FWIW, I don't believe anyone said the RS looks horrible. What is being said that the style of the RS is designed for track work and not street presence. It would be like driving a NASCAR car on a public street as a DD. Not cool and downright silly.
We are all enthusiasts. Expressing one view is perfectly fine. Some consider posting negative comments on a thread dedicated to one specific car which tons of enthusiasts consult is trolling. Try doing the same on GT3 threads :)
So i somehow agree with parts of your comments but the later part is untrue. Comments refer to the outright look of the car not the fact it is designed for the track versus street. We may not be focusing on the same comments
Anyways, not a big deal. As you say "not cool and downright silly" comments by some.
For some reason Ferrari has managed to do away with big wings yet keep the down force. Porsche on the other hand is sticking to the picnic table approach.
Perhaps they are going with tradition where the big wing is part of the package?
I went for one BECAUSE of the big wing. I like the look, it looks mean and purposeful and balance out the aggressive front fenders. Without the wing it might as well look like any other 911s outside of the Turbo/Turbo S.
Jul 1, 2015 5:33:12 AM
Whoopsy:For some reason Ferrari has managed to do away with big wings yet keep the down force. Porsche on the other hand is sticking to the picnic table approach.
Perhaps they are going with tradition where the big wing is part of the package?
I went for one BECAUSE of the big wing. I like the look, it looks mean and purposeful and balance out the aggressive front fenders. Without the wing it might as well look like any other 911s outside of the Turbo/Turbo S.
Right...
I don't like too much some kind of cars without a wing...for me it seems it lack something.
For example i don't like the R8 for that,nor too much 360/458/488 for the same reason...i think is a personal thing.
In my mind i can't imagine a 911 Turbo without a wing,and this GT3 RS finally have the wing that it needs.
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Jul 1, 2015 7:16:39 AM
Whoopsy:For some reason Ferrari has managed to do away with big wings yet keep the down force. Porsche on the other hand is sticking to the picnic table approach.
In order to have downforce without a wing, you need to rely on an underneath diffuser that rises at the back of the car (inverted airfoil). The engine of a 911 is in the way for this to be done properly, so there is not really a non-picnic table solution that works as well. For its mid-engined models, there is no such excuse.
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watt:Guys,
objectively ---
its a great car but the reality is the wing is stupidly ricer. So is the gt3 wing. If porsche could finish the cars without the ricer wings I would be happier. And please recall I own the current gt3 and have ricer gt4 inbound
cheers
Not sure ricer is the correct term. Ricer is a term for things added to a car that serve no real purpose, other than to make it look like it goes faster.
The wings added to GT3 and GT3RS genuinely add downforce so have a real purpose. A ricer is trying to make their car look like a GT3RS - which is the real thing!
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Jul 1, 2015 2:53:05 PM
Adam2S:watt:Guys,
objectively ---
its a great car but the reality is the wing is stupidly ricer. So is the gt3 wing. If porsche could finish the cars without the ricer wings I would be happier. And please recall I own the current gt3 and have ricer gt4 inbound
cheers
Not sure ricer is the correct term. Ricer is a term for things added to a car that serve no real purpose, other than to make it look like it goes faster.
The wings added to GT3 and GT3RS genuinely add downforce so have a real purpose. A ricer is trying to make their car look like a GT3RS - which is the real thing!
Adam, none of us claimed the RS is a ricer. All we said that it had a look of a ricer. In defense of the GT3, its wing looks like a formed part of the styling. The RS wing has metal brackets holding it which appear to be put on as an after thought. Otherwise, I agree the RS looks aggressive.
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nberry:Adam2S:watt:Guys,
objectively ---
its a great car but the reality is the wing is stupidly ricer. So is the gt3 wing. If porsche could finish the cars without the ricer wings I would be happier. And please recall I own the current gt3 and have ricer gt4 inbound
cheers
Not sure ricer is the correct term. Ricer is a term for things added to a car that serve no real purpose, other than to make it look like it goes faster.
The wings added to GT3 and GT3RS genuinely add downforce so have a real purpose. A ricer is trying to make their car look like a GT3RS - which is the real thing!
Adam, none of us claimed the RS is a ricer. All we said that it had a look of a ricer. In defense of the GT3, its wing looks like a formed part of the styling. The RS wing has metal brackets holding it which appear to be put on as an after thought. Otherwise, I agree the RS looks aggressive.
Porsche was the producer of the ORIGINAL winged and decaled foreign sports car ( the now 43 yr old Carrera RS 2.7 ) , so the Japanese -car tuners have been basically building HOMAGES to it for the past 35 + years ...." ricer " was a racist term for this Asian car tuning community ( which also started in Southern California due to all the specialty machine and fab speed shops there ) given by the whites - dominated American muscle car / hot rod tuning community they shard the same industrial parks with , from which most of the first " ricer " tuning company founders came .
