The Porsche 911 model series (pronounced Nine Eleven or in German: Neunelf) is a family of German two-door, high performance rear-engine sports cars, introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany.
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Probably nothing, the Porsche engineers just used the duct tape to make a makeshift sunvisor. The test car probably doesn't have a roof-liner because of the roll-cage.
kingjr9000
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Can anyone translate?
kingjr9000
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heres the main intro as best I could:
So brutal was not yet an elf. Speedfreaks here comes your new idol: This gulgeite light-bodied ride with its 700ps almost everything in ground and ground, which as an allegedly supersportwagen blocks the overtaking track
So brutal was not yet an elf. Speedfreaks here comes your new idol: This gulgeite light-bodied ride with its 700ps almost everything in ground and ground, which as an allegedly supersportwagen blocks the overtaking track
kingjr9000
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New Porsche GT2 RS prototype ride review
We take a ride in the ‘brutal’ Porsche 911 GT2 RS ahead of the sports car’s full arrival later this year
Verdict
Promising mad looks and even crazier performance, the GT2 RS satisfies a unique clientele for whom enough is never enough. The final showroom car will be even more intense than the prototype we rode in. And it’s a fitting, riotous, flagship to Porsche’s 911 line-up.
t’s hardly the best-kept secret, but Porsche can no longer deny the existence of its forthcoming 911 GT2 RS. We’ve sat alongside GT man Andreas Preuninger in a prototype car, ahead of its launch later this year. It promises to be the most extreme 911 ever, both in looks and performance.
To achieve that, Porsche’s wildest 911 again crosses boundaries. It mixes elements of the purist’s GT3 with the pugilistic Turbo. The result is, in Preuninger’s words “brutal power, that’s a joy to drive on track because it’s so precise and so agile”.
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A conservative 641bhp and 750Nm are the numbers Porsche is willing to reveal prior to the car’s actual homologation later this year, but in the tradition of the GT2 RS, the final numbers are certain to be a good deal more.
Porsche engineers have taken the engine from a Turbo S and slotted it, as usual, in the back. Only now there’s a new water-cooled intercooler, which, allied to new turbos, greater boost and revised internals, allows the GT2 RS its massive output. Power is channeled to the rear wheels via a seven-speed PDK gearbox and electronically controlled locking differential.
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Despite traction being slightly limited, it’s likely to match the 2.9 seconds of the Turbo S from 0-62mph. It feels every bit as fast as that from the passenger seat, too. It’ll reach 124mph in less than nine seconds, while the top speed is expected to hit 211mph. The way it reached 180mph on the German autobahn was little short of extraordinary, with the engine’s huge mid-range performance and the speed of the PDK’s shift evident from the passenger seat.
It’s the GT department’s aim – and a necessity for the car’s flagship status – for the GT2 to beat all its internal competition. External rivals should also keep an eye on their mirrors, as the RS is gunning for them, too. Its rose-jointed, upside-down mounted race dampers and springs are essentially from the 911 Cup Car, but it rides really well on (admittedly smooth) German tarmac.
There’s much the same downforce as on the GT3 RS, only it’ll be generated by a different aero package. A huge rear wing dominates the back, with the front getting a pouting splitter and massive intakes. The front wing vents will remain, only they’ll feature GT2-specific vanes. The brake-cooling ducts on the bonnet will make it to production, too. Reduced mass plays its part, with the GT2 RS certain to weigh less than 1,500kg.
Choose the optional Weissach package and that drops by another 30kg, while the huge magnesium wheels account for 12kg. Carbon fibre anti-roll bars and other suspension elements shave more than 5kg from the weight, and a titanium roll cage drops another 7kg. The standard, lightweight, magnesium roof borrowed from the GT3 RS is replaced by a carbon fibre one with the Weissach pack.
The GT2 RS is set to continue where its predecessor left off. A mad-looking, bonkers performance car, the production version should be very special indeed.
New Porsche GT2 RS prototype ride review
We take a ride in the ‘brutal’ Porsche 911 GT2 RS ahead of the sports car’s full arrival later this year
Verdict
Promising mad looks and even crazier performance, the GT2 RS satisfies a unique clientele for whom enough is never enough. The final showroom car will be even more intense than the prototype we rode in. And it’s a fitting, riotous, flagship to Porsche’s 911 line-up.
t’s hardly the best-kept secret, but Porsche can no longer deny the existence of its forthcoming 911 GT2 RS. We’ve sat alongside GT man Andreas Preuninger in a prototype car, ahead of its launch later this year. It promises to be the most extreme 911 ever, both in looks and performance.
To achieve that, Porsche’s wildest 911 again crosses boundaries. It mixes elements of the purist’s GT3 with the pugilistic Turbo. The result is, in Preuninger’s words “brutal power, that’s a joy to drive on track because it’s so precise and so agile”.
