Tejas500

I think the 7.2 3.8L GT3 is the best all around without throwing down another $30K+ for the 7.2 RS. However, If I were going to buy just one P-car to keep until I am old and grey and it weren't going to be a DD then I would save $10K and buy a non-Nav 7.1 RS.

Carrera GT

Strewth! Stone the crows, you two bludgers! Don't come the raw prawn with me. Bruces, I didn't say your girlfriends are ugly, just that they remind me of Joh Bejelke-Peterson about to sneeze. Kidding!

In the line up of GT3's and RS's, at least in the US market, the 997.2 GT3 arrived to a luke warm reception. It brought the nose lift and that was about it. It's incremental in the 911 way. The thing I liked most about it was the absence of a sunroof (not a big deal in other markets) and i think it brought the GT2 seats to the option list.

I don't mean anything derogatory by "unremarkable" -- the car simply didn't bring anything all that remarkable. When I had the 997.1 GT3, I couldn't find the motivation to update. If someone was looking to buy a GT3 or RS from '99 to 2011, there are some remarkable ones. If someone was looking to buy a 911, circa 2010, I didn't see any reason to argue against the .2 GT3 per se, nor did I see cause to update from the .1 at the time.

It's a sequence of cars. For years, I really couldn't differentiate between the 997.1 GT3 and the 996.2 GT3. I had the '04 and the '07 at the same time because I was not immediately convinced to give up the 996.2. There were also people paying up for the 997.1 GT3, so I managed to drive mine for most of two track seasons and sell for effectively zero cost. In retrospect, I'd take the 996.2 "warts and all" -- the cabin is just not my cup of tea with all the swooping oval shapes and hard plastic, but mine had full black leather and carbon froufrou bits that I think went a long way to making it a nicer place to find yourself sitting after spending US$99K+.

When the 997.1 GT3 came along, it appealed to my 993 tendencies. The 997.2 tended to add bulk and heft. It certainly is a quicker example in the lineage, but it didn't win me over. I positioned it as more street oriented, the 997.1 more track oriented. Just subjective.

Then I had the luck to get a 3.8 RS and that was that -- there's really not been a 911 like it and it really raised the bar on all counts from handling to raw power, the setup of gearing, the performance out of the box, the appearance (once the stickers are off it) and it really is remarkable. So in that line-up, again, the 997.2 GT3 was a bridesmaid, never the bride.

I've chosen GT3's as track cars, with secondary duties for street driving only on occasion. I dislike the 3.8 RS as a daily driver and perhaps the .2 GT3 wins out over the .1 GT3 (some locals here like mjones drove his .2 GT3 like a grand tourer and racked up cross country road trips for no more cause than to be driving the car.) I found the .2 a bit loud in the cabin for the long haul, to say the least. Around town, it's just too much car -- on public roads, there's no way to use it to its potential.

So again, I don't mean anything especially critical or negative and I realize that .2 GT3 owners, some of whom on Rennlist I count amongst my friends and fellow track junkies, are not exactly crying themselves to sleep. : )

911rox

lmao... No offense taken CGT... We are all entitled to an opinion and I was trying to understand on what basis you ranked it a you did...Now I understand your thinking! Agreed, there were very few innovations that came with the .2 gt3, they just seemed to tidy up most aspects of the earlier cars and make it a more rounded performer... )