Month: March 2021
“Still purposeful rather than overt here, the GT3 Gen2 is arguably peak GT3 for those wanting a discreet road and track weapon.”
GT Purely Porsche
“Yet it was the 996 that provided the surprise of the day…But the shocker is that, on those roads, it was at least as much fun as the 997. The performance and grip differential were unimportant. What mattered more was the way it would dart into corners on its stiff springs and adjust its stance so readily according to the throttle position.”
“Porsche engineers will now admit that the first GT3’s 360bhp was more like 355 and the Gen 2 car’s 375bhp was closer to 390, so despite putting on 30kg we should feel quite a hike in performance terms. We do. We really, really do. The Gen 2 feels so much faster, and all that work on the drive-by-wire system paid off, because the way the engine responds in the mid-range is frankly astonishing. “
Jethro Bovingdon, Evo
Evo group test of GT3s (996 mk 1 and 2, 997 gen 1 and gen 2) from 2013
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