Unless you have plans to go racing, the purchase of a highly developed sports car constructed primarily to satisfy motorsports homologation regulations is not a purely logical process. The things that make cars fast on the track require certain compromises on the road. There are noise and vibration levels, for example, along with ride quality and control effort.But in the case of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, emotion and logic come together to make an unassailable case. The RS (German for rennsport, “racing sportâ€) is a distillation of all the things that have made the 911 a much-sought-after sports car through the ages, and that two-letter appellation evokes all the pride and nostalgia of Porsche racing cars of the early ’70s. The RS graphic on the car’s side is in the same typeface as the one found on 2.7-liter RS 911s from 1973, and that’s no coincidence. Like that car, the RS was developed with a view to going racing. (It differs from standard GT3s in having wider rear bodywork like that used on the Carrera 4.) Also like the early RSs, this model is available in optional high-visibility tree-frog-green paint, as well as what Porsche calls special Orange.
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