sudschleife

Very interesting!

CAlexio

We're all waiting for that magical chris Harris video aren't we

Kobalt

This was the plan for 991.1 RS:

GrantG

I wonder through which outlet we'd get the CH video? He doesn't do his internet shows anymore, afaik. Do we have to wait for an episode of Top Gear? Hope it happens during this season (not many weeks remaining) or it will be a long wait...

Alan Smithee

How did you obtain this 'understanding'? I've been subscribing to US car magazines for 40 years, and from what I have read this is not the case. Porsche is conservative, as are most manufacturers.

GrantG

Someone needs to edit the misleading title of this thread - the 991.2 GT3 Manual is going to be faster than 997.2 GT3 in every metric (also faster than 997.2 RS and probably at least as fast as 997.2 RS 4.0 also - factory spec is same 3.8s for both):

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...t-drive-review

Chris3963

Then why do European magazines mostly always report slower times than US magazines or are Porsches shipped to the US faster.

Chris3963

MT, R&T, C&D and Edmunds all use a 1 foot rollout methodology. It exaggerates 0-60 times by as much as 0.3 secs.....but who cares, it's irrelevant anyway.

Here are two articles from the magazines themselves that discuss the 1 foot rollout technique they use.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features...nce-of-rollout

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...-2-28-seconds/

Alan Smithee

...and where is it stated that ROW magazines do not use the same technique?

I agree it is irrelevant.

Loess

It's not irrelevant when comparing the same thing using different test methods. I don't believe Porsche is using any rollout nor likely correcting for temperature, hence they are more conservative. The main US car mags use a rollout as referenced by Chris and have for years. It's generally in the fine print of their articles.

Alan Smithee

It is always irrelevant when comparing the same thing using different test methods. Even more so when comparing different things using different test methods, as the OP has.

Loess

The differing results in themselves may be irrelevant but understanding why they are different is not. The rollout is relevant as to why some tests get at 3.8s 0-60 and others get 3.4s.

neanicu

This is terrible news! I'm so disappointed and upset that I cut my pinky with a piece of paper! And it hurts!

Airbag997

0-60 is a poor straight line performance metric IMHO. 0-100 is a much better metric for gauging straight line performance. 0-60 is too narrow-band, and does not provide enough bandwidth wrt straight line performance.

Spyder Man

Yep, the 991.2 6MT is faster than the 997 4.0 RS from 0-100mph and most like beyond that as well


991.2 GT3 7.6s
997 4.0 RS 7.9s