The new 911 GT3 is the most important Porsche of all | Revelations with Jason Cammisa | Ep. 03

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Man Jason and Hagertys keep killing it with these videos.

This is video practically car porn at this point.

👍︎︎ 55 👤︎︎ u/mr_duong567 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

I see Jason Cammisa, I click.

👍︎︎ 87 👤︎︎ u/PrimarchMartorious 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

Holy shit! I'm so looking forward to my 992 GT3...

ITBs and double wishbones come to me.

👍︎︎ 60 👤︎︎ u/OyManu 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

Does the 911R have shorter gearing? On screen it looked much more fun during the track drive, and I think it's a combination of the sound and gearing.

👍︎︎ 17 👤︎︎ u/Fugaku 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

When 992 GT3 gets RSR front suspension, Can expect that Porsche would bring GT1 back in future.

Agree GT trim is most important for Porsche even GT1.

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/V8-Turbo-Hybrid 📅︎︎ Feb 19 2021 đź—«︎ replies

God damn that RS 4.0 sounds heavenly.

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/apandya277 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

Gotta be honest, as a below entry-level Porsche enthusiast, I get confused with the models u/JasonCammisa went over in this vid. But I was enthralled by the history lesson. Reminded me of why I love cars.

👍︎︎ 14 👤︎︎ u/SingaporeSlang 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies

This mans contents makes me hot

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/revivethecolour 📅︎︎ Feb 19 2021 đź—«︎ replies

