When announced on 12 February 1993, the Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 was to be the highest-performance regular production offering they had ever produced for sale in North America; this single-turbo, rear-engine, rear-drive, widebody 911 produced an impressive 355 horsepower and 384 pound-feet of torque.

Porsche achieved these staggering numbers by swapping out the 3.3-liter engine from the previous Turbo model with a modified 3.6-liter engine from the recent line of 911 Carreras.

In total, fewer than 1,500 Turbo 3.6 examples were produced for the world, with less than a third of those reaching North American streets.

In September of 1993, well into the production run of the Turbo, Porsche—together with their Exclusive department—decided to release an even more powerful “S” variant.

Rare by design, Porsche estimated they would build fewer than 100 of these 3.6-liter Turbo S models for the world.

Most of these “S” models were to have the new and improved “Flachbau,” or Flatnose, Version I...