New hardcore Porsche 911 GT3 unveiled with 503bhp

When it arrives to hardcore general performance automobiles, several command a lot more notice from fanatics than a new Porsche 911 GT3 – and this is the most recent road racer from the German manufacturer.

Priced from £123,100, the new product has been made in near collaboration with Porsche’s motorsport division, having race automobile know-how to the road.

This involves the GT3’s new 503bhp naturally-aspirated four.-litre flat-6 engine, indicating this is the only 911 in the most recent 992-era line-up not to element turbocharging.

It will be available with a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch automated gearbox, sending its energy to the rear wheels only. Merged with launch control the GT3 will accelerate from -62mph in three.four seconds. A 6-speed handbook will also be available, supplying drivers an even higher connection with the automobile.

Key to the GT3’s improvement has been the go to the 992-era 911’s Modular Mid-Engine MMB platform. As a final result, all GT3s will be primarily based on Porsche’s widebody architecture, but regardless of this and the car’s much larger 20-inch entrance and 21-inch rear alloy wheels (which household greater brakes – steel as standard, carbon ceramic optional), the new GT3 only weighs 5kg a lot more than its predecessor in PDK variety, at 1,435kg.

Which is many thanks to substantial use of carbon fibre-reinforced plastic, which include for the bonnet, thinner glass for the home windows, cast wheels and a lightweight exhaust that saves 10kg.

Underneath the GT3’s new flared system there has been a considerable re-engineering of the know-how, with the automobile adopting a double wishbone entrance suspension format, whilst all other types in the 911’s 58-12 months heritage have featured MacPherson struts for the entrance suspension.

This tech transfer has appear from the 911 RSR race automobile, which takes advantage of a identical established-up, even though the GT3 has also inherited aerodynamic know-how from Porsche’s monitor competitors.

The GT3’s ‘swan neck’ rear wing mounts help a substantial spoiler for added downforce and superior-speed balance given the car’s 198mph best speed (199mph if you choose for the handbook gearbox). Porsche claims the GT3 provides “significantly higher ranges of downforce [than its predecessor] without the need of noticeably affecting the drag coefficient.”

Teamed with a substantial diffuser, the aerodynamic deal can be manually altered for monitor days, which is where by the GT3 really should seriously impress.

Jogging on optional Michelin Pilot Activity Cup 2 R tyres, Porsche’s examination driver Lars Kern lapped the Nurburgring in 6 minutes fifty nine.927 seconds, creating it a lot more than 17 seconds more rapidly than the earlier 911 GT3.

There is a good deal of monitor-focused tech on board, as the infotainment options a new monitor monitor. This lessens the facts on the electronic shows to the remaining and correct of the central analogue rev counter (marked all the way up to 10,000rpm, even though the motor only revs to 9,000).

In this manner it will show data a lot more essential for monitor driving, this kind of as tyre pressures, oil temperature and stress, moreover gas degree. There is also a motorsport-derived shift gentle technique.

Porsche has also added a good deal of personalisation choices so homeowners can tailor the spec of their automobile, which include even a lot more lightweight parts, this kind of as an uncovered carbon fibre roof and door mirror caps, as effectively as painted wheel rims.

Deliveries of the new 911 GT3 start in May well.

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