Recently at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Porsche revealed its
new 911 GT3 Touring Pack, and the people, the media and almost everyone else
went crazy about it majorly for two reasons, first one being that it is an affordable manual 911 from Porsche and the second one being,” It will
lead to depreciation of the 911R” which is a purists car with a manual that
costs about $5,00,000(price today) base price and had only 991 units made. But
this is not the case, Porsche isn’t cheating its premium paying VIP customers
and taking a sh*t on their face by dumping the car world by “a more affordable
911R”. Let me tell you what exactly are these cars.
THE 911R:
It’s the purest 911 ever made, it’s 3900 pounds being the
lightest 911 ever, it comes with a 4 litre engine from GT3RS producing 500
horse power. This car is a project by Porsche to remind the world that making a
great supercar is not only about setting lap times and a great 0-60 time but
also about the driving experience, it defies the notion that modern supercars
can’t be loud, communicating or involving because its all of them. The 911R is
pure because it’s a mechanical masterpiece that is a physical representation of
the term “Driving Experience”, you hear everything that is going on underneath
the car including the injector movement in the injector pump, the engagement of
gears while shifting, the opening of the throttling valve while switching on
the car and the actual mechanical engine noise while cruising (not revving).
What is a 911 GT3 Touring Pack?
It’s not a cheap and
pure 911R, it’s a manual GT3 without a wing! This is a less extreme more
drivable and a better daily than the regular 911 GT3 or a GT3RS, this touring package is
available with a six speed manual, a naturally aspirated 4 litre flat six,
producing 493 HP, “Not much difference in stats” one would say but that’s
exactly the point and this is what the people are missing, GT3 with a PDK was a
track focused car, great to drive but lacking all the purity and the driving
pleasure and this is why the 911 GT3 Touring, so that people can enjoy the less track focused and a bit more driver oriented GT3.
But the 911R is a driving experience in itself, being ripped
off all the fancy gadgets and gizmos. It’s a car all pure in its experience and
one of a kind that will never be remade. So, NO the 911R ISN’T ON THE VERGE OF DEPRECIATION.
And it will never
be, to all those who say that prices will drop, NO they won’t and it’s still at half a million dollars, base!
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