Something that blew our mind with the ‘base’ car was its grip. (Except ex-editor Tim Robson, who voted the AMG GT S ahead of it, but no-one’s infallible.) When so many cars have a great engine, or a great chassis, or great steering, but rarely all of them at once, it seemed the 911 GT3 did – its howling flat-six nat-atmo engine and sweet-handling chassis wooing all present. Last year we were blown away by the 991 911 GT3 such that, in our cross-country 11-car shootout in the Victorian alps, it pipped Mercedes-AMG’s stonking new GT S hero coupe to become our reigning Performance Car of the Year. ![]() We weren’t sure what to expect of this car. And in the city it can’t help but look permanently lost, like one could pull up next to you at any moment, wind its window down, the befuddled driver enquiring which way to the nearest racetrack. Headlights on or off, the 911 GT3 RS magnetically attracts eyeballs everywhere it goes in its ($5990 extra) Lava Orange paintjob. Though the conditions for our test were mostly cloudy there was never any risk of us being missed. In other words, for our maiden blast on Aussie soil we should have taken Porsche’s much-hyped new 991 911 GT3 RS north to Sydney rather than east from Melbourne towards the mountains, covering what we thought could be a meteorologically meaningful distance in a machine more than capable of outrunning the weather. They wouldn’t make very good fortune tellers but the Bureau of Meteorology has some excellent records which show that, in the last 160-odd years, those closest to the tropics have received 1164 median millimetres every year, the southerners 644mm.īut the real clincher is Sydney’s 103.9 average annual “clear” days to Melbourne’s comparatively abysmal 48.6, and while we have cherry-picked sexy-looking statistics here, rainfall aside the general data does attest to Melbourne being a colder and cloudier place. And I’m just glad it has a demister.Ĭontrary to popular ridicule, and the experience of those living in Melbourne, it rains nearly twice as much in Sydney each year. ![]() A dry-sump flat-six that can rev to 8800rpm, a lofty rear wing that contributes 224kg of downforce at 300km/h and semi-slick tyres more or less pinched off the 918 Spyder hypercar.
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