Porsche’s celebrated track-bred GT3 line has moved into a new generation with the long-awaited unveiling of the 992-series 911 GT3.
The new model, on sale now priced from £123,100, is described as “a highly athletic road car fit for high-performance driving on track balanced with the demands of everyday use”.
As with previous GT3 models, Porsche Motorsport has been heavily involved in the car’s development, this time in a bid to transfer “pure racing technology into a production model more consistently than ever before”.
To that end, the 992-gen GT3 features the traditionally high-revving naturally aspirated flat six in 4.0-litre form, with more power than ever. It also gets key aerodynamic and technological upgrades, the sum total of which has enabled the new model to set an impressive sub-7min lap time on the 12.9- mile Nürburgring Nordschleife. It also retains the option of a manual gearbox.
Styling and aero
The 911 GT3 benefits from extensive exterior upgrades aimed mostly at enhancing aerodynamics and cooling. The most significant addition is a new ‘swan neck’ rear wing, adapted from that of the 911 RSR racing car. It’s manually adjustable and teamed with a prominent diffuser that can also be adjusted into a ‘Performance’ position to increase downforce. Porsche claims this mode is reserved “strictly for outings on the circuit”.
Other visible changes over a standard 992-gen Porsche 911 include a deeper front bumper with cleaner sides for further improved aero and a large central intake, plus further airflow-enhancing ‘nostril’ vents on the front bonnet. One GT3-specific optional extra is a roof made of exposed carbonfibre.
A number of customisation options via the Porsche Exclusive range are available, including carbon mirror tops, darkened headlights, a redesigned rear light cluster and Guards Red or Shark Blue paintwork for the edge of the wheel rims.
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All this for just a six figure sum?!, worth every penny?, fast enough for the main road?, if you can say yes to these, who needs HyperCard with near 300mph top speed?,and nought to sixty faster than a Starship?
Lovely....but practically 'unobtanium' even for those that can buy or lease it. Simply because if you've not bought endless rounds of Cayennes and Panams over the years - and did your OPC a favour in buying the 718 they couldn't shift - then you've no chance.
Unless you want to 'invest' in another man's 'cast-off' with ludicrous 'overs' in a few months after launch....it just turns proper enthusiasts off. It's all just 'influencer click-bait' these days. Frankly, this stuff bores me now.
Covid blues influencing your perspective? Its making all of us irritable. While I don't disagree with the 'unobtainium' comments, so it has always been so - thinking back to tales of my old man's woes of trying to purchase an E-Type Roadster while his brother, a frequent Jag buyer at the time, was facilitated with ease...
E- Type ? I didn't know Autocar readers were still alive that hail from those days ;-)
I suspect whatever happened in days of yore it's fully on steroids these days. This is all post-Lehmann Bros madness - where money's cheap and assets are (consequently) over-priced. £ 130 K all in with options on a manual 992 GT3 is good value. But when will you be seeing a price within 15% of that in the next 12 months on the used market ? Justement. Reality rather than your imputed "irritability", alas & alack.....