Re: 991.2 GT3
Whoopsy:nberry:Nick, excellent summary.
However, your approach is geared more to performance parameters rather than business considerations. The Porsche GT line up is a huge money maker. There is no need to turn them into Turbo cars and compromise the sales of those cars. Despite the success of Ferrari and McLaren of their turbo cars, we must keep in mind they are small manufacturers and don't have the numbers to meet emission standards. They had to do turbo their cars. Porsche doesn't need to do that with the GT cars. A none aspirated car is unique, in demand and delivers on performance. Why give up that advantage with future models?
I might add that I have owned Turbo cars and now own one. They just do not provide the excitement of NA GT cars.
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No, I did consider the business case too. 1 in 6 car Porsche sells is a 911, of those, perhaps 10% are the GT cars. Not quite big volume, but not tiny either.
As I said, going forward for at least 2017, Porsche will have 2 GT products, GT3 and GT2RS. Who knows, there might even be a GT version of the 718. These cars will more than make up for the volume from the lack of GT3RS. Not every GT buyer is a 918 owner who buys everything. Normal buyers pick and choose what they want.
They are not short on product offerings that's for sure.
all true but i am hearing of a special GT3RS very- limited edition, as send off of the 991.