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I was able to attend the NY show yesterday and since some have asked for pics, I will post some. I believe I will get an allocation (Canada) and was hoping for a PTS, but I must say the Hertitage was striking in person.
I finally was able to check the car out in person and I’m a bit underwhelmed. The concept was a lot more exciting visually even down to the wheels. At this price point there’s a few other cars I’d rather have. Probably will be an amazing car but I think priced $100k too high.
It would dilute the GT3 too much to make an actual GT3 convertible. And Porsche would rather sell the Speedster for insane money.
Then this is...?
Not the Speedster, that's for sure.
Don't see how a cabriolet is diluting the GT3 'brand' any more than Touring or Speedster variants. You'd have to go back a long way in Porsches history for any motorsport connection of a Speedster/Spyder body style and at that point in time (and decades later) any of the road cars could easily be entered in races and many Porsche race cars were still road legal...
Plus I maintain that the GT3 engine architectures would've been a natural fit for the Carrera (but that wasn't to be for a variety of reasons). They're good engines that absolutely deserve to be in any 911, cabriolet or not. Don't care about this artificial exclusivity. And a certain motorsport connection should be in any 911.
Don't see how a cabriolet is diluting the GT3 'brand' any more than Touring or Speedster variants. You'd have to go back a long way in Porsches history for any motorsport connection of a Speedster/Spyder body style and at that point in time (and decades later) any of the road cars could easily be entered in races and many Porsche race cars were still road legal...
Plus I maintain that the GT3 engine architectures would've been a natural fit for the Carrera (but that wasn't to be for a variety of reasons). They're good engines that absolutely deserve to be in any 911, cabriolet or not. Don't care about this artificial exclusivity. And a certain motorsport connection should be in any 911.
those are 991.2 GT3 bodies, not 992. Those cars were likely test mules for the speedster.
Cabriolet absolutely dilutes the GT3 brand. There’s a reason Porsche never allowed sport PASM on any 991 convertible.
Porsche has the hard edge race cars like the GT3, RS and the softer daily driver ones like a cabriolet.
I agree with Drifting. Adding a cab to the GT3 lineup would go against the GT3 ethos of keeping the car lightweight. Taking the wing off the car (as in the Touring) maintains the GT3 ethos of a lightweight track-focused car that is street legal and daily drivable. I'm not saying that Porsche won't go ahead and make a GT3 cab anyway, but I agree with Drifting that it would dilute the GT3 "brand."
I would greatly prefer a 991.2 GT3 cab over a speedster. Porsche should go to offering body styles with whatever engine and trans you want. Narrow body with a 2RS engine and 6MT. Wide body cab with a GT3 engine and PDK. Turbo body with the base 3.0T.
Agreed, as does the Speedster and the upcoming 982 Spyder if it, as some believe, turns out to be a GT car. Could be a slippery slope GT is heading down with soft top cars. Hate to see it.
There’s a reason Porsche never allowed sport PASM on any 991 convertible.
True for any 991 convertible. But for the 992, it is a different story....and one
that we will all have to start getting use to 'rethinking' re: what 'rigidity' future
911 cabriolets or Boxster Spyders models might possess vs coupes!
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Ferrari was also able to achieve similar torsional rigidity in the current 488 Spider as in the 488 Gran Turismo Berlinetta.
That is something Maranello didn't claim for the 458 Spider vs its 458 Italia enclosed counterpart.
04-27-2019, 03:45 PM
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