Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 Revealed: Specs and Features

Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0

Porsche has officially revealed to the world the car that we all knew was coming the limited-edition 911 GT3 RS 4.0.

As opposed to what yesterday’s leaked details mentioned, there shall be 600 items Porsche 911 GT3 RS4.0 produced (instead of 500), each powered by a naturally aspirated 4.0-litre 6-cylinder engine (the biggest engine fitted on a 911) which develops 500 HP (368 kW) @ 8,250 rpm and 460 Nm of torque @ 5,750 rpm.

Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0

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In case you do the maths meaning 125 HP (92 kW) per litre, so you already know this automotive is all about excessive performance. Sold exclusively with a 6-speed manual sports transmission. Considering Porsche will try to hold the load as little as doable, expect to see significantly improved performance numbers for the RS 4.0 version.the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 accelerates from zero to sixty two mph (zero to a hundred Km/h) in 3.9 seconds and may reach 124 mph (200 Km/h) in lower than 12 seconds.

Its Nurburgring-Nordschleife lap time is 7:27 minutes, and all these figures are ‘fruit of meticulously coordinated details’. The Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 comes with various motor racing derived suspension elements as well as a sequence of light weight equipment like carbon fibre seats are coated in black leather-based/pink Alcantara with ‘RS 4.0′ in pink on the headrests, while various other surfaces also get purple stitching Alcantara, and RS 4.0 logos, plastic rear windows, weight optimised flooring mats etc.

All these measures help the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 in tipping the scale at just 1,360 Kg (with a full tank), so should you do the maths once more, then you will notice that is energy to weight ratio is below 3 Kg per HP.

In order to highlight the link between the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and motor racing, Stuttgart’s newest creation comes with a series of trademark traits like the extensive monitor, the low heart of gravity, giant rear wing with adaptive aspect plates, the central twin exhaust pipes in addition to the lateral front air deflection vanes.

European prices for the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 will start at 178,596 Euro in Germany (including the 19 percent VAT) with gross sales expected to begin in July 2011.No words on the US prices just yet. That’s just the beginning, however. There are plenty of choices to select from that will absolutely spike that worth greater than you possibly can imagine.