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Porsche 911GT2 RS == 0-60 in 3.4 secs.
Top Speed Car Reviews ^ | 12/02/2010 | Simona - blogger

Posted on 03/01/2011 5:27:20 PM PST by Loud Mime

"Let the drooling begin! Porsche unveiled today the official details on the most powerful street-legal model they have ever built. Limited to only 500 units, the new 911 GT2 RS will go on sale in USA starting this October so potential buyers may want to start standing in line now. Prices will start at 199,500 euro (or $253,000 at the current rates).

The new GT2 RS is a more powerful and lighter model compared to a standard GT2. Porsche managed to reduce the weight by 154 lb and upgrade the engine’s output with 90 HP (for a total of 620 HP). This makes the RS sprint from 0 to 62 mph in 3.5 seconds, 0 to 124 mph in just 9.8 seconds, and 0 to 186 mph in 28.9 seconds. Top speed is 205 mph. The sports car also delivers a power-to-weight ratio of 4.9 lb per horsepower and has a reported Nurburgring time of seven minutes and 18 seconds."

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My next door neighbor may be trading in his AMG Mercedes for this little puppy.

He was told that the car has gone 0-60 in less than 3.0 secs several times.

I figured we could use a fun thread today....

1 posted on 03/01/2011 5:27:24 PM PST by Loud Mime
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2 posted on 03/01/2011 5:29:34 PM PST by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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Diesel?........


3 posted on 03/01/2011 5:31:57 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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Too heavy. Drop 400 more pounds.


4 posted on 03/01/2011 5:32:40 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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Prices will start at 199,500 euro (or $253,000 at the current rates).

(or $263,000 at the current rates).

(or $273,000 at the current rates).

(or $293,000 at the current rates).

(or $323,000 at the current rates).

(or $353,000 at the current rates).

5 posted on 03/01/2011 5:34:58 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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6 posted on 03/01/2011 5:35:00 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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hope it runs on vegetable oil.... =.=


7 posted on 03/01/2011 5:35:47 PM PST by cranked
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There’s no street restrictions on automobile power per se (not that Obama couldn’t use that as a new busybody liberal rallying cause). It’s downright amazing to me that with catalytic converters and all the other junk that is needed to ensure that the exhaust is as harmless as elfen farts and does not leak a whiff of hydrocarbons anywhere else, a car can still do that.

Now what does this equal in G-forces?

And I’d like to see a pickup truck with the same prime mover in it. Due to shape it wouldn’t be as fast as the car, but it would still be one powerful hunk of pickup truck.


8 posted on 03/01/2011 5:35:48 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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"reduce the weight by 154 lb and upgrade the engine’s output with 90 HP"

To get the traction I'm ridin' the clutch,
My pressure plate's burnin' that machine's too much!


9 posted on 03/01/2011 5:36:16 PM PST by I see my hands (You can know the young posters by the desperate optimism in their posts.)
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Considering you could only really exercise it on a race track, it might make more economic sense to pick up a cast-off Nascar road race chassis and motor for 50 grand or so. Plus if you do lose it going into Canada corner @ Elhart, it’s much more likely you’d come out unmaimed.


10 posted on 03/01/2011 5:37:01 PM PST by nascarnation
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Where you get “Diesel” ??

Or maybe it is, but you only get the 0-60 in 3.whatever seconds once, by revving the engine to max then dropping in the clutch. Then you get to rebuild the transmission.


11 posted on 03/01/2011 5:38:00 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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This Porsche has a multi disc clutch. I think they stopped off at a dragstrip and checked out the Top Fuel Cars and throttled back a bit.


12 posted on 03/01/2011 5:40:25 PM PST by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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Street-legal in this case means a race care with a license plate.


13 posted on 03/01/2011 5:43:28 PM PST by umgud
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I once got to drive a Porsche from Nurnburg to the French border at 2 am on a weeknight. I stayed at 140 most of the time, and was passed by some faster Mercedes in the Spessarts.

There’s NOTHING like a Porsche.


14 posted on 03/01/2011 5:44:24 PM PST by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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Back in 1978 I paid $7,000 for a 1972 Porsche 911T. This was the entry level model. It had a 2.4 liter engine rated at around 130-140 hp if I remember correctly. Even with the modest horsepower, it was a quick car due to the curbweight being something like 2400lbs or thereabouts.

I think Porsche owners today would be horrified at how basic of a sportscar it was. It came with thin floormats that covered a corrugated steel floor and had an add-on AC system hung below the dash, which was in fact the factory AC system.

Porsches have gone way upmarket from where they used to be. At one time they were just fun to drive sportscars and, while they were expensive, they were still affordable for the regular guy if they wanted to work and save up for one.


15 posted on 03/01/2011 5:48:23 PM PST by Stevenc131
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I am trying to remember the car that did the Nurburgring sub 7 minutes. Ferrari 599XXX 6 min 58.16 sec Rafaelle DeSimone (Ferrari test driver) Front engine car too. Paganini Zonda R (looks awesome) 6:47.5 min Driver Marc Basseng The Zonda R has a V-12 putting out 739 bhp!
16 posted on 03/01/2011 5:50:53 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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yeppers, that was before the days of lawyers, government regulations and crash test dummies.


17 posted on 03/01/2011 5:59:47 PM PST by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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As a Porsche driver for more than 40 years....I’d rather have a Ferrari 458 Italia for about the same money.


18 posted on 03/01/2011 6:00:15 PM PST by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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Enjoy it man.

Way outta my league price-wise.

Thankfully God made the small block Chevy for poor guys like me.


19 posted on 03/01/2011 6:00:15 PM PST by nascarnation
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Oh how nice, you can gete a box of shoes in the trunk and that’s it. No golf clubs? No car.


20 posted on 03/01/2011 6:21:39 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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