Watch This Classic Carrera 911 RS Execute One Smooth Parking Garage Exit

By Brett Foote - May 17, 2021

The incredibly non-dramatic and skillful piece of driving is as smooth as the Porsche Carrera 911 RS doing it.

The Porsche Carrera 911 RS 2.7 and 3.0 models are some of the most beloved in the automaker’s history, not to mention some of the more coveted and expensive ones. So when we come across an RS these days, it’s typically a masterfully restored example being put up for sale or sitting on the pristinely trimmed premises of a fine car show somewhere sunny. However, that isn’t the case with the Carrera 911 RS in this particular video from Car Lifestyle.

The beautiful blue RS in this clip is exiting an underground parking garage, but not in some normal fashion. No, befitting of the factory-built race car for the street, it’s executing a perfect drift up the curvy exit ramp, without even emitting a drop of smoke from the car’s tires. The whole thing is amazingly smooth, especially when set to the appropriate background music – soulful crooner Sade’s classic hit, Smooth Operator.

You have to hand it to the driver here for pulling off such a beautiful act of heresy, particularly when these cars are selling for six figures and up these days. Of course, it could be a masterfully done clone of some sort, but we’ll just go ahead and assume it isn’t for the sake of optics. Regardless, as much as we enjoy the background music, we’d much prefer to hear it sing its air-cooled, flat-six song.

The comments section also provides some interesting takes on the video, most of which reference scenes from Fast & Furious movies, and even Carlos Sainz, a former rally driver turned vintage rally driver who has been known to drive an old 911 or two, and his brother, Antonio Saintz, who piloted a Carrera 911 RS 3.0 finished in the very same color as this one.

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Regardless, we have a hard time connecting this car’s smooth, smokeless display against anything from the violent world of racing, nor the fictional world where cars have 30-some-speed manual transmissions. Instead, we liken this clip to a well-oiled symphony, one that executes its mission with perfect, scalpel-like precision.