No one here sees the 991 GT2RS as a test balloon for TT GT cars? Lol.

We (most of us) took the TT bait hook line and sinker.

Really? Don’t think its ever been 20hp for GT3 RS before. It’s been 0, 0, 15, 25, and now 20 (not including 997 RS 4.0 which was 65).

The only other time I remember 20hp from RS was 1973 (210hp vs 190hp in 911S which was 11% and lots more torque compared to current 4%).

Sorry was just countering any suggestion that because the RS ‘only’ had a bump of 20hp that the NA motor had no more to give.

I think the 992 will be turbo, but not because the 4.0 NA has no more to give.

“According to the British magazine's intel with direct links to Porsche Motorsport, the new GT3 will have somewhere in the region of 513 horsepower (382 kilowatts), making it equally powerful to today's 911 GT3 RS ... the torque will be significantly increased to approximately 524 pound-feet (710 Newton-meters).”

This implies a very weird power curve. Torque about same as GT2 RS, but 180hp less. It means lots of boost in low revs, but falling terribly as motor begins to rev.

I hope this isn’t true or it will feel like a diesel truck

Yes, I understand that. But if the original specs are correct the manipulation of the torque curve would be massive and very harmful to the enjoyment of the car. I don't believe Porsche would design a GT3 replacement that had enormous low end torque that totally runs out of breath at middle and high revs (this is necessary to produce a car with huge torque but only modest power - since power is a mathematical formula of torque at rpm). Torque curve would have to fall off a cliff as rpm's rise to produce the predicted result. I don't believe Porsche would want anything close to this kind of character (quite the opposite). I would expect Porsche might artificially limit low-rpm boost in order to produce an exciting top end, more familiar to its NA motor fans.

A car with much more peak foot-pounds of torque than peak horsepower means it would drive like a truck motor or 60's American muscle car. We know Porsche does not want its GT car to drive this way. Even the GT2 RS is not close to this (power much higher than torque in ft-lbs). This allows the 2RS to make peak power near 7k rpm, not below 5k rpm like the specs leaked suggest. I have very high confidence that these are wrong.

Update- if Hp and Tq in Ft/Lbs were the same, peak Hp would come very low on the tach and there’d be no sense in a redline higher than 6,xxx rpm (with peak power made well below this point). The numbers in the prediction above show torque even higher relative to horsepower, pushing peak power even lower on the tach. Means torque curve would be falling rapidly well below 5,000 rpm (due to loss of boost or undersized turbochargers)

See here:

Yes, electric assistance could add much more torque than Hp (from zero rpm)