• Best sports cars on sale
A conservative 641bhp and 750Nm are the numbers Porsche is willing to reveal prior to the car’s actual homologation later this year, but in the tradition of the GT2 RS, the final numbers are certain to be a good deal more.
Porsche engineers have taken the engine from a Turbo S and slotted it, as usual, in the back. Only now there’s a new water-cooled intercooler, which, allied to new turbos, greater boost and revised internals, allows the GT2 RS its massive output. Power is channeled to the rear wheels via a seven-speed PDK gearbox and electronically controlled locking differential.
• Best track day cars on the market
Despite traction being slightly limited, it’s likely to match the 2.9 seconds of the Turbo S from 0-62mph. It feels every bit as fast as that from the passenger seat, too. It’ll reach 124mph in less than nine seconds, while the top speed is expected to hit 211mph. The way it reached 180mph on the German autobahn was little short of extraordinary, with the engine’s huge mid-range performance and the speed of the PDK’s shift evident from the passenger seat.
It’s the GT department’s aim – and a necessity for the car’s flagship status – for the GT2 to beat all its internal competition. External rivals should also keep an eye on their mirrors, as the RS is gunning for them, too. Its rose-jointed, upside-down mounted race dampers and springs are essentially from the 911 Cup Car, but it rides really well on (admittedly smooth) German tarmac.
There’s much the same downforce as on the GT3 RS, only it’ll be generated by a different aero package. A huge rear wing dominates the back, with the front getting a pouting splitter and massive intakes. The front wing vents will remain, only they’ll feature GT2-specific vanes. The brake-cooling ducts on the bonnet will make it to production, too. Reduced mass plays its part, with the GT2 RS certain to weigh less than 1,500kg.
Choose the optional Weissach package and that drops by another 30kg, while the huge magnesium wheels account for 12kg. Carbon fibre anti-roll bars and other suspension elements shave more than 5kg from the weight, and a titanium roll cage drops another 7kg. The standard, lightweight, magnesium roof borrowed from the GT3 RS is replaced by a carbon fibre one with the Weissach pack.
The GT2 RS is set to continue where its predecessor left off. A mad-looking, bonkers performance car, the production version should be very special indeed.
New Porsche GT2 RS prototype ride review
kingjr9000
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We ride in the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS
The new 911 GT2 RS has to be Porsche’s worst kept secret. But not a lot can prepare you for a passenger seat blast in the maddest and most-powerful 911 ever built.
This is what we know: the new GT2 RS will have ‘in excess’ of 650bhp and 553lb ft, via a heavily revised 3.8-litre twin turbo flat-six pinched from the 911 Turbo S.
There’s water-injection intercooling, new internals, unique turbochargers, and more. It bins the Turbo’s four-wheel drive (driving only its rear wheels), adds a seven-speed PDK gearbox, and raids the GT department’s parts bin for all the best bits. It also adds some new ones for good measure.
Note those headline power and torque figures; Porsche is currently willing to communicate they are conservative. Each comes with the ‘greater than’ symbol, suggesting the final figures will be significantly more. Just think about that for a second.
It will, in the words of GT department boss Andreas Preuninger, shout “I’m the alpha animal”. That’s very deliberate, for the GT2 RS is a 911 that appeals to a rather different customer than other models. The prototype here might look like a GT3 RS with cladding, because that’s what it is. But visually the production car promises to be even more unhinged, with a huge front splitter, massive rear diffuser and plenty of exposed carbonfibre.
That’ll include two NACA ducts on the bonnet that feed air to cool the standard carbon-ceramic brakes. Choose the optional Weissach pack (like a Porsche 918 Spyder gets) and you’ll add titanium, magnesium and more carbon into the mix, and shave 30kg off the anticipated sub-1,500kg kerb weight.
Preuninger says the GT2 RS “is all about competition”. By that, he means pummeling them into submission around that track. To better its rivals around the Nürburgring it’s got rose-jointed suspension, with upside down race dampers and spring rates equal to a Cup car’s ‘Ring setup. Even so, it rides with remarkable civility on the roads around Weissach.
And that lap time? It’ll need to start with a six if it’s to better the Lamborghini Huracan Performante’s recent efforts, which given the 911 GT3’s 7min 12sec, with a paltry 493bhp, isn’t so difficult to believe.
Certainly not from where we’re sitting. The 3.8-litre engine’s force is brutal, and we mean 918 Spyder ferocious. Forget any talk that turbocharging robs an engine of sound, too. Sat in the red Alcantara interior (a reverential, eye-straining nod to the design optioned by 60 per cent of previous-gen 997 GT2 RS owners) you’re not just physically stimulated by the engine’s ferocity and the chassis’ grip, but aurally, too.
The expectation is a top speed in excess of 211mph, a 0-62mph under three seconds and 0-124mph comfortably under nine. Yet – says Preuninger – it’ll have all the agility and poise of a 911 GT3 RS.
