You must be an only child or have nothing to do with your day if your taking the time to throw in a comment like that in this discussion.

Are you 4, or 40?

 

+1 vote for direct injection. It is the future since laws want cars more efficient and cleaner.

The fact that Porsche didn't adopt it is due to their unwillingness to start over again and make a new engine when they have the engine with the GT1 derived block to work with.

Guys, we all love porsche but keep in mind that R&D costs and when you don't need to change a succesfull recipy, you just don't.

 

I think you want a response other than Porsche is trying to rape you, but that's the true motive. They should have grown a pair and put the Carrera S engine (355 hp) in the Carrera & the 380 hp X51 option in the Carrera S, but they want to push you to paying that extra $12000 for "better technology." As if dropping $85K wasn't enough. The lineup should have looked like this :

Boxster S/Cayman S : 325 hp
Carrera : 355 hp
Carrera S : 381 hp

Instead competitors get massive 50-100 hp boosts, and the Carrera gets 5 hp. That's why I have no remorse from Porsche when they are giving $6K-$8K discounts on Carreras.

 

I think RS driver/buyers will tend to be better than the average 911 buyer but that will not make them Walter Rohrl.

 

What crazy comments on this thread. Unless Wolf Henzler or Patrick Long recently joined 6speed, no member that is an active poster that I am aware of can get 10/10ths out of a GT3RS (or a 987 Boxster S for that matter). I agree that weight reduction is smarter and more cost effective way to increase the HP/Weight ratio on a 997 GT3 RS. As always, and I've learned this the hard way, spend your money on coaching and safety 1st and "go-fast parts" later (if you're a new Porsche owner and the 997 GT3 RS is your 1st car, much later).

As far as the cracks on Porsche and their "old" technology, "Huh?". Everyone knows Porsche typically understates that all important poser stat we love known as the 0-60 time. HP is probably understated as well.

I still haven't driven a car that puts all the parts together as well as Porsche. Do you guys realize that the 997 TT and GT3 cars are true supercars (that you can drive to work everyday without knowing the tow truck drivers on a 1st name basis)?

I am putting the deposit down now on the 6speeder that will help Porsche take engineering to the next level when comes to normally-aspirated engines.
Poor German Fools don't realize how smart we are here in America. Imagine how good the cupholders can be in the future!

 

How is technology reflected in 0-60 times and acceleration? Also, how advanced do you think that the technology of modern cars is compared to other fields of engineering? Look at ABS, it existed 20 years ago on airplanes before it was first utilised on cars. Same goes with turbocharging, chemical-forced induction and several other tecnologies that make the car enthusiasts gape in awe when they first see them on a car.

You really need to realise that the car, is first of all a product for Porsche. That they have to sell not only to impress the world but also make some money. The only cars Porsche made with the purpose of showing what they were capable of doing was the 959 and the Carrera GT. The first, is claimed to have costed quite a lot of money to porsche, more than they ever made from selling it but it was made in order to please the loyal customers.

No matter how good some of us are behind the steering wheel, most of us are succesfull in our jobs in order to be able to afford a Porsche. And some of us practice engineering for a living. Once you see the amazing progress in our field, you will realise that cars are pretty simple and that making a good car is more about tool utilization rather than a whole new scientific approach.

Building an engine with Direct injection requires R&D. The amount of GT3 cars and the price they are sold for may or may not justify paying the cost of R&D. So as long as they can get the job done with simpler and more cost effective methods, they stick to them. If they didn't, you would see every car equiped with ceramic clutches, every engine equiped with dry sump, every chassis made of aluminum etc. But then a boxster would cost 100k to produce...

It's not only car industry that works this way. Gold is the best metal u can use to to transfer electric signal, still your phone line is made from copper...

 

Post numbers 30 and 35. . . . completely in agreement.

 

LOL @ electronic direct injection and mechanical direct injection.... haha.. sounds like RR4 took the voodoo engineering class...

 

Thanks no better said..the GT3 is perfect in every way!

 

Roger that!

 

lol i think you meant silver.

 

I bet there are a considerable amount of RS buyers who will never track the car....

 

It already has titanium rods, as does the GT3 and 996 GT3.