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I'm making an educated guess that all NA and ROW RSs have finished production..They will start building the new generation 4L engine for the Speedster and last batch EU only RSs with the GPF and ITBs soon..There's no way that the existing RS engine and the new one will be build concurrently IMO.
MB looks great on 3RS and 3 and 2rs....any GT with black bits. I'm not as much of a fan of mb with silver but love it with black contrast. It was my second choice behind the bumble bee spec I built on my 3rs. But I've had MXB but never yellow on any car. I think my next GT will be MB. Great build and i agree i like the mb belts; I'm not a fan of yellow bits inside on MB. It drives me crazy that Porsche doesn't match the door pull automatically to the belt choice (I'm ocd like that; don't get me started on how the yellow pccb calipers didn't change to match RY instead of the old SY). On my uv RS i paid the cxx upcharge for yellow pulls to match my yellow belts but dang that was expensive for a small strip of nylon. This time I just went grey; i couldn't get past mismatch belt/pulls and I couldn't stomach the cxx upcharge.
By all accounts yes, US production ending soon. Euro market RS will be built likely w Speedster engine starting June (my speculation but makes sense).
Originally Posted by Taffy66
I'm making an educated guess that all NA and ROW RSs have finished production..They will start building the new generation 4L engine for the Speedster and last batch EU only RSs with the GPF and ITBs soon..There's no way that the existing RS engine and the new one will be build concurrently IMO.
Will the last batch EU cars definitely have the ITBs to match the new exhaust design.
Will the last batch EU cars definitely have the ITBs to match the new exhaust design.
My contact at PGB asked that specific question on my behalf to the Technical Dept at Porsche..My contact referred back to me that the second batch EU RS has passed the WLTP tests and will have the ITBs fitted..Unless they're deliberately lying to me which is highly unlikely then its concrete info..The Speedster and RS engine will be identical IMO apart from a modest 10PS more power in the RS.
MB looks great on 3RS and 3 and 2rs....any GT with black bits. I'm not as much of a fan of mb with silver but love it with black contrast. It was my second choice behind the bumble bee spec I built on my 3rs. But I've had MXB but never yellow on any car. I think my next GT will be MB. Great build and i agree i like the mb belts; I'm not a fan of yellow bits inside on MB. It drives me crazy that Porsche doesn't match the door pull automatically to the belt choice (I'm ocd like that; don't get me started on how the yellow pccb calipers didn't change to match RY instead of the old SY). On my uv RS i paid the cxx upcharge for yellow pulls to match my yellow belts but dang that was expensive for a small strip of nylon. This time I just went grey; i couldn't get past mismatch belt/pulls and I couldn't stomach the cxx upcharge.
Nice build
Yeah I really want the door pulls to be either Miami Blue or black. The grey seems odd to me. I also don't like silver trim or fake looking metal trim. That's why I spec'd the AC vent trim black (not shown in the photo). I also wish I could get the little painted stripes on the gear selector trim in Miami Blue as well. When you select green interior they do them in green. But that's a small detail I guess. I didn't want to do any CXX options since I don't think the cost and wait is worth it.
Miami blue looks so good on the RS.
You’d think it would look just as good on the GT3, but it just doesn’t. Maybe it’s all the contrasting black bits and more aggressive look of the RS.
Congrats!
im biased but I like the clean lines - cue an RS is an RS comment
im biased but I like the clean lines - cue an RS is an RS comment
the wait is the worst!
I personally like driving my GT3 more than my RS due to the manual transmission. Will not use the RS is an RS argument. I didn’t say the Miami blue looked bad on a GT3. I just think it looks better on an RS. Just personal. Your car looks great!
My contact at PGB asked that specific question on my behalf to the Technical Dept at Porsche..My contact referred back to me that the second batch EU RS has passed the WLTP tests and will have the ITBs fitted..Unless they're deliberately lying to me which is highly unlikely then its concrete info..The Speedster and RS engine will be identical IMO apart from a modest 10PS more power in the RS.
Seems like this means the batch 2 cars will get lighter due to the 10kg muffler reduction. Unclear what the ITBs might add, but net that weight off the tail might be enough to feel? In addition to the different noise, throttle response, torque and power rpms...
Cue the batch 1 vs batch 2 cage matches.
05-13-2019, 10:26 PM
