Can I remind you everything on this thread is not factual.....If you do only 500 like the previous poster mentioned guess what will happen...can you say 9111R hysteria again? Then I mention about taking the limited production out and you can bet the price would be close to a GT3. Is that too wild of a guess to understand? I'm not emotional so not sure where you come from on that...just voicing my opinion on what after many years working on the auto industry can guess...and I stress "guess" here...could happen. If you read my posts you will see I'm good with a RS but the reality is that there are a lot of people that take some comment and forget how a business works. I have seen far more science fiction posts on this thread that mine without a reaction like yours which is the one pretty much emotional.....but we will see next year what will happen, I'll buy you a round of drinks if the RS happens how about that?

 

 

Gazz a stroked 4l with X51 cams and porting will make a big difference to the GT4 - if it comes with that, it will perform in a very similar manner to the current GT3 engine right up to the redline @ 7800 rpm - keep in mind although the higher red line of the GT3 delivers higher AFW HP the RWHP suffers disproportionately higher losses.

The current GT cars and indeed the Carreras (S and above) have rear axle steering as standard (or option in the case of the carreras) and this delivers a very balanced handling experience e.g.during high speed cornering the wheelbase from a dynamics POV is extended by 20 inches. Thus delivering a mid-engined like feel - the bigger problem with these cars is the lack of wheel and tire choice due to the rear axle steering rams (e.g. need to be 20 inch with a specific offset and barrel design to allow the rams to move unhindered - I believe in the US there a some boutique 19 inch solutions).

I track my GTS spec car regularly and the only thing that holds it back is tires e.g. corner speed is limited by grip

 

My Son found these photos posted today on the net. Looks pretty 718 GT4 like.. They were hanging with that preproduction 911.

 

Thanks for posting, but those are a few months old.

 

yawn....

 

Wow. Look at everything Whoopsy caused.
I kid of course.

On a serious note, when has porsche really gone and put completely different engines in their GT and RS models ??
If the GT4 is getting a non GT engine stroked to 4L and the GT4 RS gets the GT3 engine, I am fairly certain a lot of GT4 buyers will be extremely unhappy.

I really don't care for the "Buy the GT4 RS" argument because the GT4 RS will not come with a manual transmission.

 

But that's the fun and the challenge that makes it so.

At this point, I am reading this thread for the pictures... Let me know when PAG says something.

 

I personally think the GT4 RS is vaporware, even if a test mule exists.
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Has Porsche ever offered two RS trims in two separate model lines simultaneously? I don't believe so...

 

Agreed, I wouldn't put the chances of it ever seeing the light of day at greater than 1 in 5. And only because the glorious NA engines are relatively close to being history, so they might possibly do it as a last hurrah kind of thing.

 

They claim to have set a track record at Road Atlanta with the new 'vette. This is 8 secs faster than my GT4... and that's a lot. Just wondering how many laps they could do like this.
Prob just the one before it breaks.

 

 

Umm... 991.1? I know they're quite similar but they're not as similar as say the GT4 and 991.1 911 engines. Different displacement and all. The 4.0L was very much made just for the RS and different from the non-RS. They were far more different than the 991.2 cars are from one another.

Maybe that's the one I was thinking of rather than VIR. I knew it was some American track that Porsche has no reason to care about.

I mean... can you imagine if everyone felt the need to go and beat everyone else's track records at every random track around the world??

 

Three years ago Porsche had never offered a GT car that wasn't a 911.

Things happen.

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/...sche-gt-cars#6

​​​​​​You sure?

Nothing is impossible, but I think highly unlikely. Porsche has offered a "GT" version of many model lines. My logic is that the RennSport designation will remain singular.