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The Porsche technicians came up with something new again for the new Porsche 911 GT3, the link between street car and racing car: for the first time the sound that each of the 6 cylinders makes in the exhaust beat is brought together in a joint chamber. This new belling acoustic that is produced by the newly developed three-step naturally-aspirated engine is according to former rally champion Walter Roehrl "something very special. It doesn't sound ordinary, just beautiful!"
We listened to the concertmaster playing his instrument with devotion at the Nuerburgring-Nordschleife: From piano in idle to crescendo at 5400 rpm when the first accoustic valve opens to the hair raising fortissimo when the second one is released. Ad he hasn't even started driving.
In 7:42 minutes Roehrl completes the North circuit at Nuerburgring in the new GT3: 8 seconds faster than with the GT3 forerunner and that says enough about the work of the Porsche engineers. A stronger motor, bigger brakes, newly developed tires, better aerodynamics and economy of weight. All that, says Walter Roehrl, makes the GT3 even more sportive. Especially if you take the accessory ceramic brakes (10.352 euros in Austria) and the sport package (bucket seats with six point safety belts, rollover protection bars inclusively fire extinguisher for 5586 euros in Austria). Porsche's cross between the street and the racing track (GT series) also got more comfortable and less uncompromising: air conditioning and traction control are now built in serially.
Roehrl: "That is nothing for me, also the CST, as good as it may be. Whoever purchases such a racing car should also bear some personal responsibility."
In spite of the high-tech-slimming with aluminium hood and titan cennction rod the vehicle is 15 kilograms heavier than the forerunner. But because 95% of the illustrious customers (40% of the cars are imported to the USA where one can't, as is generally known, really accelerate) ordered the optional airco when purchasing the mentioned forerunner, the 900 intended vehicles were equipped with this feature serially. And it almost seems as if the cupholders on the passenger's side of our test car were rattling out of protest whilst opening the first resonance valve.
But atleast little Austrias GT3 fans don't really seem to care because 17 of the vehicles that are available in Austria this year have already been sold (piece price: 131.800 euros in Austria). The remaining three probably won't take long to be sold either.
In the standard version: active, from hard to super-hard adjustable chassis (PASM), ABS, ABD, ASR, 6 airbags, CD player with radio, alcantara leather, a short six speed manual gear box with upshift light when reaching the maximum rev of 8400/min.
Engine
Six-cylinder watercooled boxer motor with dry sump lubrication for racing, four valves per cylinder with variable valve timing, multi-point fuel injection, 3600 ccm, 305 kW/ 415 hp at 7600/min, 405 Nm at 5500/min, 310 km/h, acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 4,3 seconds, acceleration from 0 to 200 km/h in 13,5 seconds, air drag coefficient 0,29. Fuel consumption: urban 20 litres/100km, extra urban 9 litres/100km, mixed 13 litres/100km, 98 octane super plus.
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