Job well done then? We’ll only know for sure when we’ve actually driven it. But on early evidence from the wrong seat, it looks to be a job very well done.
We ride in the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS
The new 911 GT2 RS has to be Porsche’s worst kept secret. But not a lot can prepare you for a passenger seat blast in the maddest and most-powerful 911 ever built.
This is what we know: the new GT2 RS will have ‘in excess’ of 650bhp and 553lb ft, via a heavily revised 3.8-litre twin turbo flat-six pinched from the 911 Turbo S.
There’s water-injection intercooling, new internals, unique turbochargers, and more. It bins the Turbo’s four-wheel drive (driving only its rear wheels), adds a seven-speed PDK gearbox, and raids the GT department’s parts bin for all the best bits. It also adds some new ones for good measure.
Note those headline power and torque figures; Porsche is currently willing to communicate they are conservative. Each comes with the ‘greater than’ symbol, suggesting the final figures will be significantly more. Just think about that for a second.
It will, in the words of GT department boss Andreas Preuninger, shout “I’m the alpha animal”. That’s very deliberate, for the GT2 RS is a 911 that appeals to a rather different customer than other models. The prototype here might look like a GT3 RS with cladding, because that’s what it is. But visually the production car promises to be even more unhinged, with a huge front splitter, massive rear diffuser and plenty of exposed carbonfibre.
That’ll include two NACA ducts on the bonnet that feed air to cool the standard carbon-ceramic brakes. Choose the optional Weissach pack (like a Porsche 918 Spyder gets) and you’ll add titanium, magnesium and more carbon into the mix, and shave 30kg off the anticipated sub-1,500kg kerb weight.
Preuninger says the GT2 RS “is all about competition”. By that, he means pummeling them into submission around that track. To better its rivals around the Nürburgring it’s got rose-jointed suspension, with upside down race dampers and spring rates equal to a Cup car’s ‘Ring setup. Even so, it rides with remarkable civility on the roads around Weissach.
And that lap time? It’ll need to start with a six if it’s to better the Lamborghini Huracan Performante’s recent efforts, which given the 911 GT3’s 7min 12sec, with a paltry 493bhp, isn’t so difficult to believe.
Certainly not from where we’re sitting. The 3.8-litre engine’s force is brutal, and we mean 918 Spyder ferocious. Forget any talk that turbocharging robs an engine of sound, too. Sat in the red Alcantara interior (a reverential, eye-straining nod to the design optioned by 60 per cent of previous-gen 997 GT2 RS owners) you’re not just physically stimulated by the engine’s ferocity and the chassis’ grip, but aurally, too.
The expectation is a top speed in excess of 211mph, a 0-62mph under three seconds and 0-124mph comfortably under nine. Yet – says Preuninger – it’ll have all the agility and poise of a 911 GT3 RS.
Job well done then? We’ll only know for sure when we’ve actually driven it. But on early evidence from the wrong seat, it looks to be a job very well done.
We ride in the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS
tristatez28lt1
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DeDe
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"It's brutal."
DeDe
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AMuS calls it RS in their short video of the car, also there's a sticker on the rev counter to hide the model name, but the "S" from RS is still visible a bit.
tristatez28lt1
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It'll be called the GT2 RS.
- 1000 limited production
- about 260.000 Euro
- about 700 hp, 750 Nm+
- 0-200 km/h in less than 9 sec
- most of the suspension tech is straight from the cup car
- The points of suspension and the drive are now cast iron
- Matt black cage is standard
- weight: less than 1500kg
- Weissach version: lighter by 20 to 30 kg
- four wheel steering
Autobild summary: Fastest, wildest, most powerful, craziest 911 ever.
Porsche 911 GT2 RS (2017): Mitfahrt - Mehr Elfer geht nicht!
- 1000 limited production
- about 260.000 Euro
- about 700 hp, 750 Nm+
- 0-200 km/h in less than 9 sec
- most of the suspension tech is straight from the cup car
- The points of suspension and the drive are now cast iron
- Matt black cage is standard
- weight: less than 1500kg
- Weissach version: lighter by 20 to 30 kg
- four wheel steering
Autobild summary: Fastest, wildest, most powerful, craziest 911 ever.
Porsche 911 GT2 RS (2017): Mitfahrt - Mehr Elfer geht nicht!
Sunny
Premium
R&T says will have water injection ala M4 GTS.
The New Porsche 911 GT2 RS Will Make More than 640 HP Thanks to Water Injection
The New Porsche 911 GT2 RS Will Make More than 640 HP Thanks to Water Injection
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Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, is a German automobile manufacturer
specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs, and sedans,
headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Owned by
Volkswagen AG, it was founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche.
In its early days, Porsche was contracted by the German government
to create a vehicle for the masses, which later became the Volkswagen
Beetle. In the late 1940s, Ferdinand's son Ferry Porsche began
building his car, which would result in the Porsche 356.
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