05 GUNTHER WERKS SPEEDSTER
Rating 5.0
ENGINE 3996cc flat-6, DOHC, 24v
POWER 316kW @ 7800rpm
TORQUE 454Nm @ 6500rpm
0-100KM/H 3.6sec (est.)
WEIGHT 1256kg • PRICE $850,000
LIKE: Theatre; accessibility; dynamics; stamina; exclusivity
DISLIKE: Expensive; sold out; long-ish gear throw; on-road compromises
243, climbing out of Banning, up Mt San Jacinto before heading back over to Palm Springs. It’s warm, even for California, the unseasonable heat particularly welcome today, because, besides the rakish windscreen borrowed from a 964 Speedster, there’s no concessions to weather protection with the car I’m in. I first visited Gunther Werks back in 2017 to drive its 400R. That prototype car became the Coupe, a car that Gunther Werks is just now completing its 25-production run of, with each model individually commissioned by its
