Car and Driver: 2018 GT3 PDK Review

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03-26-2018, 12:52 AM

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Weather in Springtime in Colorado is usually both awesome and then fierce! Snow due later this week (and then warm, and then Blizzard, etc...)

Today was gorgeous though . 60’s at high altitudes and 70s in town...

Btw, if you look closely at my pic of the lake, you’ll see that it’s stilll partly frozen...

Yea I can tell the air is still brisk but still much better weather than what we have going here in NE. Great to see you guys are getting a head start on driving season

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03-26-2018, 02:32 AM

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Grant, i see your partly frozen puddle and puny hills, and I raise you roads with walls of snow and icy patches cut through actual mountains!

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03-26-2018, 10:23 AM

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Beautiful

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03-26-2018, 12:28 PM

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Great article!

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03-26-2018, 12:38 PM

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Jealous of you Colorado guys. Great weather you got on those pics

We do have car friendly winters.

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03-28-2018, 07:24 AM

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0–60 mph : 3.0 sec

Rolling start, 5–60 mph: 3.9 sec

seems odd, rolling start is slower ..what am I missing?

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03-28-2018, 07:44 AM

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0–60 mph : 3.0 sec

Rolling start, 5–60 mph: 3.9 sec

seems odd, rolling start is slower ..what am I missing?

If it is PDK with launch control than the rolling would be slower I would think

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03-28-2018, 10:04 AM

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Using launch control, from 6,000rpm, you explode off the line and stay in the powerband through the acceleration run. On a 5-60mph run, you are beginning your acceleration run from probably 2,000rpm and it apparently takes ~1 second to get up into the powerband.

3.9 for a 4.0L NA engine 5-60 from a rolling start isn't bad at all really. Shows the broad powerband of this new engine.

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03-28-2018, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sampelligrino

Interesting....he seems to love the car even though it has the blasphemous sofas, PDK, and standard interior....

Goes to show I think this car in any variation is a winner

Reading the comments below the article is a reminder of how lucky we are to own these cars. The majority of people would love to own a GT3 in any color, transmission, seat, wing/no wing, etc. Makes some of the debates we have on here seem silly (which I am guilty of as well).