Weekday Special: New Porsche Track Car – Except for the US

Rear window of Porsche's upcoming GT3 RS shows off the factory roll cage
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The new GT3 RS is a continuation of the GT3 series of street-legal track-worthy 911s and will be released in October. The Porsche 911 GT3 RS features the same 3.6 liter 415 hp engine that the base GT3 has. The car is a lightweight version of the US legal GT3, shaving almost 45 pounds off of the already light GT3. It also features an adjustable wing and a full factory roll cage. Porsche shaved almost 45 pounds off of an already lightweight car and added a roll cage; that is impressive. It is likely that the roll cage is keeping the car from being imported into the US; the feds do not like to okay vehicles with roll cages.

The car comes with a lightened flywheel and a closer ratio transmission plus a fire extinguisher and racing seats. This is one heck of a weekend racer, for the very well healed. With a reported price of 94,280 British Pounds ($177,482) it makes for one expensive track car. Porsche has put a mini site on the web featuring this new car.

Hat Tip: the Autoblog