Porsche 911 GT2 RS Unlike the previous 996-era GT2, this 997 variant was deemed intense enough to skip straight to the “RS” designation reserved for Porsche’s homologated street-legal racers.

before Porsche eventually introduced an entirely new power-folding canvas roof design for the 991 Targa. On the extreme end of the 996 spectrum sits the GT2. It’s essentially a hardcore Turbo ...

people thought Porsche had grown soft. And this was despite the fact that 996s were generally faster and more powerful than the 993s that preceded them. Nevertheless, the 996 GT3 and GT2 ...

All except this one, if reputations are to be believed. Everyone knows the Porsche 996 GT2 isn't civil. It's the devil child, or to use the more common colloquialism: the widowmaker. That's not ...

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Got yourself a Porsche Carrera, GT2, GT3, Carrera 4S or Turbo from 1997-2004? Those were the years of the 996, which marked a change from air-cooled to water-cooled. It was also the point at which ...

The Porsche GT2 is the basis of the model we are gawking at in this article. It was a high-performance offshoot of the Porsche 911 introduced in 1993 for the 993 generation to sat ...

Porsche reportedly built just under 1,300 units of the 996 GT2. It's not as rare as the 993 GT2, but it's still special by any standard. By comparison, Nissan built over 11,000 R34 GT-Rs ...

Based on the Porsche 911 Turbo, the 911 GT2 RS doesn’t really need much of ... and 432 pound-feet of torque at its max tune. The 996 generation also featured a 3.6-liter flat-six, though this ...

Porsche built GT2 versions of the 993, 996, and 997 generations of 911, before reviving the model in 2017, and upping the ante by dubbing it the GT2 RS. The 992 generation has yet to receive a GT2 ...

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