2010 GT3 RS - Extreme Truth

[Jim Garfield]

Raj, is the rear wing removable? I somehow can't imagine driving on the street with that huge wing, but it would make sense to have it on for track days.

I like your idea of gray/black with silver wheels and graphic delete except on the engine cover.

It's an outrageously cool car. Just the thing for the Spring Rally.... I hope to get a ride at some point.

[cscrogham]

I don't think the wing is interchangeable, the RS has a unique are intake system that uses the wing base for double intakes (hence more power). I guess if you don't like it you could replace the wing elements and uprights, but since the wing is wider I doubt the earlier mounts will fit.

As far as color, I'll tell you what I did Raj. Grey/Black (even though it adds $3140!, but is the only color "exclusive" to the RS), with white gold accents. I thought about the silver wheels but I think that makes too many color changes. I also can't stand the red wheels, but that is just personal preference, the blue is a nice color but a little "soft" for me on the RS. the white is just too vanilla for a car like this, although the white/gold has a decent look. A few carbon bits here and there with the Grey/Black and gold, and I think it will look killer, we'll see!

This is the only car I have ever been interested in owning new (other than the racing cars I've bought to "race,") partly because this is the end of the road for me in pro racing with the 997, partly because this is the last Porsche before the VW takeover, and partly because it is just a cool car that may not ever be recreated this way again...

[John Z Goriup]

Raj,

Congratulations on your new car. Should be the ultimate watercooled rear engined 911 ever produced by PORSCHE,...... as we knew & loved them, before Piech starts tampering with them.

I thought about this from a standpoint of what I would do if I had the good fortune to be waiting for one of these, and offer the following thought, with tongue only partially in cheek.

When you get the car, take it to your garage before you put significant milage on it, put it up on blocks, remove wheels, take out the carpeting to expose maximum detail and have a sympathetic professional photographer who knows & understands exactly what you want to achieve take a couple of thousand shots of every visible detail, nut, bolt and washer & component that's visible without taking it apart so far that you may risk voiding the warranty. I mean everything..... a complete visual record of how it's put together.

That shouldn't take but a couple of days of concentrated work with equipment most pro photgraphers already have, then put it all on discs and a hard-drive & store for future use.

Think ahead 30 or 40 years from now, and think of the images of your presently new car as the equivalent of the 700-mile silver longhood everyone wants to dissect to see what they were like when nearly new ( which will never happen). Yours actually would be new. You could then enjoy the car as you normally would, having eternalized it on CDs as it actually was when brand-new, no matter what happens. This would provide future Porsche aficionados with a unique photographic record of what this significant 911 model was really like when it came from the showroom. (I was planning to do exactly that when a good friend of mine bought a new 997 GT3RSR last year, but Alas, before we could arrange it, the economy bit him in the butt and the car went away due to forced sale).

Best,

JZG

[Edwin Ek]

I think the slate grey color (non metallic) is awesome-- a 356 color. And the center locks are so nice.

[steven0401]

Raj,

There is a thread on Rennlist about Paint to Sample available for the RS. What color is your 08?

Steven

[Jim Garfield]

Very cool, I don't think that I've seen nicer colors. You need to head south and do some of those VA roads to break it in.

[karlusmagnus]

Stunnah !!! Great color Raj .... with a color like Oslo Blue we'll have to start calling you Raj Rasmussen or something nordic like that ;-)

[steven0401]

GREAT colors Raj! Now you have to DRIVE it! (my 07 just clicked over 20,000 miles!)

[Macroni]

Can't wait to see it. Calls for a cars and coffee gathering of the Philly/NJ/DE gang!

[craig912]

I still think Porsche copied me... ha

Here is a pic of my Carrera before the GT3RS came out:

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