When I was shopping a year and a half ago, I was oblivious to the distinction between NB and S...I just wanted the newest 993 I could find with the right color combination, yet with enough mileage on it so I could still sorta afford it. The fact that the '98's coupes were S's by default was a serendipitous discovery made after the fact - thanks to my education here at RL!

If I had found my color combo in a NB, would I have yearned for an S? I dunno, maybe, but certainly not for performance reasons. Perhaps the esthetics were subliminally influencing me to hold out for an S - I did shop over a year, after all, before pulling the trigger.

Buy what strikes you, I'd say, be it NB or S

 

So is a 1998 Targa a wide body if only S's were made in 1998?

 

No. Who told you only S's were made in 1998?

 

See post #19 in this thread. I don't think that statement is correct. I think all cabs and targas were narrow bodied. I would like to know if there were any Targa S's produced in 1998.

 

No such thing as a 993 Targa S, i.e. no wide body Targas. The 997 has it though...

 

All Coupes in 98 were WideBodies.The 98 C2S's were the same price as if they were a Narrow Body.They were ending production of the Air Cooled and had a bunch of Turbo Bodies they needed to use up.This was the first time you could buy a base priced S for the same as if it were a narrow body.I believe base price was 63,500