Test Ride with Porsche 991 GT3 RS 2018

There’s a danger of being overcome of the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS. For many years the default choice for fans of hardcore road and trackday cars, successive generations of Weissach-Flacht’s most celebrated sportscar have defined the genre and dominated all vehicle dynamics tests. Much to the dismay of rival car makers, Porsche has not sat on its laurels: the evidence being the scant three years between the introduction of the first 991-generation GT3 RS – a car which moved the game on in every respect – and the arrival of this, the second 991-generation GT3 RS.

Let's have a look on this lime green monster on some secluded french rural roads between Colmar an nowhere...

For Tec(h)ies only:

Flat 6, 3.996 ccm
520 HP @ 8.250 1/min
470 Nm @ 6.000 1/min
9.000 1/min max. rpm
compression ratio 13.3 : 1
weigth unladen 1.430 kg (DIN)
Average consumption of the test weekend: 12.6 l/100 km (98 ROZ)

Further details see here.

Test route around the Munster Valley (Alsace, France)

City gate of Turckheim (Alsace)

Pittoresque village - Niedermorschwihr near Colmar

Lac Noire (Black Lake) with dam

View from the mountain top on Lac Blanc (White Lake)

Historic monastery of St. Odile near Strasbourg

Engine Sound while accelerating - Porsche 911 GT3 RS 2018

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