The result is a little harsher ride, but leave the adaptive dampers in their softest setting and they'll keep your head and body fat from jiggling excessively. Pretty much the only rubber in the chassis is the tires (optional Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 Rs $3737 at Tire Rack), as the softer suspension connections that help isolate and coddle lesser 911s have been replaced by ball joints to cinch up the RS's responses. A Pet Monsterįirst off, GT3 RS shopper, the ride quality is civil enough so as to not disturb your significant other when you volunteer to drive to dinner, although pulling 1.24 g's in a corner may permanently rearrange their opinion of you. So, in the interest of science and being thorough-and offering relevant consumer advice to shoppers in the $200K sports-car segment-we agreed to a week with a $208,717 GT3 RS. And then the phone rang with the offer to drive a GT3 RS in Southern California. Perhaps it was too loud or too harsh or too extreme for the world outside the racetrack: more Dodge Viper ACR than Porsche 911. Porsche certainly could have held the drive program outside Germany, which made us suspect that maybe its PR department didn't want us to drive the RS on the street. HIGHS: Breathtaking soundtrack, clairvoyant transmission, huge grip levels, livable around town. And Porsche's dual-clutch automatic is like having Hurley Haywood choosing the gears as it perfectly anticipates your every move on the track and always finds itself in the right one of its seven forward ratios. The wider-is-grippier chassis, borrowed from the 700-hp GT2 RS, holds on like it cares about you. Its electrically assisted power steering is perfectly reactive for diving toward apexes as the wings push you deep toward the Earth's mantle.
The 520-hp flat-six howls like Allen Ginsberg at 9000 rpm. In that environment, the most race-car-like Porsche that breathes in the atmosphere is everything you'd hope it'd be. Now, a GT3 RS on snow shoes does sound like the right kind of ice racing, but in hopes that we'd properly lick the performance envelope, Porsche kept our behind-the-wheel time to laps on the Nürburgring Formula 1 track. You see, to legally drive any car in Germany between November 1 and April 15 means fitting winter tires. When we drove the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS in Germany last year, we were kept off public roads.
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