Man that 997 RS 4.0 is something special. I want it bad.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/Lemantech 📅︎︎ Feb 18 2021 đź—«︎ replies
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I have some bad news on the eve of  the introduction of the new Porsche   911 GT3 (992). See, Porsche is not  in business to make 911s. Porsche,   like every other company in a capitalist  world, is in business to make money. Luckily for us porsche can still make money by  producing 911s. But — and here's some even more bad   news — the 911 is increasingly stuck between  the brand's promise of a pure sports car   and the economic reality of needing it to appeal  to the old men who have money to pay for them.   And those old men? They want luxury cars. Which  is why as the 911 edges nearer and nearer a   rear-engine Panamera coupe, it's the GT Models  that have gradually taken over as the 911's   image maker. Simultaneously the difference  between the standard 911 Carrera cars and the GT   cars has grown and grown and grown — and the  911 GT3 has grown to the point where it is   the single most important car in the entire  Porsche lineup. At least as far as I'm concerned. Let's get one thing straight:committees make  terrible cars. A committee made the Pontiac Aztek,   notable within GM for hitting all of its targets —  and on time, too! Well, targets and timelines don't   make a compelling product. It may be fun to  look at now but the Aztec cost GM millions.   On the flip side, almost all legendary cars  have been the work and vision of one person   who understood their market. I'm talking about  people like (Ettore) Bugatti, (Enzo) Ferrari, (Soichiro) Honda, Gordon Murray, and a beanpole of a German guy you've probably  never heard of named Andreas Preuninger.   Andy Preuninger runs the GT-Car division within  Porsche, and it's part of the motorsports   department. It's their job to take whatever  911 Porsche turns out, no matter how fat and full   of German "technological innovations" and turn it  back into the car that we all think of when we   think of 911s. That gap is growing larger and  larger. For the 992, Andy's team was able to ditch   the entire front strut suspension and replace it  with double wishbones. This is not a tuning change! This is a wholesale rethink of the front end of  a Porsche 911 and by the way it's something we've   never seen before. You'll see this at the back  end of a car — for example Volkswagen Jetta. The   cheap versions get a torsion-beam rear suspension  the more expensive GLI gets a multi-link. But we   don't see those kind of changes at the front of a  car because it's massive. This signals a sea change...   a time where the GT3 starts to dictate the whole  911 experience, and not the other way around.    And so i think it's time for us to take a look back  at the GT3 and where its entire name came from.   The GT3 was born with the 996 generation, when  Porsche decided to abandon competition in the   GT2 racing class where the 993 GT2 had competed.  Because the germans are so creative, these cars   are named exactly the same as the racing class in  which they compete. And in racing, don't forget, the   lower the number, the higher the performance — which is why Formula 1 is at the top. In Porsche speak, GT2 cars are turbocharged, GT3s are naturally  aspirated. The 996 GT3 used the famed Mezger   engine from the 993 GT2 and the GT1 Le Mans car,  just minus the turbos and tweaked to rev to  8200 rpm. The GT3 wasn't actually meant to be a  "thing" — it was just a homologation requirement:  to race in the GT3 class, Porsche had to  build some road cars in the race car spec. Those GT3s had no back seat, sunroof, air-  conditioning, rear speakers, or sound deadening.   And they were sold as a lightweight track  special. Somewhat later, the GT3 race car needed   some additional tweaks to be competitive, and to  homologate those upgrades, Porsche had to sell 200   upgraded cars for the street. That is this thing,  the GT3 RS. RS in German means "Rennsport," or "racing." Those Germans are so creative ‚ because this had  the upgrades the race car needed. But rather than   just slip those upgrades in unnoticed, Andy decided  to make a thing out of it: a thing with a wing!   The RS got a carbon fiber hood and plastic rear window for weight savings; a big wing; and carbon- ceramic   brakes — pretty heady stuff for back in the day.  As was the case with the original Carrera 2.7 RS,   Porsche's marketing people didn't think anyone  would want this car. In fact, they were concerned   they wouldn't be able to sell the 200 required  for homologation. But once the order books opened up,   the orders started flying in by the rear-engined  boatload. Porsche made as many of them as they   possibly could, but had to pull the plug after  like 670 units because all of the tooling for the   special parts wore out. It was only designed  to make 200. The next generation of 911 was the 997, and following the surprise success of the first GT3, Porsche smelled an opportunity and made   another one. Though the basic GT3 carried over  the 996's lightweight formula, adding in center-lock  wheels, it started out with that famed 3.6-liter Mezger, which then climbed to 3.8, and then   eventually to 4.0 liters, which was the biggest  engine ever put in a road-going factory 911.   This time, AP reserved a special treat for the RS:  it was based on the Carrera 4 widebody, giving it   two and a half inches of extra width. The engine  revved to 8500 rpm (are you detecting a theme?)   and it made 500 horsepower from just 4 liters. The steering? Perfect. The brakes? Perfect. The shifter? Perfect. The chassis balance? Perfect – or at least as perfect as you can get   without computer-controlled trickery. And that  engine? It was a fizzing, violent send off to   that magnificent Mezger! This is 911 distilled to  its core, with no sacrifices for creature comforts.   But more than that, it's not just any 911 — it's  one of the best driving cars of all time. Ever. The (R35) Nissan GT-R beat the GT3's lap time on  Porsche's turf at the Nürburgring, and, well,   let's just say that didn't go unnoticed by  the GT team in Weissach. Porsche declared war on   Nissan and this was the GT-R's H-Bomb. Known  to the outside world as the GT2 RS, it was   effectively a GT3 RS with two turbos slapped on  the back. Internally, it was known as Project 727,   named after the GT-R's lap time: 7 minutes 27  seconds, which Porsche was hell-bent on beating. The twin-turbo 3.6 made 620 horsepower, good for   205 mph, and it kissed the GT-R and its 7:27 auf Wiedersehen, with a lap time of 7:18.   