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11-14-2013, 05:06 PM

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Why does this give any assurance about a N. American racing bucket arrival? Wouldn't this apply to all global parts?

The reason it gives me hope is that the image above is the same basic structural design as the 918 seats, the 918 includes N. American sales and the 918 configurator shows that seat structure as the only offering.

The ROW configurators currently show the 997 style bucket seats which have a fundamentally different structure.

To me this implies that the 918 seat is being or has been DOT certified and could be cross certified into the 991 chassis.

Ryan

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11-14-2013, 05:40 PM

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Even if that's all accurate, one has to wonder, if a seat that befits a million dollar hyper-car would be used in the lowly gt3. From both a marketing perspective and a cost perspective.

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11-14-2013, 05:53 PM

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Ryan: I like the detective work. I'll hang onto any glimmer of hope for the real seats.

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11-14-2013, 06:00 PM

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My guess is we will first see them in the RS at Geneva and availability for the GT3 soon after that.

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11-14-2013, 06:01 PM

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Wouldn't that PET screen capture just be the euro buckets? If so, that doesn't mean much for us in the states.

I dont think that's it ... the illustration is different, *and* it would already have a P/N since its already delivered in RoW cars... just guessing.

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11-14-2013, 06:06 PM

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2015 GT3 RS and 2015 GT3 "should" get these seats.....

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11-14-2013, 06:08 PM

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2015 GT3 RS and 2015 GT3 "should" get these seats.....

cheers Brett!

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11-14-2013, 06:10 PM

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Even if that's all accurate, one has to wonder, if a seat that befits a million dollar hyper-car would be used in the lowly gt3. From both a marketing perspective and a cost perspective.

Porsche put the Carrera GT seats in the 997 GT3 as a club sport package (na for the USA). I don't think the new seats will be exclusive to the 918.

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11-14-2013, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonnen Porsche

2015 GT3 RS and 2015 GT3 "should" get these seats.....

Nice.

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Porsche put the Carrera GT seats in the 997 GT3 as a club sport package (na for the USA). I don't think the new seats will be exclusive to the 918.

That would be awesome.

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11-14-2013, 07:09 PM

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Even if that's all accurate, one has to wonder, if a seat that befits a million dollar hyper-car would be used in the lowly gt3. From both a marketing perspective and a cost perspective.

Well, they for sure they did it with brakes (the new PCCB's) albeit at a cost.

Which raises the question if using the seats from the 918 will give Porsche an excuse to price them at a hefty premium in the GT3.

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11-14-2013, 07:14 PM

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Well, they for sure they did it with brakes (the new PCCB's) albeit at a cost.

Which raises the question if using the seats from the 918 will give Porsche an excuse to price them at a hefty premium in the GT3.

Yes. Why? Because they can...

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11-14-2013, 09:11 PM

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Well, they for sure they did it with brakes (the new PCCB's) albeit at a cost.

Which raises the question if using the seats from the 918 will give Porsche an excuse to price them at a hefty premium in the GT3.

They also gave Macan the 918 like steering.

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11-14-2013, 09:42 PM

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I'll bet we see this multi-function 'sport' wheel across the Porsche range soon.

All makes sense now why they did not waste the time and money to certify the 'GT2' sport bucket seat for the US 991/981. I'll bet we see the 918 sport seat optional across the 991/981 range for 2015 as well.