Carrera is an evocative word—Spanish for "race." Once upon a time, Porsche reserved that term for its most hardcore sports cars, ones that required specialist knowledge to operate. Famously, the Fuhrmann four-cam in the original 1955 Porsche 356A Carrera was essentially a race engine that would shake itself to death thanks to an astronomical (for 1955) 7,000 rpm redline. Legend says a complete rebuild took around 150 hours of labor. Truly metal as fuck.
