2002 Porsche 911

Carrera 4S Coupe

3.6L 3596CC H6 GAS DOHC Naturally Aspirated

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I am selling my 2002 Carerra 4S to purchase another Carrera 4S from a friend. This beautiful speed yellow 4S is not only beautiful, it is incredibly fast. First, this is a C4S, which is different than the standard Carrera. The C4S shares the same brakes, suspension and wide body flare as the Turbo. To some, its an even better looking car than the Turbo because the absence of the intake vents in the quarter panels, really shows the flow of the body. Second, unlike most Carreras on Ebay or anywhere else, particularly if you're looking at the 996s, most of them have the outdated turbo twists. While these silver wheels were nice in their day, nothing says you have a 10 year old car faster than the turbo wheels. This car has upgraded wheels which look similar to the ones of the current line of Porsches. Third, same thing applies to the sound system/navigation/bluetooth/ipod. This car has all of that already installed and ready to go. Last, there are other upgrades as follows: 1. FabTech Exhaust; 2. Alpine Navigation System with bluetooth, Sirrus/XM Radio, telephone connection, Ipod connection with two amplifiers and upgrades Morel speakers throughout; The upgrade was beautifully and professionally done and is second to none; 3. H& H racing springs have lowered the car by 3/4 inch; 4. Evolution Air Induction system gives the car a incredible throaty sound when you step on the gas, not to mention a boost in horse power and rev; 5. Short Shifter allows you to shift literally just using a flick of the wrist; 6. Upgraded Victor Equipment Innsbruck wheels (18") painted black with yellow pinstripe; 7. Gemballi yellow dials for the instrument panel (purchased but not yet installed). This car is so solid and beautiful its really ridiculous. But come see it for yourself. Don't take my word for it. Disclosures: Last year a young woman cut out in front of me and damaged the front bumper cover and cracked the headlight. I had all the work redone by Stuart's Paint & body in Dallas. Stuarts does all the painting and work for Boardwalk Porsche. I was very pleased with the work and I have all the receipts. Nothing structurally was damaged and everything, and I mean everything, that was scratched, dinged, bent was replaced. The car has had two previous owners. I am told the first owner owned a Porsche dealership in North CArolina (I believe). The second owner, whom I bought it from, lived in Florida and was in his early 50s and a Porsche enthusiast. He sold the car to me to purchase a Cayenne GTS and I was involved in that whole transaction. Long story. Anyway, ask any question you want. The previous owner told me the upgrades to the sound system, exhaust, short shift and air induction were upwards of $20k, but I don't have the paperwork to confirm it. Also, I have over 120 pictures here on FlickR: flickr.com/photos/97365393@N05/ You will see detailed pics of every place I could squeeze in a camera. Happy bidding. On Jun-06-13 at 08:37:28 PDT, seller added the following information: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S (MotorTrend Article): Porsche dials back the heat-exchanger look to 'bout perfect. Nothing focuses the mind like a glimpse of your own demise. Porsche is running full speed these days, away from its own near death of the early '90s when its U.S. sales plunged 88 percent, from a prosperity peak of 30,475 cars in 1986 to just 3728 in calendar 1993. The company's inspired sprint back from the brink now brings the fattest profits in the automaking world when expressed as a percent of its sales--13.3 percent, according to spokesman Anton Hunger, more than four times GM's rate. It also brings this new Carrera 4S. The old Carrera 4 coupe, new in 1999, would have been plenty good enough for a few more years. But that kind of thinking is what landed Porsche on the critical list. So now it energetically prepares new models before buyers ask. Known internally as the C4S, this new take on the all-wheel-drive 911 is a flat-out gorgeous car. The big news is the Turbo-style flared rear quarters, adding visual heft and 2.4 inches of width to what was the weak, receding end of the tapering body and simultaneously creating room for 295/30ZR-18s on 11-inch-wide rims. Leaving the Turbo's air-gulping scoops off the flanks (no intercooler to feed) lets us see the sculptural continuity of the shape. Wow! In the rear view, a band of red connects the taillights across the car's full width. Perfect! In front, you see Turbo-size air inlets. And look carefully at the spoiler's lower lip. It's trimmed higher across the center. This adjustment, along with a rear spoiler that deploys to a slightly different position than before, tailors the front-to-rear balance of aerodynamic lift and trims the coefficient of drag to 0.30, compared with 0.31 for the Turbo. The 911 now comes in eight variants, according to Porsche. Whereas the old Carrera 4 could be characterized as a 911 upgraded with all-wheel drive, the Carrera 4S amounts to a depressurized Turbo. It has Turbo wheels and tires, the large Turbo brakes, the Turbo's suspension, and the Turbo's all-wheel-drive machinery that delivers from 5 to 40 percent of driving torque to the front wheels, depending on conditions. The big mechanical difference between the two is a 100-hp deficit. The C4S is propelled by the 315-hp, 3.6-liter six from the normal 911. The one big visual difference: There's no wing on the C4S, just a self-rising spoiler similar, but not identical, to those on other 911s. Like the Turbo, the C4S rides 0.4 inch lower on its suspension. A new fiberglass engine cover offsets some of the poundage gained in new muscle, but weight still goes up 143 pounds versus that of the base Carrera 4 six-speed. Porsche unveiled the C4S in northern Italy under sunny skies and over blanket-smooth roads that made the extremely low-profile tires--almost no profile--seem a perfectly sensible idea. The Tiptronic continues its rocker-action shifter switches on the wheel spokes, and we found no surprises on this version. In the six-speed, clutch action is highly damped, rather dead-feeling, with abrupt takeup. That, in turn, causes the occasional clank from surprised components behind. The engine feels fluffy off idle, clears its throat at about 2000 rpm, perks up toward 3000, and turns seriously pushy in the mid-threes. Torque is up six percent, now peaking at 4250 rpm, 350 rpm lower than before. Porsche says the 0-to-62-mph time has dropped 0.1 second to 5.1 seconds. If you're worried that the 2002 upsizing from 3.4 to 3.6 liters has somehow pushed this engine off in a tractorish direction, forget it. The redline is still 7300, and the machinery goes there happily. Engine noise is mild and sweet, and mostly overwhelmed by the song of tires and gears when the going gets relaxed. At all times, the seatbacks give the most agreeable hugs. Porsche offers lots of opportunity to have these cars your way, as we were reminded by one interior decked out with bright yellow seatbelts to match the exterior ($530 extra) and more than a dozen pieces of carbon-fiber trim (three packages available in the U.S., priced at $865, $2080, and $6100). The U.S. share of the Carrera 4S first-year, 5000-car crop will be 1300 to 1400 cars, Porsche says, with a base price of $82,254 for the six-speed.