From the December 2023 issue of Car and Driver.
0–150–0 mph: 24.4 seconds
Base: $287,380 | As-Tested: $301,420
Power and Weight: 518 hp • 3207 lb • 6.2 lb/hp
Tires: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R Connect; F: 275/35ZR-20 (102Y) N0, R: 335/30ZR-21 (109Y) N0
Brakes, F/R: 16.1-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc/ 15.0-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc
The GT3 RS wasn’t the quickest car of the test, but it sure sounded like it. When the GT3 RS headed for the starting line—pausing for a launch-control start or two to warm up the tires—airport workers lined up at the fence to watch. It was always a worthy spectacle, the GT3 chattering at 6500 rpm before shrieking off the line and kissing 9000 rpm while sounding like the devil’s dirt bike. Unlike the Cadillac’s multifaceted, adjustable launch control, the GT3 RS’s is unwilling to learn and unable to be adjusted (perhaps that’s a window into differing corporate philosophies). Just easing onto the throttle without launch control was about as quick on the less grippy Oscoda surface. Despite active aerodynamics that switch to a low-downforce mode when the GT3 is pointing straight and accelerating, the Porsche was slower to 150 mph than both the GT Speed and the Blackwing—which, we know, is a ridiculous thing to point out about a car that is, after all, powered by a naturally aspirated six-cylinder.
When it’s time to hit the brakes, the GT3 RS practically garrotes its driver with the seatbelt, stopping in 5.2 seconds and 514 feet. The brakes grab so hard that it’s disorienting— you think you must be stopped, but then the clock is still running for another second or so, your frame of reference for deceleration utterly scrambled.
Imagine these brakes with the 911 Turbo’s engine. . . . Hey, we think we might be onto something there. Maybe it could be called “GT2 RS.” If you get something like that together, Porsche, let us know. We might not wait 25 years to do this again.
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Ezra Dyer is a Car and Driver senior editor and columnist. He’s now based in North Carolina but still remembers how to turn right. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and once drove 206 mph. Those facts are mutually exclusive.
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