TG's big road test: the Porsche 911 GT3 RS - Top Gear (blog)
As I write this, the GT3 RS is parked outside my window. I got home at 3am this morning, having driven 700 miles in two days all over north Wales. It pains me mightily to admit it, but I misjudged the GT3 RS when I first drove it on its launch in Germany. “I can’t help thinking it’s a bit of a shame you have to be going so fast to get your kicks,” I wrote. It felt like that in Germany because on smooth roads the car never seemed to have to work anything like as hard as the driver, and on track… well, as you can read on further on, that was a different matter. Now I’m in Wales, on the same roads I took the standard GT3 to almost exactly two years ago. Partly to play spot the difference, partly because the roads around Bala are just spectacular. The new GT3 RS is only available, like the GT3, with a PDK gearbox. It goes a long way to convincing you that you could live with the GT3 RS as an everyday car. Your spine would hunch into the seats, you’d never hear Chris Evans over the white noise of road roar and you’d flinch at every cat’s eye. Constricted, deaf and numbed, you’d suffer a slow slide into masochism and lose sight of why this car is so great. The plastic windows, sticker-for-a-badge and magnesium roof panel (30 per cent lighter than aluminium). Source: www.topgear.com
