an auto. Or, perhaps, if this is the sort of transmission you absolutely want or need, perhaps you shouldn't be driving a 911. Don't get me wrong: Automatics are fine in certain types of cars, but in a sports-car? We're pretty far removed from the task of driving these days as it is, thanks to things like electric power-steering, noise insulation, etc ... Which is fine in an S-class, but I wouldn't want to "give away" the level of control and involvement a manual offers in anything with sporting ambitions. Heck, I never even considered VW's DSG when I ordered both my Mk V and Mk VI Golf GTIs - and back then, those new boxes were all the rage.

Thank goodness I don't make any of the laws in this country because if I did, earning a driver's license would be impossible without demonstrating proof that the driver seeking to earn a license can properly drive as stick and work a clutch smoothly. It pains me to see just how slack and scared the majority of people are in the US. It's no wonder why some of the coolest cars were never historically offered in this country. Sigh... Pathetic.

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Oh okay so there is a title for me...I'm a Porschephile!!😂

Tiptronic, the worst invention in Porsche history. Change my mind. 😁

a tiptronic 911 would be a good candidate for conversion to electric. "enthusiasts" would flip out if you did that to a manual car.

0-60 in 6.7 seconds? Seems slow, even by 1990 sports car standards.

You lost me at tiptronic....boring.

nope.

Disgusting!

Slow!

Ugly and slow ,,prefere an nsx 90 from japan

964 so much more aggressively styled than the bland as shit 993.

Oh darn... the crappiest automatic gearbox ever... Tiptronic it is. Also, I never got to like the 964's styling, especially that front.