PogueMoHone

Now there's a sensible comment!

All these opinions about the GT3 being better, it should be lighter, etc, is mindless pablum (IMO). The details haven't been fully released and some are already re-engineering the car (send your resumes to Porsche, or I'll forward them for you).

Just wait for the "back to back" tests, Porsche is not stupid (nor do they think they customers are (just look at the AM8 for comparison). The GT3 RS will be incrementally better, and we all know that improvements at the margin are harder and harder to engineer.

But, if you really want to hedge your bets, buy one of each and then sell the "dog"!

And then comes the 997 GT2..and it starts all over again, a 997 GT2 RS!!!!!

frayed

So, let's crystallize the issue. From what we know today, the things the RS gets you for roughly 20k are:

Special colors (orange, green)
CGT-esque seats
Ltw fly
Half cage
Widebody
Plastic rear window
Carbon wing
-40lbs

Am I missing anything?

And, as of today, we still run the risk of getting entirely shafted in the US, with the RS being dumbed down.

Flying Finn

GT3 RS is coming to the US.

Whether it comes as a real GT3 RS (and not as a "GT3 RSA") with plastic window, half cage & bucket seats, I don't know but the car itself is coming.

Jerseybean

Someone on this board mention porsche were maybe going to use a Bayer DOT apporved lightweight plastic?

Bob Rouleau

Roscoe - my order was confirmed by the Zone rep. That was a month ago, I think he IS informed. Perhaps news spreads faster in Canada, but if we are getting it, so is the USA.

NJ-GT

Add:

- Carbon Fiber Hood
- Fire Extingisher
- 2-piece rear control arms
- Different front and rear wheel carriers (uprights)
- Better rear wheels offset
- Mesh grill on Air Scoop
- Painted Wheels
- RS graphics

Crazy Canuck

Bob,

Is Canada/USA getting the same version as the ROW with the cage?

Any news of an order guide. I've asked my sales guy at Pfaff but he hasn't sent me squat.

Jerseybean

Will the sunroof be an option on the RS? I hope not....

frayed

Both the GT3 and GT3RS appear to have the same rear suspension setup and same uprights. I think the porsche press release was misleading. As already posted.

http://www.porschecentrumeindhoven.n...rgelijking.pdf

Rear wheels sit outboard 17mm each more than the regular GT3, so I suppose better.

First I head of a CF Hood. Where did you read that?

EDIT: b/c the pdf document has far more details than the press release, and b/c it seems if there were a notable difference b/t the GT3 and GT3 RS suspension setups, it would seem natural to highlight those changes in the document, I've been interpreting the following blurb from the press release to refer to both the GT3 and the GT3 RS

JJayB

I hoped Porsche would have gone with the 3.8 motor along with the other lightening. The 3.8 Daytona prototypes are making over 500 hp with the 3.8. That would be a simple 30k hp up. I doubt if the cage will make it to the USA. If I can get "air" as an option my deposit goes in tomorrow. Got to go with the orange, it reminds me of a 55 chevy I had in high school that was competition orange. All my friends thought it was a sports car becaue of all the fun they had in the back seat.

Jimmy the fugitive

GrantG

It's only a bolt-in cage, so it can be installed after purchase with no problem...

JJayB

Hope your right... My product liability training says otherwise. I'm sure there will be sources.

Jimmy the fugitive

RR

Any bets that there will be an RSR released for sale in ROW only.

Flying Finn

As an street version?

No.

naparsei

according to the PDF doc, the gear ratios do not appear to be different. For the moment, I will beleive the PDF contains some speculation or perhaps was drawn up before final spec.