Sort of off-topic but it just burns my gut that Porsche and Porsche dealers have this attitude of your just lucky to get a GT car even if it's 25K over and then the cars have issues like this. I can't imagine burning down my new RS. They are very lucky they have this kind of brand loyalty. They are however not helping themselves.

 

^ This

Every car has issues. It is how they handle them that separates the men from the boys.

Peter

 

We are unsure of what happened exactly and porsche hasn't released anything yet.
So give this story a break until we know what really happened..

 

Not looking to start a 991 vs Mezger argument. As you rightfully point out SnB, the Mezger had it's fair share of issues particularly in the RS format. You owned one, I own one and I accept it short comings but by the same token have managed 35k kms (10-15k on track) without a failure to date. Having paid my $315k, I would be far from happy being on my second or third engine and approaching end of warranty in a car designed for track duty. I would not want to rely on a company's goodwill to keep me on the road and no company is going to be burning dollars looking after customers outside of warranty regardless of their position now to save face.

Mind you ,Porsche took a 997 RS off the showroom floor and completed a NBR 24 hour with the car running mid pack against a class of Cup cars. That kind of achievement speaks volumes in anyone's book regardless of shortcomings like those you described as none of us could inflict the kind of punishment on the car that those four pro drivers did for 24 continuous hours!

 

If you remember this video.. The guy was beating the car to redline for 30mins..

http://youtu.be/CLhFQ0-AhBY

And no problem whatsoever.. So enjoy your cars (and the video ) until we get official info..

 

Very true, yes, let's wait. However, just curious... how many burned down GT3's and RS's are considered acceptable on a percentage basis?

 

That is what sold me on it. I've never been as excited over the prospect of owning a car as I was after watching and reading about that race. To date, no other car has come remotely close.

 

video is down / set to privat.

why?

 

The plot thickens!

 

Possible that Porsche does not want/need any bad press before they have time to investigate the true nature of this fire

 

or the privat guy - who filmed - and quite know the owner. put it out. maybe on the owners request.

don't remember the yt user name

 

997.2 rs engine have issues too. Depend how you use the car. I know 3 .2 rs used hard on track got engines replaced. People are trend to drive cars harder now days. Especially when you have a 991 gt3 rs.
Guys in Mideast take them straight to racing.

 

 

Exactly SnB! They believed in their product and put their reputation where their mouth is for marketing... Whilst no car is foolproof and free of issues, for those of us who buy and regularly track our cars there was a level of comfort from seeing our production car mix it with the big boys in such an unforgiving environment, breaking every rule in the owners manual and survive...

That's the level of quality and reliability I'd want from all future GT cars or they may as well be another Carrera variant...

 

If they run an RS in 24H this year, we'll know the answer I guess. Is anyone racing that engine yet, or is that still 2016?