Is the Targa making a comeback? I appreciate many of you — especially readers in possession of a semi-open-top Porsche — will be thinking the Targa body style never went away. Indeed, this distinctive ‘rollover hoop’ design has been a mainstay of the 911 line-up since the mid-1960s, almost two decades before a cabriolet was introduced to the range. The thing is, though, Targas have rarely been the first choice of 911 buyers. Often, purchase of a Targa is driven by cost, where the equivalent coupe is double the price. One only has to look at Porsche’s attempts to disguise the Targa as a tin-top from 993 production (until dramatic return of the iconic polished safety bar with the 991-generation 911) to understand how Targa styling has long been the…
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Classic Porsche (Digital) - 1 Issue, May - June 2024