Carrera
2
With the Carrera
4 being considered a "step-too-far" for many 911 purists at
the time - and still so 20 years later - Porsche introduced the rear wheel
drive variant, the Carrera 2, a year later for the 1990 Model Year.
Coincident with the introduction
of the Carrera 2 the factory introduced some familiar body styles in the
Cabriolet and Targa to accompany the Coupe. Some technical changes were
introduced at the same time to address issues with transmission harshness
which consisted of the adoption of a 30lb dual mass flywheel (manufactured
by Freudenberg) coupled to the G50 five speed manual gearbox which had
been carried over from the 1989 3.2 Carrera.
The dual mass flywheel design
was also carried over to the Carrera 4 of that year but sufferered significant
failures in the early years and was replaced in the Carrera 2 during the
1992 Model Year with a unit manufactured by LUK. The Carrera 4 continued
to use a modified Freudenberg unit until the end of the model life in
1994 although the later LUK unit was approved for use in the C4.
Additionally, the Carrera 2
was offered with the optional A50 4-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. This transmission
was never offered on the 4WD Carrera 4. |