February 9, 2025

The anti-dive impact of that entrance suspension is kind of noticeable below braking, and in both Regular or Sport mode, the damper settings are well-calibrated for bumpy again roads. It is a supple experience, if not fairly a magic carpet. On the freeway, the Touring cruises effectively, though the engine can begin to sound somewhat droning at a continuing rpm. However the freeway shouldn’t be what the GT3 is optimized for.


A green Porsche 911 GT3 parked next to what looks like it might be a castle.

The GT3 Touring ditches the gooseneck rear wing for an energetic rear spoiler, like lesser 992-generation 911s.

Jonathan Gitlin


A green Porsche 911 GT3 drives away from the camera

I do not find out about you, however I feel the automobile appears to be like so much higher when the energetic spoiler is within the down place.

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On windy mountain roads, once more in Regular or Sport, the automobile comes alive. Second and third gears are excellent for these situations, permitting you to maintain the automobile inside its energy band. And boy, does it sound good because it howls between 7,000 and 9,000 rpm. Porsche’s naturally aspirated flat-sixes have a tough edge to them—the 911 RSR was all the time the loudest race automobile within the pack—and the GT3 isn’t any exception. Even with the sports activities exhaust in fruity mode, there’s little of the pops, bangs, and crackles you would possibly hear in different sports activities vehicles, however the drama comes from the 9000 rpm redline.

Porsche requested us to maintain traction management and ESC enabled throughout our drive—there are one-touch buttons to disable them—and given the muddy and dusty state of the roads, this was a smart concept. (The area was beset by extreme flooding lately, and there was loads of proof of that on the route.) Even with TC on, the rear wheels would break traction in the event you have been injudicious with the throttle, and presumably that may be the identical within the moist. However it’s very simple to catch, even in case you are solely of average driving potential, like your humble correspondent.

After lunch, it was time to attempt the winged automobile, this time on the confines of the Ricardo Torno circuit simply exterior the town. On observe, the dealing with was very impartial round many of the corners, with some understeer by way of the very gradual flip 2. Whereas a low curb weight and greater than 500 hp made for a really quick accelerating automobile, the braking efficiency was in all probability much more spectacular, permitting you to face on the pedal and shed velocity with no fade and little disturbance to the physique management. Once more, I’m no driving god, however the GT3 was immensely flattering on observe, and in contrast to a lot older 911s, it will not attempt to swap ends on you when trail-braking or the like.