Wings and decals , of course , had been done well before Porsche by American OEM muscle car models in the late 1960s as their own street homages to the decal splattered NASCAR -type sedan based racers
Adam2S:Below is full pantone range for how Lava Orange looks in different lighting conditions!
the Lava Orange GT3RS looks salmony , not orangy , on the various Goodwood FOS hillclimb videos I have watched , varying from numbers 24-26 depending on light angle on the color scale
nberry said:
Adam, none of us claimed the RS is a ricer. All we said that it had a look of a ricer. In defense of the GT3, its wing looks like a formed part of the styling. The RS wing has metal brackets holding it which appear to be put on as an after thought. Otherwise, I agree the RS looks aggressive.
I think you may have missed the point I was getting at, a ricer car (MKW's more detailed explanation aside) is a term for a car that is trying to look like something more sporty than it is. So the GT3RS is the very car ricer cars are trying to look like, so it cannot either be, or look like a ricer itself.
If it looked like a ricer, that would therefore mean it looked like a car which was trying to look like a real performance/track car, when in fact it really is a performance/track car.
If it didn't look like a ricer then ricer cars wouldn't look the way they do, as they would be failing to copy their very role model!
Do you get my drift....
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I am very familiar with the Ricer term. Through the years it has morph into describing a car that appears to have add ons to improve performance. That is what ricers did in the past. The RS wing looks like an add on to improve performance. Thus, it looks like a ricer. Caprice?
A GT3 has a wing but it is part of the design of the car just as the TT wing is.
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nberry:Adam, when did the UK legalize marijuana?
I am very familiar with the Ricer term. Through the years it has morph into describing a car that appears to have add ons to improve performance. That is what ricers did in the past. The RS wing looks like an add on to improve performance. Thus, it looks like a ricer. Caprice?
A GT3 has a wing but it is part of the design of the car just as the TT wing is.
Nick, how many other languages beside Italian do you not speak?
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fritz:nberry:Adam, when did the UK legalize marijuana?
I am very familiar with the Ricer term. Through the years it has morph into describing a car that appears to have add ons to improve performance. That is what ricers did in the past. The RS wing looks like an add on to improve performance. Thus, it looks like a ricer. Caprice?
A GT3 has a wing but it is part of the design of the car just as the TT wing is.
Nick, how many other languages beside Italian do you not speak?
Can't. Stop. Laughing.
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To add some personal experiences - drive a Supperleggera above 250 km/h and you can feel how horribly light the front is - same even goes for the MP4 although a bit better - any Station wagon etc - BUT there is no comparison to high Speed stability of a GT2,3 or RS - I drove them multiple times around 300 km/h and NO car ever gave me a higher confidence/comfort Level (also not the SLS) than those cars - People like RC who drive frequently on German Highways (see his Mustang experience) will surely agree with me that a proper Aeropackage makes huge sense - These are by far not design Gimmicks - on models like the RS those effects start way earlier due to their size ! makes all perfect sense
BjoernB:To add some personal experiences - drive a Supperleggera above 250 km/h and you can feel how horribly light the front is - same even goes for the MP4 although a bit better - any Station wagon etc - BUT there is no comparison to high Speed stability of a GT2,3 or RS - I drove them multiple times around 300 km/h and NO car ever gave me a higher confidence/comfort Level (also not the SLS) than those cars - People like RC who drive frequently on German Highways (see his Mustang experience) will surely agree with me that a proper Aeropackage makes huge sense - These are by far not design Gimmicks - on models like the RS those effects start way earlier due to their size ! makes all perfect sense
sure, totally agreed on the aero package. the issue is just with the esthetics of the porsche version of it. i do even agree that ferrari can easily add an effective diffuser instead of an ugly rear wing because of the mid engined construction (note that downforce of the 488 beats the GT3RS) but still, while the GT3 design is cohesive the GT3RS design is not.
cheers peter
ps: the 458 coupe feels totally planted at 300km/h. i am surprised that the MP4 does not.
The shape of 911 vs 488 is so different that the way of creating downforce cannot be compared in my opinion plus I cannot believe that a 488 can create the numbers a 991RS has - I would pet a supertest of SA would prove that. (let's see) Anyhow - active aero is added fast and I am sure we will see very interesting stuff in the times to come - once to reduce drag (fuel) and by a button to increase downforce when needed. (see TTS front)
Ferrari press release: .....Downforce increases to 325 kg at 250 km/h, thanks in part to active aerodynamic devices which reduce drag whilst simultaneously generating downforce when required.
some AP interview: GT3 RS 991 has more than doubled the downforce (relative the the GT3 RS 997, with 350kg at 300kph.
and since downforce grows quadratically with velocity .....go figure.
peter