992 GT3

Chris Harris verkoopt zijn Porsche 911 GT3 Touring
Als je Chris Harris een beetje volgt op het internet, dan weet je dat hij er een leuke autocollectie op nahoudt. Hij steekt bijvoorbeeld niet onder stoelen of banken dat hij de trotse eigenaar is van een BMW M2 CS, een 2CV, een Lancia Delta HF Integrale en zelfs twee 911 GT3 Tourings. Twee GT3’s is iets te veel van het goede en daarom moet de nieuwste (een 992) de deur uit.De reden van de verkoop is best bijzonder: behalve dat hij geen ruimte heeft voor twee auto’s die min of meer hetzelfde doen, kan hij niet overweg met de bekerhouders in de nieuwe GT3. Plus de oude GT3 rijdt gewoon net even beter op de Engelse wegen. Ook heeft de oudere GT3 Touring meer emotionele waarde voor Harris. De nieuwe Porsche 911 GT3 Touring moet dus de deur uit. De gele houdt hij.

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R&T2022 Performance Car of the Year

Four days, 700 miles, countless arguments, one winner:

https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews/a38758411/2022-performance-car-of-the-year/

[color=#000000]Porsche’s GT3 emerged as the second finalist, surprising exactly no one. It arrived even sharper than the outgoing generation, now equipped with rarefied racing bits like a broad rear wing on swan-neck mounts and front suspension ripped right off the GT3 R race car. The increased downforce at both ends demands higher spring rates than the outgoing car, but somehow the GT3 still offers just enough compliance and comfort for road car duty.

Most important, Porsche preserved the GT3’s masterful 502-horse, 4.0-liter naturally aspirated flat-six and the six-speed it mates to. Among all modern road-car engine-and-gearbox combinations, this may be the most engaging. In every kink, through every sweeper, down every straight, the tach begs you to bang against its upper limits. Every moment in the GT3 feels like an excuse to chase the engine’s 9000-rpm redline, reveling in the metallic howl that fills the cabin and tingles your spine.

The 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 emerges from a spiritual imagination. Its heritage is a misty past. It’s born facing an uncertain future. It is both transcendent and instantaneous. It is the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit indwells as a car. It is the incarnate faith of the Church of What’s Happening Now. It’s so close to begotten and not made.[/color]It’s barely a 911. The other new 911s have turbos. This GT3 doesn’t. All the other 911s have a strut front suspension. The GT3 uses double wishbones. All-wheel drive? That’s for timid dilettantes. There are faster 911s, but this is the best. Porsche has set the GT3 apart, something for true believers. Drivers. Buyers who would drain their veins to pay in blood if Porsche demanded it.This is about inspiration and meaning and their substantiation. The GT3 draws on an ancient, deep faith that communion with machinery is in itself worthwhile and ennobling. It validates that faith with its avid character. And it’s as real and tangible as German steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber on a set of French tires.

[color=#000000]The catechism of GT3 is known and often memorized. The pure heart here is a 4.0-liter, 502-hp flat-six that wails to 9000 rpm. Electrics and modern turbo engines make consistent torque almost instantly, but the GT3 needs to reach 6100 rpm to find its peak. But turbo motors hum and electrics are silent, while the GT3’s engine makes joyous noises rising up unto God.

It’s an engine built for glory with a dry-sump oiling system, a relatively short 81.5-mm stroke, a 13.3:1 compression ratio, and an individual throttle for each cylinder. Blip the accelerator pedal and the first sound is those intake pipes gulping a slug of atmosphere. Then arises the distinct exhaust sound of an opposed six tuned to the baroque luster of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred organ music. It’s a car that leaps forward not just across pavement, but in progressive, mathematically precise, artistically structured octaves.

In the 21st century, there’s no avoiding computers. And the GT3 is loaded with devices controlling everything from valve timing to suspension behavior and all the usual nav-this and hear-that entertainment frippery. It’s all incidental. The bedrock of greatness here comes from the time-tested commandments of performance.

The first among those is weight reduction. There’s less sound deadening than in other 911s. No pretend rear seat, no motor to move the rear wing up or down. The trunk lid and front and rear fascias are lightweight plastic, the glass has been thinned to drop 10.4 pounds, the stainless steel exhaust system is practically anorexic, and those center-lock hubs mean 16 fewer fasteners holding the wheels to the car. Lightweight carbon-fiber bucket seats are available, and an optional car- bon roof knocks off a couple more pounds. In total, Porsche claims that this GT3, when equipped with the PDK transmission, weighs 3164 pounds. With the six-speed manual, it’s an even slimmer 3126 pounds. In contrast, the base 911 Carrera—rear drive like the GT3—has a stated curb weight of 3354 pounds. That’s a massive 228-pound difference.

Despite the SlimFast edict, the GT3 goes big where big is a commandment of its own. Like great tires that are also great big tires. As in 255/35R- 20 front and wicked wide 315/30R-21 rear Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R rubber. Same size as on the 640-hp, all-wheel-drive 911 Turbo S, but more radically adhesive. Behind them are giant 16.1-inch front and 15.4-inch rear carbon brakes that could have stopped the Romans from entering Judea.

Finally, the greatest commandment is simplicity. Computers are relentlessly logical, but lack imagination—at least in terms of the artistic, sometimes inchoate, often passionate and inexplicable ways that human imagination works. Yes, the GT3 generates numbers, but [/color]that’s not its appealwrapped up in one Porsche[color=#000000″> that allows us mortals to reach out beyond our temporary presence.

Yesterday is behind us. Tomorrow remains a mystery. The GT3 is the best of What’s Happening Now. And so, it is Road & Track’s 2022 Performance Car of the Year. Get in good with the Lord and He may bless you with one.[i]—John Pearley Huffman

956 Le Mans-racepak voor unieke Porsche 911 GT3

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Die agathe grey uitvoering is zijn vorige, de witte is zijn nieuw speeltje, en zo “odd” hoef je daar niet voor te zijn hoor, alhoewel ik die witter er wel over vind….