Often, automotive battles in the style of David and Goliath tend to stage tired duels between overweight muscle cars and anemic featherweights with predictable results. However, what happens when two talented drivers take similarly focused machines—albeit with their own advantages and disadvantages—to the track? In this instance, a heavier GT3 …
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Onboard a Manually-Shifted 991.1 GT3 RS
For those who don't appreciate the precision, unfathomable shift speed, and ease of PDK, there is the option of swapping a 911R gearbox into a 991 GT3 RS. Of course, the 991.2 GT3 is available with a stick-and-clutch option soon, but some people are just plain impatient. One of those restless souls is Rob Janev, a Porschephile irked by the fact …
Continue to the full articleHow to Spin Donuts in a PDK-Equipped GT3
Though the 991 GT3 is a surgical scalpel when it needs to be, it can also play the hooligan. If the owner feels some tire smoke might add to the ambiance, he can follow these simple instructions on how to use all 475 horsepower to draw long, black stripes on the pavement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDis40oZurU It's fairly intuitive, and …
Continue to the full article911 GT3 with Touring Package Debuts at IAA
With a rear roll-bar, fixed back seats and an audacious rear wing, the GT3 is an extremely focused tool. The newest addition to the lineup, the new GT3 Touring Package, couples the aggressive chassis and 500 horsepower naturally aspirated powerplant to a more civilized interior and understated rear wing. The Touring Package recalls the optional …
Continue to the full articleCross Country in a GT3: 9 Day-4856.6 miles-2 countries-19 US States-211 gallons of fuel-1 speeding ticket
What started as an idea quickly turned to reality when artist Nic Hunziker located a donor GT3 for his "Art Car" project. Over the last 9 days Nic, along with co-pilot and FLATSIXES.com contributor Brett Sloan, drove the newly acquired 996 GT3 from Nova Scotia back to L.A. Along the way they covered: 9 Days 4856.6 Miles 2 Countries 19 US …
Continue to the full articleHUNZIKER ART CAR: NOVA SCOTIA TO CALIFORNIA IN A GT3 DAYS 7 & 8
Last month we introduced you to Nic Hunziker's new "Art Car" project where he'll be bartering art in order to build what he calls "the missing link between the 996.1 GT3 and the 996.2 GT3 RS" a 1999 GT3R Strassenversion. If you're not yet familiar with the project you can check out our original post or head over to the project's website for even …
Continue to the full articleHunziker Art Car: Nova Scotia to California in a GT3 Days 5 & 6
Last month we introduced you to Nic Hunziker's new "Art Car" project where he'll be bartering art in order to build what he calls "the missing link between the 996.1 GT3 and the 996.2 GT3 RS" a 1999 GT3R Strassenversion. If you're not yet familiar with the project you can check out our original post or head over to the project's website for even …
Continue to the full articleThe Hunziker Art Car Project: Bartering Art for a Porsche
With artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Sandro Chia and Jeff Koons having painted or designed cars for BMW, it's likely they are the most famous car marque known for art cars. However, Porsche is no stranger to them either. Officially, Porsche put a toe in the water of art cars with their exhibition of 24 painted GT2 bonnets at their Museum in …
Continue to the full articleProject Boxster Clubsport: Part 21 – Driving Impressions
We've been wrenching on "Project Boxster Clubsport" for quite a while now, and it just keeps getting better. We purchased the Porsche for a song, and have been slowly making some moves to drop the car's weight and add a little more fun. We're really happy with where this Boxster ended up, even though there were some fits and starts along the …
Continue to the full articleWatch the 911 GT3 Crush its Nurburgring Record by 12+ Seconds
It wasn't even two months ago that Porsche's GT Department head, Andreas Preuninger, mentioned how he and his team were no longer focused on lap-times. "We are taking a lot of care about the driving emotion," said Preuninger, in an interview with Road & Track. "Not so much stubbornly, seriously, German-ly chasing lap time, lap time, lap time," …
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