Porsche recently announced some specifics regarding the next 911 GT3, answering some important questions.
Yes, it’s fast: top speed is listed as 320 km/h while also lapping the Nurburgring in 6:59.927; that undercuts the previous 911 GT3 by more than 17 seconds.
But the biggest question answered: Yes, it comes with a six-speed manual transmission. Porsche will offer a PDK …
FINE. I'll take one.
The PDK is 1.5 seconds faster around the ring then the GT3 RS from the last generation on the same tires. That is a new level of speed for as "little" as these things cost.
It must drive the German engineers nuts to have to offer this pure performance car with a slower transmission just because people will not let that obsolete technology go :)
In reply to pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) :
Oh, why not make it two.........you can send one my way.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I don't think German engineers need any help to go nuts, witness the controls in any late model BMW.
Every time I drive one of the current GTs I think about what I'd have to give up to own one. If housing weren't on the list I'd have already pulled the trigger. If the new one lives up to the hype it might put me over the edge.
How much longer until NASA controls the throttle and brake applications while your Tesla goes around the ring in 2 min 35 seconds?
Sorry but my interest in lap times continues to decrease as driver intervention does as well.
Olemiss540 said:How much longer until NASA controls the throttle and brake applications while your Tesla goes around the ring in 2 min 35 seconds?
It runs out of batteries at kilometer 12. The supercharger station goes in next year, from what I hear. :P
Back on topic, this is just further proof we live in the golden age of automobiles. 9K rpm redline, a manual gearbox, fixed back seats as a factory option. I love it.
"Would you like the fast version of the GT3 or the slow one?"
Keith Tanner said:It must drive the German engineers nuts to have to offer this pure performance car with a slower transmission just because people will not let that obsolete technology go :)
It's the counterpoint to all those years they had to offer cars with a slower torque-converter autotragic trans just because people wanted them :)
Keith Tanner said:It must drive the German engineers nuts to have to offer this pure performance car with a slower transmission just because people will not let that obsolete technology go :)
After speaking with a few of them they are always flummoxed why the Americans buy the manuals with carbon brakes and store them in bubbles. Then the PDK owners buy them with steel or swap out for steel brakes and beat the piss out of them on the track.
I know one 911 owner that got what was supposed to be the last manual 911 made because Porsche re issued the manual box in cars a number of years later and the value of the car he got had dropped by almost 100k over night. This made a once garage queen in to just another driver 911 that he could afford and enjoy with out fear of putting mikes on.
I think there was an article in GRM about the last manual 911 and you should get one. Porsche will keep offering it and people will keep buying them hoping that it will be the last one made with a manual.
I don't think they make it cause it's slower, it's the driver engagement that makes them fun.
I think I'd save a huge chuck of change and go for a 991.1. They're getting enticingly close to 5 figures.
Personally, something about a 996 GT3 still tempts me--kicking it old school, I know.
If the new owner never drives the car on a track, they will buy a stick.
jr02518 said:If the new owner never drives the car on a track, they will buy a stick.
Wha?
I can translate this: When you are driving this car at anywhere near it's potential on a track, you will want to keep you hands, both of them, on the steering wheel. Leaving your fingers to shift the paddles.
Not having to loose you concentration on how stiff the cutch is, just a bonus.
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