GT3 RS - Limited Edition - 500 Cars - 500HP!!
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Remember that the 996GT3 overlapped with the 997's debut in 2005. Perhaps there will be 2012 997 GT3 models alongside the 991?
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Perhaps they're just testing the performance of the Internet to propagate speculation. It certainly shows a non GT2 RS with the molded front fenders. And it doesn't show any hiding of the various features of the Hybrid R. Whatever this car might be, it's a Dino Dust engine alone, it's not a Hybrid. As others have pointed out, it's not unheard for Porsche to have some overlap in models. The current 997.2 could well live on as the GT platform while the 991 is born as a Carrera which would presumably already be designed to accommodate all the hybrid gadgetry and gimmickry.
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The four red LED dots on the tail lights are not new, they are standard on all of our current 997.2 tail lights. If we look at our 997.2 from the side with lights on, we will see those four red LED dots in our cars. I think in these spy pictures, they just taped over some areas of the tail lights, and made these four red LED dots stand out more than usual.
And from the spy pictures, it is hard to tell if there are any Hybrid pieces in these test cars. Mind us that a street-version Hybrid does not necessarily need to use the KERS flywheel. If it uses the current NiHM-battery based Hybrid drive as in other production (and soon to be in production) Porsche street cars, it will not be visible from plain view.
Regardlessly, I agree with everyone that Porsche is definitely cooking up something on the GT3 platform, I guess we will see...
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And from the spy pictures, it is hard to tell if there are any Hybrid pieces in these test cars. Mind us that a street-version Hybrid does not necessarily need to use the KERS flywheel. If it uses the current NiHM-battery based Hybrid drive as in other production (and soon to be in production) Porsche street cars, it will not be visible from plain view.
Regardlessly, I agree with everyone that Porsche is definitely cooking up something on the GT3 platform, I guess we will see...
Regards,
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The four red LED dots on the tail lights are not new, they are standard on all of our current 997.2 tail lights. If we look at our 997.2 from the side with lights on, we will see those four red LED dots in our cars. I think in these spy pictures, they just taped over some areas of the tail lights, and made these four red LED dots stand out more than usual.
And from the spy pictures, it is hard to tell if there are any Hybrid pieces in these test cars. Mind us that a street-version Hybrid does not necessarily need to use the KERS flywheel. If it uses the current NiHM-battery based Hybrid drive as in other production (and soon to be in production) Porsche street cars, it will not be visible from plain view.
Regardlessly, I agree with everyone that Porsche is definitely cooking up something on the GT3 platform, I guess we will see...
Regards,
And from the spy pictures, it is hard to tell if there are any Hybrid pieces in these test cars. Mind us that a street-version Hybrid does not necessarily need to use the KERS flywheel. If it uses the current NiHM-battery based Hybrid drive as in other production (and soon to be in production) Porsche street cars, it will not be visible from plain view.
Regardlessly, I agree with everyone that Porsche is definitely cooking up something on the GT3 platform, I guess we will see...
Regards,
I think we can assume from the 918 that the street cars will have all electric hybrid systems, presumably with Lithium Ion Polymer concoctions (not the most exotic of electricity storage given the latest chemicals and the hyper-caps and so on.) But no mechanical flywheels ... however insanely cool that would be ...
"yes, my 911 has a blast-proof enclosure for the 100 thousand rpm 'push to pass' flywheel storing the equivalent explosive force of a small thermo-nuclear suitcase bomb device that's about two feet from my ***** ... why do you ask?"
: )Anyway, if any of these three cars had anything hybrid, it would surely have all the cooling ducts and gaping flanks of the other test mule we've seen photographed looking just like a blacked-out Hybrid R.
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The bright dots I see on the tail lamps are four vertically aligned white dots, not red.
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Have seen this triplet today in a spanish highway near to Barcelona:
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_01.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_02.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_03.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_04.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_05.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_06.jpg)
Cars are using "BB" -Weissach- german plates and externally US-spec, really a suspicious combination here in southern Europe...
Two of the drivers seem to be wearing some mechanic clothes, and I've seen the upper part of a computer on the co-driver seats, opened and facing the drivers.
Maybe this isn't related with the 4.0 rumour, but sure, they are testing something...![Smilie](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_01.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_02.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_03.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_04.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_05.jpg)
![](http://www.soloporsche.com/PublicDownload/997GT3RSMKIII/GT3RS_06.jpg)
Cars are using "BB" -Weissach- german plates and externally US-spec, really a suspicious combination here in southern Europe...
Two of the drivers seem to be wearing some mechanic clothes, and I've seen the upper part of a computer on the co-driver seats, opened and facing the drivers.
Maybe this isn't related with the 4.0 rumour, but sure, they are testing something...
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Did someone from Audemars Piguet join Porsche's marketing team???? They crank out more limited editions than AP does Royal Oak Offshore variants. When will the craziness stop.... (though i still like the Speedster)....
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Regardlessly, I agree with everyone that Porsche is definitely cooking up something on the GT3 platform, I guess we will see..
1. Carbon front fenders
2. Different taillights- see the four clear LED's?
3. Different color centerlocks
4. Different sill/rocker area, either missing or painted.
(taillights but no carbon fenders or painted rockers on gold wheel car)
2. Different taillights- see the four clear LED's?
3. Different color centerlocks
4. Different sill/rocker area, either missing or painted.
(taillights but no carbon fenders or painted rockers on gold wheel car)
The stock one is only camouflage. The one with gold has different lights and an engineers/laptop in it, so that could be just drive line testing.
The one with the black wheels looks like a narrow body to me, making front fenders look wider and explains the rocker panel.
So they are testing both narrow body and wide body with new engines/pdk/hybrid?
Maybe also homoligation special edition to get bigger engines / Direct injection/ hybrid /PDK to compete next year?
Slightly different lights and CL would also point to still another iteration of 997.
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Mock-up of GT3 Hybrid by someone over on Teamspeed. FWIW, if we do get a limited edition GT3 swansong I don't think it will incorporate hybrid technology. That will likely wait for the 991 variant.
But the renderings are pretty sweet:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/...470feab6_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/...a4ed9100_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/...5b1c2349_o.jpg
But the renderings are pretty sweet:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/...470feab6_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/...a4ed9100_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/...5b1c2349_o.jpg
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If Porsche is using this car to showcase new hybrid technology, then I don't think it will hold too much value over the long term. The 991 version will do the same and better. This is a developing technology pretty much in its infancy as it pertains to road cars.
Porsche has the chance, or so I think, to do something truely iconic like the 73 RS and 993 GT2. This could be the grestest variant ever to be released (assuming hybrid is the future). I'm hoping for an RSR type styled car with a 500hp 4.0L engine with the lightening techniqes from the GT2 RS applied. If Sharkwerks can do a 500hp 3.9L, then so can Porsche. And I hope they do.
Porsche has the chance, or so I think, to do something truely iconic like the 73 RS and 993 GT2. This could be the grestest variant ever to be released (assuming hybrid is the future). I'm hoping for an RSR type styled car with a 500hp 4.0L engine with the lightening techniqes from the GT2 RS applied. If Sharkwerks can do a 500hp 3.9L, then so can Porsche. And I hope they do.
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Thing is, the only variant that would really be cool is something more track worthy. For course with the target being collectors only people like Leno will actually drive the car.
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perhaps with the new RS, there will be a walter SE, with KERS energying the movement, instead of ever winding.
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Impressive work from the artist at teamspeed.
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