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Fifty-five years of development and over one million 911s built has led us to this: the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The maddest, baddest, most powerful and fastest Neunelfer ever signed off for public consumption. After a brief showing to launch the new Forza game, it"s being properly revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today, and the stats we can now reveal to you wholeheartedly deserve mention at the world"s fastest garden party.Seven hundred metric horsepower is shoehorned into the back of this 911. The 3.8-litre flat-six based vaguely on the hardly undercooked engine found in the standard 911 Turbo puts out, in old money, 691bhp, and a gargantuan 553lb ft. Yes, this 911 is troubling its rear wheels and its rear wheels alone with an absurd 80bhp and 37lb ft more than the previous 997 GT2 RS. How can only six cylinders create fury normally reserved for V12 megacars? The answer is larger turbochargers, optimised cooling, and when things get really, volcanically hot, a coolant injection system that sprays a mist of water onto the charge-air cooler to reduce intake temperature and maintain certifiable levels of boost. Meanwhile, the engine is breathing out via a bespoke exhaust made not from your regular old titanium, but extra-lightweight titanium", according to Stuttgart"s presumably quite unhinged engineers. This alone saves 7kg from the GT2 RS"s arse-biased weight total compared to a 911 Turbo"s pipes, and turns up the volume too.Is it the fastest 911 of all time? Well, Porsche"s claimed 0-62mph in 2.8 seconds, which is a solitary tenth slower than a 911 Turbo S, which can deploy a four-wheel drive traction advantage at launch. Still, 2.8 isn"t slow, is it? It"s ahead of McLaren 720S pace, for instance. And flat out, the new GT2 RS will crack 211mph, knocking the old 997-gen GT2 RS off its 205mph perch and confirming yes indeed, this is the 911 speed king.
Date written: 30 Jun 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8335
Fifty-five years of development and over one million 911s built has led us to this: the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The maddest, baddest, most powerful and fastest Neunelfer ever signed off for public consumption. After a brief showing to launch the new Forza game, it"s being properly revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today, and the stats we can now reveal to you wholeheartedly deserve mention at the world"s fastest garden party.Seven hundred metric horsepower is shoehorned into the back of this 911. The 3.8-litre flat-six based vaguely on the hardly undercooked engine found in the standard 911 Turbo puts out, in old money, 691bhp, and a gargantuan 553lb ft. Yes, this 911 is troubling its rear wheels and its rear wheels alone with an absurd 80bhp and 37lb ft more than the previous 997 GT2 RS. How can only six cylinders create fury normally reserved for V12 megacars? The answer is larger turbochargers, optimised cooling, and when things get really, volcanically hot, a coolant injection system that sprays a mist of water onto the charge-air cooler to reduce intake temperature and maintain certifiable levels of boost. Meanwhile, the engine is breathing out via a bespoke exhaust made not from your regular old titanium, but extra-lightweight titanium", according to Stuttgart"s presumably quite unhinged engineers. This alone saves 7kg from the GT2 RS"s arse-biased weight total compared to a 911 Turbo"s pipes, and turns up the volume too.Is it the fastest 911 of all time? Well, Porsche"s claimed 0-62mph in 2.8 seconds, which is a solitary tenth slower than a 911 Turbo S, which can deploy a four-wheel drive traction advantage at launch. Still, 2.8 isn"t slow, is it? It"s ahead of McLaren 720S pace, for instance. And flat out, the new GT2 RS will crack 211mph, knocking the old 997-gen GT2 RS off its 205mph perch and confirming yes indeed, this is the 911 speed king.
Date written: 30 Jun 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8335