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gradyex said:
Wow! What a great comparison! Thanks for posting!!! +100+
You're welcome. I thought it would worth posting it's not everyday that you see those 4 cars compared in depth. Loved most of what they said about the Turbo.
"Now that's what you call grunt and traction. Zero to 30 in the Turbo hurts your back. Dents the pride of the GT3 RS drivers too. Then all hell breaks loose. Just look at the 0-60 time" (3.6 seconds 6-speed)
"Gloves off the RS is quicket to 100 then the regular GT3. The Margin isnt great but that doesn't matter. By 130mph the GT3 claws time back thanks to the smaller rear wing . But the difference between cars that run 8.4 and 9.6 seconds to 100 mph is vast..The Turbo just disappears. By 150mph the gap is 4.2 seconds, that's good night Vienna in spirit terms. And we've not touched on the in-gear times yet"
IN-GEAR 5TH:
"Being 2.2 seconds faster here is plain rude. And if you think the Turbo shorter gearing makes the comparsion un-fair the Turbo is 0.7 seconds faster in 6th. And that cog's good for well over 190mph"
"Im conservative about 911 Turbo's too. I put them in a seperate category to the RS breed as everyone rightly should. I never got to love the 993 Turbo or the 996 Turbo but like the 964 a lot. The 997 version however, blew me away as soon as I drove it. I've done lots of miles in them - over 3000 - and haven't been bored for a minute. Many cars are faster on paper but on the road it is right up there with the fastest cars ever made and not just because of it's Thor of A to B driving. It feels Santa Pod fast too."
"Finally we come to the Turbo, Harris warns me of it's speed which seems strange as he didn't say anything when I was climbing into the RS."
"I don't remember much of the Turbo's acceleration runs. Brutal launch, massive speed, lots of swearing when we read out the times. So fast were in it's gear figures that I was constantly questioning what I was scribbling down on the timing sheet. The word "ridiculous" was uttered more than once. Of course we knew the Turbo would be epically fast but there's still something wonderful about realising the car you're sitting in just powered from 80-100mph in 2.4 seconds. And that in 23 seconds dead it took you from a standstill to 160mph. I can't ignore the Turbo speed around the track either especially given that it wears regular rubber as opposed to the trick cup tires of the GT3's. Despite having 4 wheel drive it was also the most willing to oversteer, which it pretty much did through every single corner if you wanted it to. In fact once the rubber was hot it took just the merest trailing of throttle on corner entry to get the tail swinging and then it was simply a case of pouring in the power and measuring out the slide."
"In every meanigful and every pointless measure of speed the Turbo crushes the fastest two- wheeled drive 997 - that being the RS. It's electronically controlled 4 wheel drive system juggles torque and traction to perfection bringing an .05 second advantage from rest to 30mph. Thats at eternity at this level. By 60mph it is 0.80 seconds clear with a faintly silly 3.6 second run and then humbles the other so called performance Porsche's with a 0-100mph time of 8.4 seconds, fully 1.3 seconds faster than the RS and so far ahead of the other two (GT3/997 S) they're left gasping in it's exhaust gases. At the 150mph mark the Turbo has extended the gap to 4.2 seconds. Job done. Not so fast though the Turbo then leans over the bloodied bodies of its in house up-start rivals and sprinkles some added humiliation. The in-gear times are devastating. 30-50mph is 0.5 seconds faster in the Turbo than any other car here and each increment is swatted in under two-seconds. I don't think I've figured capable of such a feat. Matters become gradually worse for the naturally aspirated cars as the Turbo varible vanes it's way to some truely potty numbers all of which trounce the RS and culminate in a 50-70mph time in fifth just 0.2 seconds slower than the RS can manage in third."
.."you cant step away from the Turbo without feeling like you have just experienced one of the quickest road cars in history. That engine is such a violent powerhouse that you struggle to get your head around some of the times the VBOX spit out."