The 996 Turbo runs a fundamentally different engine from the rest of the 996 line: the M96/70 Mezger, lineage-traced to the 956/962/959 race program. It won Le Mans, was raced by Porsche Motorsports continuously through 2015, and is widely held to be among the most durable production engines Porsche has built — Andreas Preuninger's 'we have not yet found a way to break the Mezger' is the canonical quote. …
996 Turbo Mezger M96/70 — the Group-C race engine in a road car
Porsche 911 (996) · drivetrain