Porsche’s GT 3 RS sets the bar when it comes to bringing the rawness of a racecar to the road. In fact, Chris Harris even owns one himself. That hasn’t stopped their neighborhood rivals from bringing the heat with the Mercedes’ C63 AMG Black and BMW’s M3 GTS.

While I was going through my DVR last night, I stumbled across an episode of “Sons of Guns” where the guys modify a Porsche Cayenne for a Russian billionaire, with “security concerns.” International Armoring Coroporation had already bullet-proofed it, but the client also wanted it to have some offensive capabilities.

The Corvette and the Porsche might both be world-class sports cars, but the engineers who designed them couldn’t have attacked the problem more differently. One the one hand, we have a pure expression of American grunt. One the other, there’s a manifestation of German precision. As Angus Mackenzie says at the beginning of this clip, these machines appeal to guys at the polar opposite of the sports car spectrum.

Lime green is normally a color reserved for obnoxiously self conscious supercars (I’m looking at you Lamborghini), which might be why they’ve decided to dress the new Cayenne GTS in a radioactive haze. With 420 hp and zero to 60 time of 5.4 seconds, the king of sporty SUVS definitely has enough heat to back up that outrageous paint job.

Unlike a certain other video I posted about the Boxster, this video is actually in English–British English even!–so I can understand it! Brilliant! Anyway, I’ve always thought the characterization of the Boxster as a “hairdressers car” was unfair. Like the similarly maligned MX5, I think most people who make that argument don’t much about cars.

Fans of Stuttgart’s handiwork would probably rather see GT3 Cup Cars ripping around a track rather than parked on one. But this video is still cool. Apparently it took almost 180 people 23 hours to get the 48 weapons-grade GT3 Cup cars into proper formation. I can’t get over how the finished product mirrors Porsche’s font.

This is a great recap of this year’s season opener at Sebring, and an awesome introduction if you’re not familiar with the Porsche IMSA GT3 Cup. It’s the largest single-make series in the States, and it’s kind of like the American Le Mans Series’ farm league, allowing drivers a chance to sharpen their skills before jumping to the big show.