GT2 top speed
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GT2 top speed
Well tried my damned hardest today to hit the GT2's top speed which Porsche tell us is 204mph. The A31, Brabus's unofficial "test track" in Northern Germany was the venue, burnt a couple of tanks of juice in an hour and a half whilst waiting for the bahn to clear enough, check out the trace below, never cleared enough to be able to max it..... (the trace below is 100 miles of driving 
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Perseverance pays off, the road cleared and the pedal was held to the metal....185mph (about 193mph on the clock) comes up quite quickly but once over 190mph things take an age.
The GT2 takes 1.6 miles to go from 190 to 200mph and around 30s, it really did not want to hit the double ton but 199.6mph was achieved and 200mph flickered on the Driftbox (it showed 211mph on the digi clock !)
So over 185 the GT2 accelerates very lethargically and feels in desparate need of another couple of hundred hp but here is the good news... The stability is uncanny, to be able to drive the thing on a 2 lane not particularly flat bahn past some traffic at 198+mph (from a mile with my experience of 190mph runs on 300metre wide runways) I would have considered undoable but this thing is super stable an absolute gem - Porsche have upped the drag and made the GT2 the consumate 200mph cruiser - I love this car
)Perseverance pays off, the road cleared and the pedal was held to the metal....185mph (about 193mph on the clock) comes up quite quickly but once over 190mph things take an age.
The GT2 takes 1.6 miles to go from 190 to 200mph and around 30s, it really did not want to hit the double ton but 199.6mph was achieved and 200mph flickered on the Driftbox (it showed 211mph on the digi clock !)
So over 185 the GT2 accelerates very lethargically and feels in desparate need of another couple of hundred hp but here is the good news... The stability is uncanny, to be able to drive the thing on a 2 lane not particularly flat bahn past some traffic at 198+mph (from a mile with my experience of 190mph runs on 300metre wide runways) I would have considered undoable but this thing is super stable an absolute gem - Porsche have upped the drag and made the GT2 the consumate 200mph cruiser - I love this car
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Sounds good that it's solid... I wonder badly what my RUF GT2 can do with the regeared 6th added in and upped power.. I have been up to 185 in a breeze but couldn't stay planted as I didn't have enough ***** too lol... Besides that my car get's kind of hairy up at those speeds :/
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Thanks for replies....
Here is a pic filling up with another half hour worth of fuel
Quite amusingly Shell label their 100RON V Power as "Racing V Power" - it is obvious that using the English word does not have such an impact in Germany because the lefties would never allow any of us citizens to buy a "racing" fuel to use on public roads in the UK !
Here is a pic filling up with another half hour worth of fuel
Quite amusingly Shell label their 100RON V Power as "Racing V Power" - it is obvious that using the English word does not have such an impact in Germany because the lefties would never allow any of us citizens to buy a "racing" fuel to use on public roads in the UK !
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