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Soul
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I've been thinking about power-to-weight, here's what I have thrown together on the 996:
3.4 litre coupe 1,320kg 300 bhp, 227 bhp/ton*
3.4 litre cab 1,395kg 300 bhp, 215 bhp/ton*
3.6 litre coupe 1,345kg 320 bhp, 237 bhp/ton
3.6 litre cab 1,450kg 320 bhp, 220 bhp/ton
3.6 litre Targa 1,415kg 320 bhp, 226 bhp/ton
3.6 litre C4S, 1,470kg 320 bhp, 218 bhp/ton
3.6 litre C4S cab, 1,545kg, 320 bhp, 208 bhp/ton
3.6 litre turbo coupe 1,540 kg 420 bhp, 272 bhp/ton
3.6 litre turbo cab 1,615kg, 420 bhp, 255 bhp/ton
Top two are from the owners brochure/manual thing, the rest is from the Internets.
The C4S is widely loved- they go for a lot more money than the other non-turbo, non-GT models, yet they're (almost) joint slowest (my car is the slowest). But that's comparing a cabriolet with a coupe- if we were to compare the 3.4 litre C2 Cab against the C4S cab it'd be a different story, with the C4S taking the gong for least powerful 996.
For comparison my Volvo has 226 bhp/ton, so essentially the same as the first gen, 996.1 C2 Coupe.
EDITed to add other weights and power/weight. C4S cab (using unreliable data) is the slowest 996 in these narrow terms.