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For many years the underappreciated 911, the first of the water-cooled models, is now very much on the way up – and with very good reason, too.

After all, it was one of the most-focused and enjoyable driver’s cars of the late 1990s and early 2000s, irrespective of the fact that it shared its distinctive ‘fried egg’ headlamps and much of its front suspension with the Boxster.

Which, let’s face it, is hardly a bad thing… While some 911 purists sniff at the water-cooled engine and shared parts, other fans of the marque recognise it for what it really was – Porsche bringing the 911 bang up-to-date, while maintaining a number of key elements of its essential DNA, namely the iconic coupe-body profile, the horizontally-opposed six-cylinder e...