Porsche 911 GT3 RS

摘要

On first acquaintance, it's just possible you'll conclude that Porsche has muffed the new 911 GT3 RS. You'll drive it and drive it fast and wonder whether all the boasts about what it offers over and above a 911GT3 add up to more than a hill of beans and a 30 grand bill. Only when you drive it as fast as you can make it go will it become clear that this is, in fact, the purest realisation of what Porsche estimates a sports car to be. The new GT3 RS is not a car made faster by the addition of turbos or hybrid drives, but through the deletion of weight and provision of more power via the delightfully back-to-basics formula of shovelling a bigger engine into the rear. So today's GT3 RS displaces precisely the same 3996cc and produces an identical 493bhp at an indistinguishable 8250rpm as the last 997-based GT3 RS, despite their engines being unrelated. The difference is that whereas the 997-generation GT3 RS 4.0 was a limited-edition special, this 991-derived machine is part of the standard model line-up. No 911 has ever been fitted with a bigger engine.