What a fitting, happy ending for the second  generation of water-cooled 911. It was replaced   by the stunning 991 and when its GT3 arrived,  it arrived with a bunch of flaming pitchforks. See, the 991 GT3 was the first GT Car not to use  the Mezger engine — it had its own, new flat-six. It also had electric power steering, which on the base 911, sucked. To add insult to that injury, the GT3 also had rear wheel steering. Oh, and and there was no manual transmission! For the first time, the GT Car's   pursuit of speed meant technologies that implied  a reduction in involvement. The people revolted.   I was one of them. Andy fired back: "shut up and  drive the thing!" And so I did. And on track? Man, he was right. The 991 was a completely worthy  follow-up to all the previous GT3s. It was magic. AP's team fixed the 991's terrible steering.  The engine pulled like a monster to 9000 rpm,   making some of the most insane sounds ever  from a street-car engine. Its chassis was perfect — you never noticed the rear-steer or the PDK. Fact is, the 991 GT3 disappeared under you and let you concentrate on driving... exactly the way any race car should — electric gizmos or not. Still needs a manual! Look, I was lucky enough to have a very  heated debate with Andy Preuninger about this. And I like to think i won that debate.... ...mostly because I stunned him into silence by likening a driver's preference for transmission... to sexual orientation. Let's assume for a second you're into the ladies... someone could spend hours reciting all of the  logical, rational reasons why you should want   to sleep with Ryan Reynolds: he's so funny! He's so  talented! He looks just like that Jason Cammisa guy! All of that is true — but none of it matters. The  Germans keep doing the same thing to us with their   dual clutch automatics. I don't care what gear it's  in! I don't really care how quickly it shifts! I'm just not into it. Yanking on a paddle ain't gonna lock my torque converter if you know what I mean. The fact is: you're into what you're into and  it ain't up for discussion! In Andy's defense, there had only been enough budget to develop one transmission for the GT3... and as an offshoot of the Motorsport Division, the GT Team knew the PDK would be quicker around a track. So the automatic won. The screams for the manual transmission from  around the world were just as loud as the cries   for fast lap times. A committee of bean-counters  might have never understood this subtle difference   but Andy's a car guy — and he realized that there  are two different buyers for the GT Cars:   One, for whom the cars just need to be outrageously fast  — which of course they already were... ...and another, for whom, so long as the cars are fast enough, will accept no sacrifice at all for involvement . A thus the 911 R was born — for those in the latter camp. It was basically a   parts-bin special: GT3's narrow body with the GT3 RS's engine, polycarbonate windows, and a magnesium roof... ...without the spoilers, and with a manual! Once again, Porsche's marketing department didn't think anyone would care — and didn't think Porsche would be able to sell more than 500 of these worldwide. So they came up with the harebrained idea to  offer the five hundred 911 Rs to the 918 rich people   who had bought 918 Spyders, hoping half of them  would take the bait. Well, unfortunately almost all of them bought one — and that created quite the problem! Porsche was forced to make another run of almost 500 which was the most they could do before the factory had to shut down   for the upcoming model changeover — and even that  didn't come close to meeting demand. The 911 R was trading at two times its sticker price before the first one even left the production line! ...and guess who didn't make that money? Yep,  Porsche! Way to go, bean counters! The 911 R had two very distinct job: firstly, it shut the  committee up and told the marketing people to   go back to their cubicles and leave Andy alone.  And number two, it paid for the development of   a new manual transmission that he could  then use in other cars. (Andy is a genius!) From here on out, the 911 GT-Car lineup would  be split between the cars that prioritize   the experience like the GT3 Touring and those  that were all out lap time machines... Like this one! That slight oversimplification allows for  laptime champions like this: the 991.2 GT2 RS. Turbocharged to 700 horsepower with  all of the GT Car suspension tricks, nobody complained about it not having a manual.  Certainly not when it beat that old 7:27 lap time   by 40 seconds! That is a production car lap record —  one of many. The GT2 basically set a lap record everywhere it went. And this isn't a numb 'numbers-generator.' It does trade some of the naturally   aspirated drama for speed, but then it adds so  much more speed that that creates its own drama.   This car was conceived and engineered before the  successes of the GT3 Touring and the 911 R had   really sank in — to say nothing of the mid-engine  cars, the GT4 and Spyder. So I really think this   will be the last GT Car before Andy and his team  get carte blanche to do whatever they want... ...like replace the entire front suspension in a car.  Because while it's Porsche's job to make money,   and it's the 911's job to suck that money out of  the pockets of old men, it's Andy and his team's   job to make the 911s we really want. And the  911s we really want all say GT on the back. [To Cameraman] Okay so you're just gonna keep the Ferrari  framed out the entire time right? Yep, okay!   Action! I'm not some rich YouTuber asking you  to like and subscribe - hey up up up up up up up   up up up up up up - keep the Ferrari out! ...I'm an  automotive journalist asking you to like and   subscribe and that's because that's how YouTube  works. If you don't click those buttons, YouTube   doesn't know you liked what you've just seen  and isn't going to show you any more of it. And if you don't like what you've just seen, well, join the club! ...and by that i mean the Hagerty Driver's Club, which  gets you access to this award-winning magazine   as well as discounts on amazing stuff and [crash] if  you still don't like what you've seen, well then   just leave a nasty comment because that's how  the internet works! I need to go clean that up...
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Keywords: 992, 992 GT3, GT3, Preuninger, Camissa, Camisa, 996, 997, 991, GT2, GT2 RS, GT3 RS, 2022 GT3, Porsche GT, Weissach, RS 4.0, 2.7 RS, Andreas, PEC, PECLA, Acceleration, Hot Lap, Lap time, 0-60, Sound, Sexual Orientation, Manual Transmission, Stick shift, PDK, Laptime, 8200 rpm, 8500 rpm, 9000 rpm, 911R, GT3RS, GT2RS, 911, Porsche, Porsche911, 996.1, 996.2, 997.1, 997.2, 991.1, 991.2, Track, Racetrack, Lap, NĂĽrburgring, Nordschleife, R35, GT-R
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Length: 23min 19sec (1399 seconds)
Published: Thu Feb 18 2021
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