however it is still a 982 - that's the official Porsche designation.
The price of the track-only cars is quite something (136k EUR + VAT for the track-day car, or 167k +VAT for the motorsport one) so I wonder what this means for pricing of the new road car.
Shame that most people who want to buy and run one of the road cars won't even get a look in in terms of being able to spec and buy a new car to their own requirements as they will mainly be allocated to people who will sell them on straight away (and hence unlikely to be well specc'ed...)
Good they've kept a NA engine but it seems it's the same engine out of the old Carrera S as before. That's hugely disappointing. Surely it deserves a GT engine? Even if they used the gen.1 GT3 engine and box would have been better.
Hopefully of less interest to speculators with a regular engine - which has got to be a big plus :grin:
And, given how good the 991.1 3.8 actually is, I think this will be an amazing car.
The one thing I think they really need to have on the options list though is the front axle lift system. The very low and protruding lip on the 981 model is just too easy to bash and I'm guessing this will likely be carried over - albeit restyled a bit.
Suppose I should read the specs on the website first :floor:
So it is a new 6 speed PDK........probably makes sense.... with all that torque there is no need for an extra cog and you save weight.
But, in production terms i.e. costs...it seems a bit curious to have a new PDK unless they envisage using it for something else in the range or I am missing the point somewhere :dont know:
Race car was/is pdk. It's faster and a 6 speed as 7th not necessary. Previous race car was relatively slow in its class and was upgraded a few times during its life to keep up with the pack apparently.
I don't believe race car engine guarantees a Nasp road car at all. Clearly unlikely to use the GT3 engine else they would have and curiously the latest gt4 regulations have changed do not require manufacturers to use their road going engines anymore.