Tacet-Conundrum

Since Porsche just gave word of the new 911GTS on their website and there has been a lot of chatter of a new model 911 being introduced at the LA Auto Show... well I will bet "Six Bits" That it might be the GT3 RS. If it doesn't happen there then 99.9% chance it will be uncovered in Geneva next year. Just things to think about.

Any thoughs or ideas?

mooty

not so sure.
but LA show has usually been dud.
paris, detroit, china, geneva usually have the surprises.
but hey, if they do it in LA, that's great. we can stop all the guessing

Bob Rouleau

RS will be unveiled at Geneva with shipments starting immediately after the show.

mooty

when is geneva?
i dont get out much.

milban

March 5-15 2015

skuplist

LA may be the new GTS.

KenU

My 2 cents is on 2 new Macan models being intro'd in LA: GTS and Turbo S

Tacet-Conundrum

Ugh Bleh, who knows.

I'm just glad that the 911 GTS has retained the manual trans. But that still falls short of a GT3 not having the option. Who knows, there is a slim chance of seeing the RS with a standard tramsmission. I doubt it though....

KenU

Agreed since that was already announced, and possibly the new Macan models which were confirmed by Porsche this past August (just not when or where).

I also predict (guess) that the RS will debut in Geneva. Seems more appropriate for a car such as this to be introduced in Europe. Just a feeling, nothing else.

Carrera GT

I think that's a given. Geneva has become Porsches grandstand. Also, my fuzzy recollection was one of the handful of would-be celebrities at the top of Porsche have referred to a product map approved by VW including dozens of new models of existing cars and several entirely new models, all in a five year time frame that started before the GT3 and 918 shipped to customers.

I tend to subscribe to the expectation many have voiced, that the 997 will be the collectible 911, and I think that might be an era or an epoch, arguably for the rest of the potential future of Porsche, the 997 will be literally the "last" 911 and the 991 will mark a new chapter, a new era in 911's. I'd say the future history of the 911 to be written will describe the first 50 years, then the next 60 years in stark contrast as the once oldest family owned private car company with a racing pedigree became a fully commercialized brand entirely reoriented by soulless business executives to satisfy the demand of status conscious consumers rather than the pursuit of motorsport. That's not to say the 991 GT3 isn't a riotously fun machine on the road and on the track. It's as good as it gets today and shames every other new car on the market today with perhaps the limited exception of the Speciale. But you have to go back to 2010 or earlier, to get a 997 RS 3.8 or a 430 Scuderia to have a car that's really a driver's car. How long will we have to wait into the future to get past this era of hypercar hybrids with literally no physical connection between the driver and the road?

djcxxx

Future generations won't know or care about "driver's" cars anymore than people here care about saddles, horse shoes, and feed bags.

bigkraig

Considering how many renderings of LA locations in the video it seems like a pretty safe bet

tripleblack

Many folks care enough to spend more on a horse, saddles, feed, accommodation, grooming, training, transportation, & veterinary bills in any given year than most others do on a car, GT3's included. Of course they are not the majority, and the horse is not their daily transport. Then again, neither is the GT3 for most owners

It's not hard to envisage that in 20-30 years those of us who still own and drive fossil fuel burners will be viewed by the majority of others with disdain. Much like smokers in many parts of the world today...

LitRbl

How would you envisage shipments starting "immediately" after the show when there is always a sizeable lead time for orders to be specced, built and delivered post unveiling? Just curious

1198r

good friend of mine in OZ had head of Porsche Oz there today and first qrter 2015 was said. Geneva it is.