Scoring a Porsche 911 GT2 RS Is Possible, but Not Easy
Officially, the 911 GT2 RS isn’t a limited production car. But that doesn’t mean you’ll see them lined up at your local dealership.
It’s not like anyone ever thought that scoring a new Porsche 911 GT2 RS was going to be easy. After all, when you drop the successor to one of the fastest road-going Porsches ever, people are going to line up with cash in hand. But now that the GT2 RS has smashed Lamborghini’s lap record for production cars at the world-famous Nurburgring, getting your hands on one is only going to get more difficult.
Officially, the $293,200 911 GT2 RS is a car you can conceivably purchase on the showroom floor at your local Porsche dealership. After all, this is just a “normal” production car. It’s not officially a limited production vehicle, nor are there any predetermined numbers set to be built. But that doesn’t mean Porsche is going to crank out unlimited copies, of course.
“The 2018 911 GT2 RS will certainly be a low volume production car based on factory capacity,” Porsche spokesman Frank Wiesmann said. Wiesmann also noted that the 911 GT2 RS is still available to order, and that it will arrive at U.S. Porsche dealerships in early 2018. Wiesmann did not, of course, talk specifics in regards to production numbers.
Still, the tea leaves make it seem like this hyper-Porsche won’t exactly be easy to get your hands on. Rumors have swirled that Porsche only plans to produce around 1,000 911 GT2 RS models. And that they are already sold out. Heck, some buyers put their money down back at the car’s reveal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. So it stands to reason that demand will far exceed supply.
Regardless, if you want to buy the fastest road-going 911 to date, you’ll probably want to act now. And if you’ve got any long lost pals ranking high in Porsche’s corporate chain, you might want to set up a “business lunch” sometime soon, too.
