Porsche 911 GT3 RS PDK
(Final) price: R4 220 000 0-100 km/h: 3,55 seconds Top speed: 312 km/h Power: 383 kW Torque: 470 N.m CAR fuel index: 15,36 L/100 km CO2 : 291 g/km
For most, the passing of a single second is inconsequential but, in the microcosm of the millisecond-increments of a second hand between indices on a watch face, our world buzzes with activity. Nowhere is this more graphically evident than mid-corner at the wheel of Porsche’s most focused take on its 911: the lightweight and razor-sharp GT3 RS.
Exhilarating. The finest sportscar I’ve driven? Quite likely Terence Steenkamp
Here the blink of an eye spans just 200 milliseconds and 15 milliseconds later your brain receives the image of the upcoming corner. The swirl of chemicals and neurons firing that bridge the gap between such stimuli as the pressure of your spine being pressed into the seatback and the howl of the thinly insulated engine over your shoulder takes an almost glacial 500 milliseconds to be processed into a conscious experience and you register that a downshifting tug on the left paddle of the dual-clutch
